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The Hill
February 25, 2018
On Tuesday, the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) put out a detailed 568-page analysis of the Trump administration's economic outlook. ... The U.S. economy grew at a 2.3 percent pace in 2017, up from 1.5 percent in 2016 and only 0.1 percent shy of the Obama White House's projection.
Monitor
February 25, 2018
During the Obama administration, nine cases involving whistleblowers and leakers were prosecuted, compared to only three by all previous administrations combined. According to The New York Times, the Justice Department under Obama monitored journalists' phone records and issued subpoenas to tryÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
February 24, 2018
TRUMP on the Obama-era mandate to buy health insurance or pay a fine: "That's gone. ... compared with $208 billion a year for President Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cut package, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget of the Senate proposal that shapedÃÂ ...
E&E News
February 23, 2018
A federal court dealt another major blow last night to the Trump administration's attempts to unwind Obama-era restrictions on methane emissions from the ... "New facts or evidence coming to light, considerations that BLM left out in its previous analysis, or some other concrete basis supported in the recordÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 23, 2018
Former Obama advisers defend White House vetting system after Trump criticism ... I helped oversee the Obama admin processing of thousands of nominees and officials during the busiest two years of appointments (2009-01), including weighing in on clearance issues," Norm Eisen, Obama's former ethicsÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 18, 2018
But critics of the Iran nuclear agreement and the Obama administration's engagement with Iran accused the White House of emboldening Tehran by flooding its economy with cash. Trump has frequently criticized the Iran nuclear agreement, which he has called the “worst deal ever negotiated.” In JanuaryÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
January 31, 2018
The agency announced in December that it was discontinuing the Obama administration's practice of fully wiping out the loans of students deceived by the ... Critics said the idea of partial relief was unfair since thousands of Corinthian students had already had their loans canceled in full under PresidentÃÂ ...
FiveThirtyEight
January 31, 2018
In September, I came up with an informal list of Obama's top 10 policy achievements, relying on the Obama White House's descriptions of his key accomplishments, several media outlets' lists of Obama's biggest successes, the views of authors of books on the Obama presidency, and my own analysis.
CNN
January 31, 2018
Just ahead of the inauguration last year, a survey from the analysis firm IHS Conflict Monitor estimated the group had lost nearly a quarter of its territory over ... While the anti-ISIS effort began under the Obama administration, military officials and diplomats credit Trump with delegating more of the day-to-dayÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 31, 2018
But he is reaping the advantage of a strategy begun in the Obama administration. American-led forces had already wrested more than 13,000 square miles of territory from the group by the time Mr. Trump was elected in November 2016. Things accelerated after he gave American commanders moreÃÂ ...
Concord Monitor
January 30, 2018
Also witnessing the address in person, as guests of the state's two congresswomen, will be an activist aiding sexual assault survivors and the leading ethics lawyer during the Obama administration turned vocal Trump critic. In dozens of campaign stops in New Hampshire during the marathon 2016ÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
January 30, 2018
An expose in Politico by Josh Meyer entitled “The secret backstory of how the Obama administration let Hezbollah off the hook” makes a damning .... Several critics raised the issue of DEA's competence and sense of the big picture—a criticism that smaller agencies often face when seeking to take the leadÃÂ ...
Yale Environment 360
January 29, 2018
Unfortunately, all the coverage has done little to slow the campaign at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Interior to relax critical protections and dismantle former President Obama's environmental legacy. By one recent count, the Trump administration has overturnedÃÂ ...
wtvr.com
January 5, 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration issued guidance to the food industry Thursday detailing how it plans to enforce the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which was signed into law during the Obama administration. The agency characterizes the act, which is intended to make the nation's food supplyÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 5, 2018
Mr. Sessions has put the industry on notice, said the group's president, Kevin Sabet, a prominent critic of legalized marijuana and former drug-control policy official in the Obama administration. Mr. Sabet referred to marijuana sellers as the “new tobacco industry,” and said the drug posed more harm to brainÃÂ ...
Governing
January 5, 2018
The move by Sessions, a long-time critic of legal marijuana, frees up federal prosecutors to crack down on marijuana-related offenses in their districts as ... In 2013, the Obama administration issued the Cole memo, named after then-Deputy Attorney General Jim Cole, urging federal prosecutors not to useÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 5, 2018
During the delay, he fears that the Trump administration will entirely undo the rule, which has been a goal of many Republicans in Congress ever since it was adopted. Critics of the rule — including Ben Carson, before he became HUD secretary — argue that it amounts to an aggressive intrusion by theÃÂ ...
Politico
January 4, 2018
The White House has seized on anti-government protests rocking Iran as glittering vindication of its criticisms of the Obama administration's approach to the ... establishment, as well as with many prominent Democrats who have shared the administration's position, albeit without the criticism of Obama.
Roll Call
December 31, 1999
“Thank you to @foxandfriends for the great timeline on all of the failures the Obama Administration had against Russia, including Crimea, Syria and so much more,” Trump tweeted to kick off a week in which both chambers of Congress are in recess. “We are now starting to win again!” Trump added.
Lawfare (blog)
November 13, 2017
The Obama administration, picking up on Bush-era arguments, maintained in 2009 that the 2001 AUMF covers “associated forces” of al Qaeda, ...
The Guardian
November 13, 2017
Critics were quick to point out that Azar was at Eli Lilly when the price ... the Obama administration, an outspoken critic of Trump's policies, said ...
The Morning Sun
November 13, 2017
Analysis: Trump's incoherent message to America's allies in Asia ... Instead, the Trump administration has offered up conflicting versions of its Asia ... the Obama administration, suggests that the U.S. and China should form an ...
Christian Science Monitor
November 13, 2017
But critics say Trump appears to be guided more by his personal .... after the Obama administration's “muddled approach” to the human rights ...
PolitiFact
November 10, 2017
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, makes a claim about the Obama administration at about the .... The analysis doesn't mention background checks directly.
Bloomberg BNA
October 26, 2017
A deep distrust of the cost-benefit analysis of regulations used by the Obama administration is in large part supporting President Donald ...
The Hill (blog)
September 18, 2017
Obama received criticism earlier this year after it was reported that he ... from the Obama administration, where she was secretary of State.
NBCNews.com
September 18, 2017
Analysis: LGBTQ Advocates Sound Alarm Over Trump's Judicial Picks ... judicial picks to garner harsh criticism from LGBTQ advocates. ... “In 2014, President Obama nominated five people to vacancies on the Court of Federal Claims. ... who accused the Trump administration of “seeking out” individuals withÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
September 18, 2017
—Angry at the Obama administration for not vetoing a U.N. resolution that criticized Israel for its settlement activity, the soon-to-be-presidentÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 17, 2017
The museum is facing withering criticism after pulling a study that it commissioned ... Critics of the study have portrayed that conclusion as an attempt to let Mr. ... “This paper basically whitewashes the Obama administration's .... News Analysis: The Big Question as the U.N. Gathers: What to Make of Trump?
Bowling Green Daily News
August 24, 2017
Nevertheless, the Obama administration spent the money for the insurance subsidies, breezily arguing that it was being faithful to somethingÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 24, 2017
He repeated his criticism in another tweet on Thursday: “The only ... his focus on Twitter briefly to the Obama administration on Thursday.
Bloomberg BNA
August 23, 2017
Nathan Mehrens, who has already held a variety of Trump administration labor roles, will run the DOL Regulatory Reform Office, created inÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
August 23, 2017
Annual economic and security assistance peaked at more than $3.5 billion in 2011, but the Obama administration and Congress steadilyÃÂ ...
Gatestone Institute
August 20, 2017
Kissinger's third error is him forgetting the contribution of the Obama administration to strengthening the Khomeinist regime, not to say allowingÃÂ ...
Tulsa World
August 20, 2017
He has long been one of the rare advocates for the policy, a vestige of the war on drugs restricted by the Obama administration that allowedÃÂ ...
The Hill
August 20, 2017
Former President Obama's Homeland Security secretary said Sunday ... stay” in the administration if any of them asked, he told ABC's “This Week. ... Jerry Falwell Jr. on the ABC program included criticism of Obama for failingÃÂ ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
August 20, 2017
As for the Cartwright pardon, it flew in the face of the record of the Obama administration, which prosecuted more leaks alone than the previousÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 19, 2017
Critics accuse Mr. Netanyahu of further alienating American Jewry, already ... After eight years of tensions with the Obama administration overÃÂ ...
CNN
August 18, 2017
Critics of private prisons contend they are inefficient and inhumane. ... The other major strain of criticism comes from the profit motive, the argument that ... Meanwhile, Sessions, in his memo rolling back the Obama-era policy,ÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
August 17, 2017
But nobody except a select few within the Iranian administration .... US criticism over the testing of missiles under the Obama administration, justÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
August 17, 2017
The Department of Homeland Security announced that it will end an Obama administration program that brought young Central AmericanÃÂ ...
Philly.com
August 17, 2017
Analysis: Trump has failed to offer moral leadership after Charlottesville. ... Think about Barack Obama's 2015 eulogy when a white .... The Veterans Affairs secretary, a holdover from the Obama administration, said yesterday that he is .... Nations issued a veiled but unmistakable criticism of Trump during aÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
August 17, 2017
But this is the first one from the new Trump administration. ... research analysis shop during the Obama administration and is now at AAAS, saysÃÂ ...
CNBC
August 17, 2017
We remember President Obama's speech on the power of grace after ... At the outset of the administration, CEOs wondered what would happenÃÂ ...
MassLive.com
August 15, 2017
Just as the cloaking media fog created by the Obama administration has begun to fade, former president Barack Obama is reportedly planningÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 7, 2017
In an email dated January 19, Nusseibeh sends her analysis of the Senate ... slammed Trump to officials in the Obama administration last year. ... Deals with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have led to criticism from rightsÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
August 7, 2017
Obama eased rules to welcome 1 million illegal youths, status now in doubt ... youths from Latin America, the Obama administration turned a blind eye to ... be curtailed or even killed as critics and candidate Trump demanded.
KIRO Seattle
August 7, 2017
"We should not exclude reliable forensic analysis - or any reliable expert testimony ... The working group takes the place of an Obama-era commission of ... the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol,ÃÂ ...
E&E News
August 7, 2017
Steven Koonin, a former official in the Obama administration, is a candidate ... Koonin sent a draft around to about a dozen people he considers "friendly critics. ... and plenty of criticism from his former Obama administration colleagues, ... Ebell, a prominent critic of the prevailing views about climate science.
ABC News
August 6, 2017
Not that long ago I criticized the Obama administration for using "national security" as a rationale for cracking down on leaks by folks in theÃÂ ...
