From ABC News:
The Obama administration’s 7 billion stimulus bill directly saved or created about 650,000 jobs as of the end of last month, administration officials announced this morning.
The numbers come from Congressionally-mandated reports submitted earlier this month by tens of thousands of state and local governments, private companies, colleges, universities, and community organizations nationwide, [...]
Not a moment passes at Organizing For America without volunteers and leaders across the country taking their creativity to the next level. Last week, during our October 20 Day of Action, we had students launching ideas in Ohio and neighbors working together in Michigan to create one of the strongest advocacy pushes in the history [...]
Its fall harvest time and we here at MOW can’t get enough of the First Lady’s garden. We’ve been down from day one; from the planting of seeds used at Monticello to the very first harvest and the whole toxic sludge debacle. I was excited to see the First Lady and her team of student [...]
Speaker Pelosi unveiled the House’s final version of health insurance reform legislation – The Affordable Health Care For America Act – in front of the U.S. Capitol this morning, marking another historic step in the on-going effort to pass reform this year.
The bill delivers on President Obama’s goals for reform: increased security and stability [...]
From the New York Times:
When the Obama administration proposed canceling a host of expensive weapons systems last spring, some of the military industry’s allies in Congress assumed, as they had in the past, that they would have the final say.
But as the president signed a 0 billion military policy bill on Wednesday, it was [...]
An article written by Jodi Kantor, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times, gives yet another look at FMOTUS. Peppered in with the standard Barack and Michelle stories are new ones about the couple on the campaign trail and their lives now at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Another Washington dusk, another motorcade, another intimate evening played out in public [...]
Posted by Gina.
Whew Chile! Bonnie Erbe is back on the march and this time she went IN! She went in all the way! In a post that is critical of President Obama’s golfing and basketball activities that do not include women, Ms. Erbe compared Presiden Barack Obama to former NC Senator Jesse Helms and [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama was greeted by cheering Yankees fans on the opening night of the World Series in the Bronx last night. Joined by Second Lady, Dr Jill Biden, Mrs Obama escorted legendary Yankee’s catcher and World War II veteran Yogi Berra to the pitcher’s mound for the pregame ceremony in honor of US [...]
Today President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, legislation that will extend new federal protections to people who are victims of violent crime because of their sex or sexual orientation. It is an update to the federal hate crimes statute that Congress first passed in 1968. [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
The Obama administration launched a clean-energy blitz Tuesday, with President Barack Obama sweeping into this Central Florida hamlet to unveil .4 billion in stimulus grants for advanced electricity-grid projects and Vice President Joe Biden traveling to his home state of Delaware to open an electric-automobile plant.
The administration Tuesday released a list [...]
