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«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.
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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.
Former Obama Official Admits Facebook Allowed Obama Campaign to Mine Data Because «They Were On Our Side» It's no secret that Facebook is shutting down traffic to conservative websites.
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would've allowed someone else to do — because they were...
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.
Ken Strasma, a former Obama campaign staffer, confirmed in an interview with BuzzFeed News that he had been advising Wylie and Eunoia, noting that he thought Wylie's idea was mainly going to be applied to «predictive analytics for fashion.»
Last fall, in response to increasing scrutiny surrounding its role as a central instrument of Russian election interference, Facebook hired top aides to former Obama Administration officials (Biden, Kerry), as well as the former chief of staff for Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.
There's also another link between Holder and the ride - hailing giant: Former Obama strategist David Plouffe is now a senior adviser to the company and a member of its board.
Hosted by Jon Favreau (not that Jon Favreau), Jon Lovett (not Jon Lovitz), Tommy Vietor, and Dan Pfeiffer — all former Obama staffers and the brain trust behind Crooked Media itself — the show promises «a no - bullshit conversation about politics.»
In recent years, WilmerHale has stocked up on former high - ranking US government officials such as Mueller for its ranks, including former Obama - era Deputy Attorney General David Ogden and a Bush - era ambassador to Germany, Robert Kimmitt.
Gore, who owns CurrentTV and appeared alongside former Obama administration «green jobs czar» Van Jones, explained -LSB-...]
The bottom - up approach to handling reform objectives was commented upon favorably even by the former Obama regulatory czar and noted expert on administrative law, Cass Sunstein, when on March 3 he wrote in Bloomberg, «Because the White House itself lacks the capacity to scrutinize the stock of existing regulations, the Trump administration was smart to call for task forces within each agency to do that — and to require them to engage with the public to see which regulations are really causing trouble.»
Because it produces roughly half the CO2 emissions of coal, natural gas has been considered as a bridge fuel to zero - carbon energy supplies by Al Gore, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Resources for the Future, former Environmental Protection Agency head and former Obama climate chief Carol Browner, and energy experts across the political spectrum.
In a recent NYT op ed, Harvard Law professor and former Obama official Cass Sunstein cited Ronald Reagan, of all figures, as inspiration for more federal regulation on the transportation and energy sectors.
As former Obama administration EPA head Lisa Jackson tells the Washington Post, «The time for debate on climate change has passed.»
The first thing George W. Bush's chief political strategist Karl Rove said, in response to American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) CEO Denise Bode's request that he and former Obama spokesperson and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs try to find bipartisan ground in support of the wind industry, was that he hoped it would stay bipartisan because they were sitting on a white sofa that would be ruined by red blood.
And support for fracking isn't split down party lines — Moniz has called fracking safe and «a bridge to a low - carbon future,» a finding supported by several Environmental Protection Agency investigations and former Obama Environmental Protection Administrator Lisa Jackson.
At MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning (video below), former Obama car czar Steve Ratner discussed several other economic trends that might tell us more about the overall economic story.
I reached out on the same question to David Sandalow, a former Obama administration climate official who now runs a U.S. - China Energy and Climate program at Columbia University.
To learn more, I urge you to read «The History and Future of the Clean Energy Ministerial,» an essay by David Sandalow, a former Obama administration energy official who was involved in the early days of the ministerial and now, as a fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, offers five ways to boost the impact of these meetings.
School reform advocates such as former Obama education secretary Arne Duncan called Henderson one of their own and generally joined in the cheering.
Indeed, as the speechwriter for former Obama secretary of education Arne Duncan has written, the GI Bill was «essentially a government educational voucher with no strings attached.»
A former Obama administration appointee, she served as a communications director for the U.S. Department of Transportation's third - largest agency, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
The Incite Agency, founded by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and former Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, will lead a national public relations drive to support a series of lawsuits aimed at challenging tenure, seniority and other job protections that teachers unions have defended ferociously.
«My hope is that she has a very open mind... and doesn't think the Michigan approach is the right one,» said Peter Cunningham, a former Obama Education Department official who is now executive director of the Education Post, a nonprofit group that supports charter schools.
In January, the America - hating former Obama pastor was asked to speak at a breakfast co-hosted by the Chicago Teachers Union to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
Seven years ago, former Obama EdSec Arne Duncan infamously called Hurricane Katrina good for NOLA schools.
The report, written by former Obama administration official and current CAP Executive Vice President Carmel Martin, CAP's teacher policy director Lisette Partelow and CAP's vice president of education policy Catherine Brown, points out different ways to make teaching a more desirable profession.
Voters have a choice between Thurmond, the status quo candidate embraced by the teachers» unions, and Tuck, the change advocate supported by education reformers like former Obama administration Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and retired Rep. George Miller.
The head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, a former Obama education appointee, declared that a return by the Department of Education to its historic routines constituted an unprecedented assault on civil rights (for a sense of how outlandish this attack really is, peruse this Wall Street Journal op - ed or this piece in Education Next).
The head of the Education Trust, a former Obama official, denounced Trump's proposed budget (which called for trimming national K - 12 spending by something less than one percent) as «an assault on the American dream.»
When asked whose thinking had influenced the plan, the senior campaign official listed former Obama higher education officials (including Rohit Chopra, formerly of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Bob Shireman, who oversaw many of Obama's first - term higher education accomplishments) and college presidents who have long supported the administration's focus on holding colleges accountable, such as SUNY's Nancy Zimpher.
That's precisely what Bellwether analyst (and former Obama administration official) Chad Aldeman surmised, telling Education Week's Alyson Klein that they didn't have a choice, that the new guidance is «using the same language and tools that NCLB allowed.
When former Obama Secretary of Education John King laments that we're having a «conversation about cuts rather than a conversation about investment,» I can only wonder what he said as the Obama administration was supersizing the Bush administration's effort to max out the nation's credit card.
Russlynn Ali, the former Obama administration staffer who has headed up the XQ Super School Project, says she was astonished by the response it drew and the creative optimism that it seemed to represent.
My Bellwether colleague (and former Obama administration official), the always straight - shooting Chad Aldeman, called it a «big ole nothing burger» that had «no real ambitions» for 95 percent of the nation's schools.
Former Obama staffer Chad Aldeman took to the pages of Education Next to observe that Obama's aggressive push to revamp teacher evaluation turned into something of a hash in an unusually honest mea culpa (full disclosure: I'm an executive editor with EdNext).
An Israeli intelligence firm was reportedly hired last year to compile background dossiers on several former Obama administration officials, including Colin Kahl, seen here in 2012.
Some of the most successful men in the world are yogis; billionaire investors Bill Gross and Guy Hands, former Obama chief - of - staff Rahm Emanuel, Russell Simmons, and even Steve Jobs (supposedly «the only book Jobs had downloaded on his iPad 2 was Yogananda's Autobiography Of A Yogi»).
And the APS's route to its 2015 statement has been dogged by controversy and its own internal politics, including a coup d'état that led to the resignation of Steve Koonin, the head of the climate statement review committee and a former Obama administration official.
His words drew immediate pushback from Republicans, conservative bloggers and even former Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod, who said the Vermont senator had been «a little tin - eared» (ClimateWire, Nov. 16).
The authors found that, controlling for other factors, such as whether respondents liked or disliked Clinton and Trump, former Obama voters who believed one or more of the fake news articles were 3.9 times more likely to defect from the Democratic ticket in 2016, including abstention.
David Chen (NYT) reports tonight that former Obama aide and former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion has left the Democratic party to run as a Fusion candidate for Ma...
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.
Incumbent Fernando Cabrera, a stridently anti-gay minister who once traveled to Uganda to offer his support to homophobic forces there pushing a death penalty bill for gay people, bested challenger Randy Abreu, a former Obama administration energy official, by nearly 20 percentage points.
David Chen (NYT) reports tonight that former Obama aide and former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion has left the Democratic party to run as a Fusion candidate for Mayor of New York next year.
Former Obama administration official Ammar Campa - Najjar raised $ 176,000 and reported $ 299,000 in cash on hand at the end of the fourth quarter.
Top cop Bill Bratton named a former Obama - administration official as his second - in - command Wednesday — a pick that Mayor de Blasio reluctantly approved to avoid a fight so soon after their...
Former Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan threw Mayor de Blasio a curveball Tuesday when he joined Hizzoner on a teleconference to back renewal of mayoral control of schools — but said he also supports adding charter schools.
Two names mentioned as possible challengers — Lillian Perez (chief of staff for Sen. Eric Schneiderman) and Haile Rivera (a local activist and former Obama organizer)-- have said they're not looking to run against Espada.