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• Haste Could Make Waste on Stimulus, States Say

  With President-elect Barack Obama vowing to plow hundreds of billions of dollars into the nation's infrastructure, some state officials are warning that public works projects will fail to effectively lift the country out of recession unless they are chosen carefully and implemented rapidly. Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, New York, United States, Maryland, Montgomery County (Maryland), Prince George's County, on, Washington Dulles International Airport, The White House, Virginia, Say, Barack Obama, Japan, Philadelphia, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Make, Could, North Carolina, Tim Kaine, Fairfax County, Arnold Schwarzenegger, States, Joe Manchin, Anthony Faiola, National Governors Association, Stimulus,, Ceci Connolly, Brian Schweitzer, Waste, Suitland Parkway, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Transportation Builders Association, Janet Kavinoky, David Quam, Mitch E. Daniels Jr., Bill Buechner, John D. Porcari, Democratic Governors Association, Haste

• Obama Transition Teams Scrutinizing Federal Agencies

  Wearing yellow badges and traveling in groups of 10 or more, agency review teams for President-elect Barack Obama have swarmed into dozens of government offices, from the Pentagon to the National Council on Disability. Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: The White House, George W. Bush, The Pentagon, Medicare, Tony Fratto, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, Obama, Bill Clinton, Harvard University, U.S. Democratic Party, Al Gore, Ronald Reagan, Federal, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, Center for American Progress, Agencies, Teams, Transition, John D. Podesta, Sarah Sewall, Robert Sussman, Wendy R. Sherman, Michele A. Flournoy, Lisa Brown, Alex Bastani, Lisa Jackson, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Melody C. Barnes, Robert Rangel, National Council on Disability, Scrutinizing, Caspar Weinberger, John White, Rose McMurray, Alyssa Rosenberg, Domestic Policy Council, Tom Donilon, University of Vermont, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, John P. Burke, Reinventing Government

• Paulson To Prod China on Currency

  Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. will urge China to maintain a strong currency during high-level talks this week as worries grow in the United States that Beijing may be exacerbating the global slowdown by deflating the value of the yuan to spur its own economy, Treasury officials said yes... Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, New York, United States, to, Henry M. Paulson, on, Currency, Barack Obama, International Monetary Fund, China, Asia, Beijing, Morgan Stanley, Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Thailand, Wang Qing, Wu Yi, Dartmouth College, Ford Foundation, Wang Qishan, Chiang Mai, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Liu Liu, Teng Tai, Kathy Lien, Tsinghua University, Prod, China Galaxy Securities Co. Ltd.

• Another Obstacle for Affirmative Action, And Congress Is Prepared to Fight

  On Nov. 4, amid all the excitement surrounding Barack Obama's election, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down a Pentagon program that included a 5 percent set-aside for companies run by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native... Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: to, for, The Pentagon, and, Is, Barack Obama, Another, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Court of Appeals, Congress, Fight, San Antonio, prepared, Joe Davidson, Obstacle, Timex Corporation, International Computer, Action,, Affirmative, Edolphus Towns

• Federal-Employee Unions Angered as Bush Bars National Security Workers

  Government unions yesterday criticized a White House executive order that bars certain workers at five federal departments from joining a union because they are engaged in intelligence gathering, investigations and other national security work. Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Bush, The White House, George W. Bush, As, U.S. Department of Justice, Barack Obama, Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury Employees Union, Workers, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, American Federation of Government Employees, Security, National, Jimmy Carter, Unions, Angered, Office of International Affairs, Bars, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Scott M. Stanzel, Peter Winch, Federal-Employee

• Bailout Oversight Lacking, GAO Report Says

  The Bush administration has failed to adequately oversee its $700 billion bailout program and must move rapidly to guarantee that banks are complying with the plan's limits on conflicts of interest and lavish executive compensation, congressional investigators said yesterday. Posted Dec 02 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: U.S. Federal Reserve, U.S. Government Accountability Office, George W. Bush, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bailout, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Capitol Hill, Says, Report, Max Baucus, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, GAO, Oversight, Neel Kashkari, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Michele A. Davis, Neil Barofsky, Lacking,

• States Want $176 Billion Slice of Federal Stimulus

  When President-elect Barack Obama arrives at Philadelphia's Independence Hall today to meet with the nation's governors, the main question will be not whether he will deliver fast fiscal relief to the states, but how much? Posted Dec 01 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, The White House, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Medicaid, of, Medicare, Charles Schumer, Barack Obama, Chicago, Philadelphia, Federal, Billion, Want, Edward Rendell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, States, Slice, Stimulus, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, National Governors Association, Mark Sanford, $176, Diane Rowland, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid, Steven Malanga, James Douglas

• Labor Dept. Accused of Straying From Enforcement

  The next labor secretary will be taking charge of an agency widely criticized for walking away from its regulatory function across a range of issues, including wage and hour law and workplace safety. Posted Nov 30 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: U.S. Government Accountability Office, George W. Bush, of, Barack Obama, From, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Dept., Center for American Progress, Accused, Labor, Andy Stern, Enforcement, Elaine Chao, U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Randel K. Johnson, Straying, OMB Watch, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Thea Lee, Scott Lilly

• Hard Times Hit Santa, Too

  For a lot of folks, one of the hardest things about the holiday season this year will be in giving less to their children because they just don't have the money. Posted Nov 29 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: National Public Radio Inc., Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post Company, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Barack Obama, Times, The Associated Press, Hard, Hit, Too, Sanford and Son (TV Show), Redd Foxx, Santa,, Fred Sanford

• At the Last Minute, a Raft of Rules

  In a burst of activity meant to leave a lasting stamp on the federal government, the Bush White House in the past month has approved 61 new regulations on environmental, security, social and commercial matters that by its own estimate will have an economic impact exceeding $1.9 billion annually. Posted Nov 29 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, The, A, The White House, George W. Bush, Medicaid, of, at, Rules, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, National Association of Manufacturers, Last, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Barbara Boxer, Center for American Progress, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Henry Waxman, U.S. Department of Energy, Bill Ritter, Carol D. Leonnig, Brendan Daly, Ceci Connolly, American Trucking Associations, Spenser S. Hsu, Minute,, Raft, Daniel J. Weiss

• Nations Spend in Tandem To Stall Global Recession

  In a bid to jump-start the beleaguered global economy, countries around the world are introducing massive public spending programs aimed at creating millions of jobs, boosting the use of green energy and modernizing infrastructure in a way that could transform urban and rural landscapes. Posted Nov 28 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, to, In, European Union, United Kingdom, Europe, Pennsylvania, Barack Obama, International Monetary Fund, China, Germany, Beijing, Tokyo, Japan, Detroit, Italy, Spain, France, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Recession, Global, Sierra Club, Ireland, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, Nicolas Sarkozy, U.S. Congress, Carl Pope, Nations, Spend, Tandem, Olivier Blanchard, Stall, Nicholas R. Lardy

• Bankruptcy Could Offer GM More Flexibility

  General Motors insists that bankruptcy would be a catastrophic way to solve its cash problems, but that hasn't stopped analysts and bankers from speculating about how a restructuring might shake out. Posted Nov 28 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, JP Morgan Chase & Co., More, General Motors Corporation, Barack Obama, Could, Daniel K. Tarullo, Detroit, Offer, Lori Montgomery, Bankruptcy, United Auto Workers, Ford Motor Company, Center for Automotive Research, GM, Georgetown University Law Center, Oldsmobile Motor Company, Maryann Keller, Chrysler LLC, Flexibility

• U.S. Moves Ahead on Oil, Gas Leases on Public Land

  A decision by federal officials this week to press ahead with a controversial sale of oil and gas leases in eastern Utah is stoking the debate over how to balance the nation's needs for fossil fuels against concerns over the environmental impact on iconic national parks and other sensitive areas. Posted Nov 28 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, on, U.S., The White House, The Washington Post Company, Tony Fratto, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Natural Resources Defense Council, Public, Utah, Southwest (Washington, DC), Sarah Cohen, Ahead, National Parks Conservation Association, Land, Alaska, Gas, Moves, American Petroleum Institute, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, oil,, Tim Spisak, Leases, Kathleen Sgamma, Richard Ranger, Mike Snyder, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, Selma Sierra, Karen Hevel-Mingo, David Garbett, Bobby McEnaney

• Faith-Based Coalitions Pushing for Treasury to Halt Some Foreclosures

  A national coalition of faith-based organizations has launched an effort to push the federal government for a more streamlined approach to handling troubled mortgages, with the aim of keeping more owners in their homes. Posted Nov 28 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, to, Henry M. Paulson, Prince George's County, for, California, Barack Obama, Some, Kansas, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Richmond, Oakland, Sheila Bair, Treasury, Foreclosures, Halt, Pushing, Melody Barnes, Obama's Treasury Department, PICO, Lucy Kolin, Marvin Webb, Mary Rabon, Donna Hurley, Gordon Whitman, Coalitions, Faith-Based

• Treasury Urged to Provide No Bailout Benefit to Private Student Lenders

  Student advocacy groups are urging the Treasury Department to prevent a new $200 billion consumer-lending program from benefiting private student lenders, which they say are largely unregulated and prey on students with risky, high-interest loans. Posted Nov 27 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, to, Henry M. Paulson, California, U.S. Department of the Treasury, No, Bailout, Barack Obama, Consumers Union of U.S. Inc., National Consumer Law Center, Reston, Benefit, Treasury, FinAid Page LLC, Sallie Mae Inc., Mark Kantrowitz, George Miller, Lenders, Private, Student, Samara Yudof, United States Student Association, John Dean, Urged, Consumer Bankers Association, Christine Lindstrom, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Provide, American Council on Education, Michele A. Davis, Michelle Smith, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, Kevin Bruns, Tom Joyce