On the campaign trail, President-elect Barack Obama said his administration would help small family farms, end childhood hunger and upgrade roads and bridges in rural areas.
Barack Obama’s incoming administration has begun to draw on the high-tech organizational tools that helped get him elected to lay the groundwork for an attempt to restructure the U.S. health-care system.
Ladies and gentlemen! Start your lobbying engines — it may already be too late — for that cushy ambassadorship you’ve always dreamed of. The incoming Obama administration has helpfully notified all politically appointed ambassadors that they must vacate their posts as of Jan. 20, the day Presid…
The Nov. 26 terrorist attacks on Mumbai underscore the need for U.S. authorities to counter the security threat posed by small boats, strengthen the U.S. Coast Guard and keep the Federal Emergency Management Agency within the Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Michael Chertoff said yester…
The world’s richest technology entrepreneur — and leading philanthropist — came to Washington yesterday with a simple message for President-elect Barack Obama: Increase spending.
A bipartisan panel of foreign policy experts, including some associated with the incoming Obama administration, has recommended changes in the White House national security apparatus that would provide the president and his staff with new tools to ensure interagency cooperation.
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey asserted yesterday that the “level of cooperation and communication is very high” between his team and the transition group for President-elect Barack Obama.
CHICAGO, Dec. 3 — With his choice of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as commerce secretary, President-elect Barack Obama broke with tradition, putting a longtime public servant in a position that has recently been held by private-sector executives.
A group of retired military officers opposed to harsh interrogation techniques sanctioned by the Bush administration met with members of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team yesterday to press the incoming administration to establish a single, internationally accepted standard for the…
Kathleen Sebelius Current job: Governor of Kansas. Credentials: Eight years in the Kansas legislature; two terms as state insurance commissioner; now in her second and final term as governor. Served as chairwoman of the Democratic Governors Association, a group Bill Clinton once led. Gave the Dem…