Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Obama to push country of origin food labeling
The Obama administration is throwing out food labeling rules proposed by the Agriculture Department just before George W. Bush left office, saying it wants labels for fresh meat and other foods that would show more clearly where an animal or food came from, according to [...]
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24 Feb
Obama to push country of origin food labeling
20 Feb
Obama warns mayors not to waste stimulus money
WASHINGTON – Invoking his own name-and-shame policy, President Barack Obama warned the nation’s mayors on Friday that he will “call them out” if they waste the money from his massive economic stimulus plan.
14 Feb
We’re doomed – Obama said the name of the Scottish play
Thursday, February 12, 2009
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Chris in Paris · 2/12/2009 10:19:00 PM ET
We’re doomed, I say. Doomed.
Macbeth.On a trip to Ford’s Theater, site of President Lincoln’s assassination, Obama paid tribute to the 16th president’s ability to recall passages of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth. And with that reference, he unwittingly ventured into what [...]
5 Feb
Obama signs bill extending kids’ health insurance
By KEVIN FREKING and PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writers
Wednesday, February 4, 2009(02-04) 17:14 PST WASHINGTON (AP) –
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, a move he called a first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans. It was a victory for [...]
4 Feb
Obama to set executive pay limits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama kicks off a campaign on Wednesday to rein in corporate compensation with rules limiting executive pay to $500,000 a year for companies getting taxpayer bailout funds in the future.
Obama, who sharply criticized Wall Street chiefs for accepting billions of dollars in bonuses last year while the economy staggered toward [...]
30 Jan
Obama Slams Wall Street Bonuses
Page last updated at 21:57 GMT, Thursday, 29 January 2009E-mail this to a friend Printable version Obama slams Wall Street bonuses
Wall Street’s reputation is at a low ebb.President Barack Obama says that multi-billion dollar bonuses taken by Wall Street bankers are “shameful” while taxpayers bail out their industry.The president said their actions “were the height [...]
30 Jan
Stocks fall as Obama blasts bonuses
By Greg Morcroft, MarketWatchLast update: 4:24 p.m. EST Jan. 29, 2009Comments: 51Street scrapes together $18.4 billion for bonusesDespite the collapse of the financial system, the shuttering of several major firms and the elimination of thousands of jobs, the securities industry managed to scratch together about $18 billion of shareholder and investor cash to pay bonuses [...]
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