Day: January 29, 2009

A growing list of manufacturers and trade associations have joined consumer advocates in begging for stricter regulations on food companies.

A newly empowered Democratic majority brushed aside objections with a bill to insure four million children.

For the second time, the Senate unanimously passed a bill Thursday night to delay the transition to digital television by four months in order to give consumers more time to get ready.

President Obama has picked Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, a former top military commander in Afghanistan, to be the next United States ambassador to Kabul.

After working as Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s chief of staff and then a consultant and law professor, Edward E. Kaufman has returned to Washington to fill the Senate seat vacated by the vice president.

The administration had hoped to give itself time to decide how to prosecute Guantánamo detainees.

Biden said ‘no judgment” has been made on whether the Chinese have manipulated their currency.

People close to the Obama web team say they’ve been scrambling in the face of problems.

Daschle adviser Mark B. Childress is the second lobbyist to land in the top ranks of the HHS department.

By focusing on labor and the middle class, Obama is addressing a cornerstone of his campaign platform.