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Media Notes: An Interview With Outgoing White House Press Secretary Dana Perino

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays. ...more.

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Banking Regulator Played Advocate Over Enforcer

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

When Countrywide Financial felt pressured by federal agencies charged with overseeing it, executives at the giant mortgage lender simply switched regulators in the spring of 2007. ...more.

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Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from fossil fuels. ...more.

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As President Bush's Term Comes to an End, Some Well-Known Offenders Seek Pardons

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

With a backlog of applications piled up at the Justice Department, high-profile criminals and their well-connected lawyers increasingly are appealing directly to President Bush for special consideration on pardons and clemency, according to people involved in the process. ...more.

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Obama Sets Expansive Goal for Jobs

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama is developing a plan to create or preserve 2.5 million jobs over the next two years by spending billions of dollars to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize public schools, and construct wind farms and other alternative sources of energy. ...more.

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Pollsters Debate America's Political Realignment

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

The 2008 election is history, but the battle over what it meant has just begun. ...more.

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Some in the Arab World Worry that Clinton Would Be More Hawk Than Dove

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the woman to whom he appears likely to give the job sometime after Thanksgiving. ...more.

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Obama Names White House Communications Staff

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama continued building his White House staff yesterday, naming his Senate and campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs as press secretary and filling two other key slots on his communications team. ...more.

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Obama Picks N.Y. Fed President Geithner as Treasury Secretary

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama has selected New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy F. Geithner as Treasury secretary, handing the post to a primary architect of the Bush administration's response to the financial crisis, according to Democratic and industry officials yesterday. ...more.

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In Washington, You Never Know Who's Going to End Up Being Very Important

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

Remember that reception you went to at Brookings a few years ago after that riveting panel on minority rights in Tajikistan? Or maybe it was East Kazakhstan? There was a guy, Todd something-or-other, who was right behind you in the drinks line? The one with the well-cropped brown beard, brown hair,... ...more.

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