Day: May 4, 2009

The proposed tax overhaul, aimed at benefits enjoyed by those harboring cash in offshore accounts, could help raise $210 billion, the administration estimates.

Justices ruled that the federal government has been going too far in using identity-theft laws against undocumented workers.

Slow sales of Chrysler vehicles around the country suggest that few were moved by the president’s plea to help Detroit’s automakers by buying an American car.

The Obama administration seems ready to argue that the financial system is healthier than many investors fear.

It is high time we as Americans came to grips with the unprincipled invasion of the American Military by fundamentalist Christians who want to turn it into a force for Christian proselytizing not withstanding the Military’s flaccid prohibition against it.

Interviews with more than a dozen former Bush administration officials shed new light on a battle over C.I.A. methods.

Washington is only where Justice Souter goes for his “annual intellectual lobotomy.” At home, he reads history.

Team Obama has cast his initiatives on health care, energy, education and the auto and financial industries as responses to the downturn, but time is not on his side politically.

President Obama discusses how his policies on schools, energy and health care might change daily life in America.

SPEAKERS: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER [*] GEITHNER: Good morning. Mr. President, when you took office, you promised to reform our tax code so that it would be more simple and more fair for hardworking Americans. And you promised to ensure that our tax …