Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has still not made a decision about whether to lift her hold on President Obama’s nominee to head the White House Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew, her office told TWI today.
“There’s nothing new to report at this time,” Landrieu spokeswoman Ellie Atkins said More…
The Obama administration announced today it is lifting the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that was imposed in the aftermath of the BP oil spill. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave few details about how soon drilling would resume in the Gulf.
Salazar said he believes More…
Shorter GOP: there has never been a more important time than the aftermath of a failed terrorist attack on an airplane to ensure the Transportation Security Administration doesn’t have a leader.
Apparently someone told Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) that it’s bad optics to keep a hold on Errol Southers, the More…
For all of the frenzy over Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comment that “the system worked” after the failed bombing on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, not many people have pointed out that “the system” is currently without a permanent Transportation Security Administration administrator. As Spencer noted, More…
How long will Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) go after the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 incident before allowing the Transportation Security Administration to have someone running the place? Chris Good at The Atlantic has a statement from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the House homeland security committee, calling for More…
Following up on Daphne’s piece about the hold-up on Dawn Johnsen’s nomination to head the Office of Legal Counsel, this Roll Call story by Jessica Brady got published on Saturday, so it hasn’t received much attention. It should. Regina Benjamin, the president’s nominee for surgeon general, More…
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