Word: clintone
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...bills, first passed in 1976, which prohibited federal funds from being spent on abortion in the United States. The policy bore immediate fruit: In 1985, the UN Population Fund repudiated the funding and advocacy of abortion as a means of family planning. Though the policy was reversed by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush restored...
...handful of us were taking up the cause of expanding the faith conversation in the Democratic party, Joshua was one of those with us. He has a lot of knowledge and toughness, is focused on his job, and does it quite well." - Burns Strider, DuBois' counterpart on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. (Boston Globe, July...
...Obama, Barack • half-brother of wastes no time joining the ranks of embarrassing White House sibs (e.g. Billy Carter, Roger Clinton, Neil Bush) by getting busted in Nairobi for marijuana possession • news anchors are serially told "I screwed up" by • policy of to curtail exorbitant rewards for grotesque failure • sudden attempt by journalist Robert Feuereisen to get autograph of during signing ceremony by is thwarted by Secret Service agents trained to prevent unexpected approaches...
Harvard Kennedy School professor Ashton B. Carter may return to the Pentagon after nearly a decade in academia. Carter, the former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under the Clinton administration, is expected to be named to the Pentagon’s top acquisition and technology job as early as this week, Reuters reports. The announcement would come as a flurry of Harvard professors—including many of Carter’s colleagues at the Kennedy School—prepare to head south for Washington to join the Obama administration. News of Carter’s likely...
...ambitious task down a path studded with political mines. Although partnerships between faith-based organizations and government have existed for decades and were reinvigorated during the Clinton Administration, the issue became a partisan football during Bush's time in office. Even some of the faith-based initiative's earliest supporters - including Republican Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana and former office director John DiIulio - strongly criticized the way the Bush White House handled the effort and cut funds for social services. "The Bush Administration pushed hard on the things that created the most controversy and made it look more controversial than...