This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace moderated a discussion about the auto industry. One of his guests was Dr. Austan Goolsbee, who is a Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist on the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. I want to focus on some incorrect and inflammatory statements […]
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Tag Archives: executive order
Will the Administration fund CSI: New Haven and Tattoo removal in L.A.?
24 April 2009 
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President Obama may not realize that the people who work for him are required to ignore hundreds (thousands?) of Congressional earmarks. The President has the ability to stop them from doing so. I hope that he will not. Thanks go to former OMB General Counsel Jeff Rosen for pointing this out. An Executive Order is […]
Read moreDefense earmarks
29 May 2008 Comments Off
Each year Congress considers the “defense authorization bill.” This bill gives the U.S. military its legal authorities. The House passed this bill last Thursday. One provision in the bill would attempt to limit the President’s ability to ignore certain earmarks in the report language that accompanied the bill. This is an important moment in the […]
Read moreEarmark reform (State of the Union follow-up)
29 January 2008 Comments Off
Here’s what the President said last night in the State of the Union about earmarks: The people’s trust in their government is undermined by congressional earmarks — special interest projects that are often snuck in at the last minute, without discussion or debate. Last year, I asked you to voluntarily cut the number and cost […]
Read moreEconomic highlights of the State of the Union address
28 January 2008 Comments Off
The President delivers his State of the Union address this evening, beginning just after 9 PM. We typically release “fact sheets” along with the address. Since the big document is 36 pages long, we also have versions of the different component fact sheets on whitehouse.gov. Here are the economic ones: Economy Budget Free trade Energy […]
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