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...Obama's agenda to get the U.S. back on track...
...report on an investigation of Julie MacDonald, who served as deputy assistant secretary at the Fish and Wildlife Service: "MacDonald's zeal to advance her agenda has caused considerable harm to the integrity" of the Endangered Species Act programs "and to the morale and the reputation" of the Fish and Wildlife Service, "as well as potential harm to individual species." (New York Times...
...speech. With Democratic control in the House and Senate, Obama has the ability to set the terms of the bipartisan discussion. He wins by talking about the need for bipartisanship - yet he has enough votes in Congress to largely determine when too much bipartisanship would hurt his agenda. "On the one hand, the majority has to be inclusive," he explained on Monday, during an afternoon discussion with lawmakers. "On the other hand, the minority has to be constructive...
...State of the Wars During his first month in office, the domestic economy dominated the agenda such that Obama mostly avoided discussing the still troubling national-security situation. He announced the dispatch of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan by press release. He has avoided any direct comment on the continued concern that Iran is close to developing its first nuclear weapon. The war in Iraq, which has thus far claimed the lives of 13 soldiers in February, has been put under review - but the President has resisted specific comments about plans to withdraw troops. Meanwhile, the military has continued...
...midst of a severe economic downturn, he says, "it's going to be essential to have a strong cost-benefit analysis in support of any regulation as a way of selling it to the American public. If I were a President who wanted to have a strong environmental agenda, the last thing I would do is say, "We're not going to look at the costs of these regulations; we're just going to do them...