By Mark Z. Barabak
1:11 PM PDT, May 27, 2009
Reporting from Las Vegas — When pundits and reporters set out to chart the progress of the Obama administration at 100 days, some in the White House disparaged the exercise as a foolish contrivance focused on a meaningless marker. But today the White House conjured up its [...]
by Peyton Vantrease, Nashville Nonpartisan Examiner
Tonight President Obama goes on T.V. to sell his stimulus package to the public. You would think that giving away over 700 billion would be an easy sell, but up until now it has not been. Just as this bill went thru the House and Senate to get approved with [...]
From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
CNN) – Arizona Sen. John McCain did not pull any punches in assessing a major milestone in his former rival’s nascent presidency.
Watch: McCain on State of the Union
“It was a bad beginning,” McCain said Sunday of the legislative process that resulted in the $787 billion stimulus bill recently passed by [...]
By Michael A. Fletcher and William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 17, 2009; 5:08 PM
DENVER, Feb. 17 — President Obama ventured 1,700 miles from Washington Tuesday to sign into law a $787 billion stimulus package aimed at reviving the nation’s moribund economy and “keeping the American dream alive in our time.”
Obama signed the massive, [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus bill into law in Denver, Colorado, calling it the first step to pave the way to long-term growth.
The sweeping economic rescue package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is designed to jolt the ailing U.S. [...]
