Day: February 8, 2009

President Obama will travel this week in an effort to build support for his economic stimulus plan.

Administration officials said the new bailout was likely to depend on private investors to purchase the toxic assets that wiped out the capital of many banks.

Some states have objected to a federal program targeting sex offenders, saying their own laws are more effective.

Federal officials and the Washington attorney general are investigating the promoter of a canceled inaugural ball.

Congressional aides worked to identify differences between the House and Senate stimulus packages in advance of final negotiations.

The economic stimulus legislation churning its way through Congress is only the first step of the Great National Bailout of 2009.

Representative John D. Dingell, the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives in history, offered insight on the old Washington realities that President Obama has collided with.

FEMA has denied nearly 650,000 applications for housing aid since Hurricane Ike hit southeastern Texas, finding that nearly 90 percent of claimants were ineligible for aid.

A movement hopes to save from demolition hundreds of buildings built by the Works Progress Administration.

Steele says the economic situation is, in part, due to Bill Clinton’s administration.