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...choppers were slated to make their first takeoff from the White House lawn in 2012. But their cost has soared from an estimated $6.1 billion in 2005 to $13.4 billion today. "We're not going to pay $500 million for one helicopter. Period," Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee, declared recently. At $480 million a piece - roughly the price of the 747s fitted as Air Force One - the choppers, part of Lockheed Martin's VH-71 program are "in deep trouble," Pentagon officials said on Tuesday. (See pictures of the Army...
...February, has been put under review - but the President has resisted specific comments about plans to withdraw troops. Meanwhile, the military has continued - some would argue increased - regular remote-control missile attacks on suspected terrorists in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan with only minimal comment from the White House. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...crises," potential economic "catastrophe" and the "big challenge" ahead. At the time, such language served a political purpose: to direct public pressure toward Congress to pass the stimulus, while making clear that the problems were inherited. But too much grim talk runs the risk of becoming self-fulfilling. As White House economists will explain, the worst fears of an economic spiral involve a self-perpetuating collapse in consumer confidence that leads to a deflationary spiral: people spend less, so people have less to spend...
...easily confirmed by the Senate, few people are willing to go public with criticisms. But "extremely disappointed" is how one person describes the general reaction among liberal advocacy groups at the prospect of Sunstein becoming what many call the "regulatory czar." (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...Meanwhile, everyone with a stake in regulatory law will be watching closely to see what develops from a request that the Obama White House put out last month to the heads of federal agencies, asking for their ideas on how to revise both the government rulemaking process and the way OIRA reviews those rules. For one thing, it appears to mean that the new Administration will be looking for ways to apply cost-benefit analysis differently. The Institute for Policy Integrity, a progressive group headed by Livermore at New York University School of Law, has issued a list of proposed...