The Prowler
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Shauna Daly, who for about a month was ensconced in the White House Counsel’s Office as research director there, didn’t stay very long in that position. It was announced late last week that Daly was leaving her White…
Collateral Damage Some Obama Administration insiders, including White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and environmental czar Carol Browner, face potential exposure for activities they undertook during the Clinton Administration, thanks to President Obama’s repeal of the 2001 executive order…
The White House is attempting to jettison Robert Wolf, chief executive of UBS America, from its announced economic advisory board, after Wolf’s bank agreed to pay $780 million in fines and to disclose hundreds of U.S. clients who attempted to…
SCREENING OBAMA One wouldn’t know it from reading the Washington Post or New York Times, but some inside the White House don’t think that President Barack Obama hit a home run with his first national press conference last week. “It…
White House sources say that President Barack Obama has locked in on Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen as one of two top candidates to replace former Sen. Tom Daschle as his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary. The other potential…
According to a member of the transition team that oversaw recruitment and initial vetting for undersecretary and deputy undersecretary positions at the Treasury Department, the Obama White House is attempting to slip “at least two” nominees through the process who…
Senior House Democrat leadership staff, on orders from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are working with the Obama Administration to restore many of the cuts made by Senate negotiators last weekend. “Both the White House and us think we can get those…
As just posted on our main page: The 16-member Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which President Barack Obama announced late last week, was selected almost exclusively by Obama White House advisers, and features only two members that the board’s chairman, former…
The 16-member Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which President Barack Obama announced late last week, was selected almost exclusively by Obama White House advisers, and features only two members that the board’s chairman, former Fed chief Paul Volcker, was allowed to…
