Sentences with phrase «obama white»

«There's nothing ever that I was even remotely part of that saw this as a windfall,» said former Obama White House and Treasury housing adviser Michael Stegman, who authored the email summarizing the discussion between Geithner and former FHFA Director Edward DeMarco.

In interviews this week, former Obama White House and Treasury officials also rejected the shareholders» characterization of the material, standing behind their long - stated reasoning for the so - called «sweep» of the companies» profits to the Treasury.

He led efforts in the Obama White House to identify and scale more effective social solutions, advancing priorities to strengthen communities and enable upward economic mobility.

As a career coach / writer / entrepreneur who started a business with less than nothing in 2008, and today has coached people around the world, and in the Obama White House, I'm passionate about the life - changing effects of small business.

The panel will be former Sen. Rick Santorum, R - Pa.; former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D - Mich.; Karine Jean - Pierre, former Obama White House official and senior adviser for MoveOn.org; and Bryan Lanza, former communications director for President Donald J. Trump's transition team.

This is exactly what Cass Sunstein did when he oversaw the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama White House (Obama subsequently created a Social and Behavioral Sciences Team).

Take a cue from the women in the Obama White House who grew tired of being ignored in meetings and other people taking credit for their ideas.

A little less than a year ago, The Washington Post made a splash with an article about how the women in the Obama White House were helping raise each other's professional profiles using a tool called amplification.

Do not read Jeffrey Toobin's latest book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, if you want to hold on to any illusions about the sanctity of the United States Supreme Court.

«This recent review by an office within the Obama White House goes to show that even his Administration can not support EPA's practice.

So how does all this connect to the Obama White House?

Now this man with his record of inaccurate predictions is in charge of scientific predictions on climate in the Obama White House.

WMR has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that the Obama White House and...

The EPA and the Obama White House have denied that the real objective of new regulations on carbon and mercury emission is to shut down coal plants.

Holdren is in a position as Science Czar in the Obama White House to try and make this prophecy a reality.

The consensus is that the Obama White House is insular, isolated, inward - looking, focused on the President's personal image and ineffective in foreign policy.

Last week I spoke with Elana Schor of Greenwire about the Obama White House and Organizing for America's strategy to pre-empt efforts by conservatives to undermine support for the proposed EPA limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

I've asked Hansen periodically if he's been consulted by the Obama White House in its first two years.

Appointed the green jobs advisor to the Obama White in 2009, he helped run the inter-agency process that oversaw $ 80 billion in green energy recovery spending.

The book vividly reveals the layers of financial and political interests that can eviscerate environmental legislation and describes the tussle within the Obama White House over how hard to push on climate.

Now a much - discussed report by the inspector general of the Department of Interior shows how officials in the Obama White House were responsible for a last - minute change in the language of a document on deep - water drilling safety that formed the basis for President Obama's controversial decision in June to enact a six - month deep - water drilling moratorium (the move was more politically harmful than economically damaging, in the end).

I thought the Obama White House had brought something useful to the budget debate with its visual depiction of United States spending — which revealed the profound growth in politically untouchable programs and the almost invisible dimensions of programs on education, research, innovation, development assistance and the like.

Musical Diplomacy on «Soundcheck Smackdown» Vermeer's «Milkmaid» at the Met Art in the Obama White House Museum of Arts and Design Opens New Met Director, Brian Lehrer Show Tom Campbell Named Met Director Whitney Museum's Expansion Fake Coptic Art at Brooklyn Museum Spring ’08 Art Auctions Should Veterans or Newcomers Lead Arts Organizations?

Music and many other forms of art have been ever present in the Obama White House, bringing it to life as President and First Lady welcomed a broad swath of Americans to what they always emphasized is the People's House.

It is the art that rings the most clarion bell of modernity in the Obama White House.

Several luminous shots that Opie took of Lake Michigan hung in the Obama White House.

AR: Oh yeah, you can look it up with [Obama White House press secretary] Robert Gibbs.

Portuguese Water Dogs have become popular in this country thanks to their intelligence, trainability, and lovingly effervescent personality, and the fact that it was the official dog of the Obama White House Administration certainly doesn't hurt.

Well the Obama White - House falls into the latter category when...

In Treating People Well, former social secretaries Lea Berman, who served the George W. Bush White House, and Jeremy Bernard, who served the Obama White House, share their stories.

(District of Columbia) With the curtain fast falling on the Obama White House, a broad coalition of school officials is taking one last stab at rolling back a proposed rule over supplanting federal education money.

Then there are the teacher cuts — between 2008 and 2012, more than 300,000 education jobs were lost, according to the Obama White House, a number that's recovered only slightly since then.

It was staunchly opposed by the Obama White House and hasn't been fully reauthorized in six years.

-- Heather Foster, who previously worked in the Obama White House's Office of Engagement and the Education Department, is now a vice president at Widmeyer Education.

Of course, nationally, teachers» unions have also clashed with the Obama White House.

In a few places, it has managed to leverage the court orders or federal agreements to fight inequities that otherwise would be hard to remedy — though plenty would fault the Obama White House for not doing enough to fight resegregation and the lack of opportunity afforded to many students.

It's obvious that Duncan singled out Texas to skewer a Republican who has leveled his own heavy criticism on the Obama White House.

«His work with Senator Kennedy on the Senate's HELP Committee, followed by his extended service in the Obama White House on matters of education, has positioned Roberto as one of the most influential players on the federal education scene.

It comes with about 20 minutes of deleted scenes, all good stuff; in one of them Nye visits the Obama White House for science fair!

In an interview with CNN at that time, Ellsberg noted that the crimes committed by the Nixon administration against him 40 years ago could now be carried out under the cover of law by the Obama White House.

It turned out the phrases about little water impact had been added after a meeting with officials at the Obama White House, which strongly backed the natural gas industry.

Karl Hausker, a policy analyst at the nonprofit World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., says the new study shows that although the Barack Obama White House has made progress over 8 years, «there's more the next president is going to have to do to get there.»

One prominent Democrat party official disagreed saying Blake had a good shot because of his national network and work in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement in the Obama White House.

Ronnie Cho, a former Obama White House staffer who attracted high profile support but on Monday had to backtrack from a claimed endorsement by Yankee great Derek Jeter, came in third - trailing Rivera and attorney Mary Silver.

It would also be an equally huge embarrassment for the Obama White House.

Washington (CNN)-- A déjà vu moment for the Obama White House and a number of interesting 2014 election dynamics closed our Sunday Inside Politics discussion.

Even the Obama White House, no friend of McCain, pounced on the opportunity to fan the flames of a controversy that Democrats hope will damage the Republican political brand.

Although President Barack Obama remains in office for a few more weeks, Buffalo's mayor has made his final scheduled visit to an Obama White House.

You'd think a former attorney for the Obama White House now serving as deputy counsel to the mayor of New York would know enough to wait until results are in...

He also was an intern for three months in the Obama White House.