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• 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

• 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

• EPA, Interior Dept. Chiefs Will Be Busy Erasing Bush's Mark

  Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush administration's most intense scientific and environmental... Posted Nov 27 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Pennsylvania, California, Will, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Stephen L. Johnson, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Be, Arizona, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jon Corzine, Hastings College of the Law, Dept., Oregon, Chiefs, Mike Thompson, Barbara Boxer, Center for American Progress, Jonathan Shradar, U.S. Department of the Interior, Busy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Madonna Lebling, Sierra Club, Pace University, Frank O'Donnell, Mark, Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife, Clean Air Watch, Dirk Kempthorne, Bush's, California Air Resources Board, Kathleen McGinty, Lisa Renstrom, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance, Ian Bowles, Robert Sussman, Reno (Nevada), EPA,, Jay Inslee, Raul Grijalva, Richard Moe, Brian Schweitzer, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Interior, Lisa Jackson, Mary Nichols, John Kitzhaber, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, John Leshy, Erasing, David Hayes

• U.S. Moves Ahead on Oil, Gas Leases

  Posted Nov 26 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: on, U.S., George W. Bush, The Washington Post Company, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Natural Resources Defense Council, Utah, Southwest (Washington, DC), Sarah Cohen, Ahead, National Parks Conservation Association, 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

• Obama Promotes an Array of Financial Proposals

  In his second news conference in as many days, President-elect Barack Obama continued his assertive approach to the nation's financial woes, naming two more top economic officials and promoting a broad array of recovery plans he intends to push upon entering the White House in January. Posted Nov 25 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, Financial, The White House, George W. Bush, of, Tony Fratto, Herbert Hoover, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Obama, Chicago, Bill Clinton, an, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Detroit, Paul C. Light, New York University, Kentucky, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert Gates, Kari Lydersen, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Proposals, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Somalia, Peter R. Orszag, Robert Dallek, Promotes, Rob Nabors, James L. Jones, Array

• Ailing FDA May Need Major Restructuring

  The Obama administration will inherit a Food and Drug Administration widely seen as struggling to protect Americans from unsafe medication, contaminated food and a flood of questionable imports from China and other countries. Posted Nov 25 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, China, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Food and Drug Administration, May, Consumer Federation of America, Avandia, Need, Vioxx, FDA, Major, Restructuring, Ailing, Christopher Waldrop, Plan B Contraceptive, David Ross, Carl R. Nielsen, William K. Hubbard, Mark B. McClellan, Jane E. Henney, David A. Kessler

• Obama Sets Expansive Goal for Jobs

  President-elect Barack Obama is developing a plan to create or preserve 2.5 million jobs over the next two years by spending billions of dollars to rebuild roads and bridges, modernize public schools, and construct wind farms and other alternative sources of energy. Posted Nov 22 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, for, George W. Bush, Neil Irwin, Barack Obama, Obama, Bill Clinton, Harvard University, Capitol Hill, Jobs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Sets, The Bank of New York Co. Inc., National Economic Council, Tennessee Valley Authority, Goal, Expansive

• Obama Picks N.Y. Fed President Geithner as Treasury Secretary

  President-elect Barack Obama has selected New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy F. Geithner as Treasury secretary, handing the post to a primary architect of the Bush administration's response to the financial crisis, according to Democratic and industry officials yesterday. Posted Nov 21 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, New York, United States, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Fed, Henry M. Paulson, U.S. Department of Commerce, Georgetown University, The White House, The Washington Post Company, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Citigroup Inc., Federal Reserve Bank of New York, As, President, Mexico, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Illinois, Obama, Chicago, Bill Clinton, N.Y., Asia, Russia, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Daniel K. Tarullo, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Bill Richardson (Politician), U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Robert Rubin, University of Chicago, Jason Furman, The Brookings Institution, U.S. House of Representatives, Treasury, Penny Pritzker, Secretary, Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senate, Austan Goolsbee, Lawrence Summers, New Mexico, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, United Nations, Picks, Kent Conrad, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Anne E. Kornblut, Chris Cillizza, National Economic Council, American International Group Inc., Geithner, Scott Talbott, Geithner Treasury, Joining Summers

• Senators Urge Bush to Stop Converting Political Posts to Civil Service Jobs

  Democrats in the Senate called on President Bush to halt any effort by his administration to place political appointees in career jobs just weeks before his team leaves office. Posted Nov 18 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: to, Bush, The White House, U.S. Government Accountability Office, George W. Bush, The Pentagon, The Washington Post Company, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Justice, Charles Schumer, Barack Obama, Political, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Capitol Hill, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Service, U.S. Department of Defense, Jobs, Senators, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Civil, U.S. Department of the Interior, Dana Perino, Posts, Juliet Eilperin, Urge, Jimmy Carter, Dianne Feinstein, Stop, Converting, Bob Krause, Neil Goldschmidt, Kevin Mahoney

• Potential Obama Appointees Face Extensive Vetting

  There was a time when smoking marijuana during college threatened your hopes of landing a top presidential appointment. Then came the nanny questions: Are your domestic workers legal? Did you pay their employment taxes? Posted Nov 17 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Google Inc., The White House, Guatemala, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Facebook Inc., Federal Bureau of Investigation, Face, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Potential, U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, American International Group Inc., Tom Korologos, Belgium, Dina Powell, Appointees, Michael S. Berman, Linda Chavez, Extensive, Vetting, Zoe Baird, E. Pendleton James, Nelson A. Rockefeller

• Bill Clinton's Global Reach Would Have Pluses and Minuses for a Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

  If Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is named the next secretary of state, she and her husband could be positioned to lead a public-private partnership on the global stage unlike any before it, one that experts say would bring with it a host of potential benefits and pitfalls for the new president. Posted Nov 16 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, A, for, The White House, George W. Bush, California, of, and, Bill, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, The New York Times Company, Hillary, Cuba, Illinois, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Ron Burkle, State, Have, Albany, NAFTA, Kuwait, Yale University, Syria, Secretary, Would, Duke University, Vinod Gupta, Leon Panetta, infoUSA Inc., Middle East, Global, Madonna Lebling, Kazakhstan, Jimmy Carter, Council on Foundations, Steve Gunderson, Little Rock, Hurricane Katrina, Reach, Agence France-Presse, Kuwait City, Charles Hill, William J. Clinton Foundation, Pluses, Frank Giustra, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Clinton's, Minuses, Obama's Cabinet, Indian Ocean, International Profit Associates Inc.

• Obama Resigns From Senate, Names More Staffers

  President-elect Barack Obama officially resigned from the Senate yesterday, removing himself from any official role in the lame-duck session of Congress that will convene this week. He also laid more groundwork for the start of his administration by deciding on additional members of his senior st... Posted Nov 16 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, More, The White House, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Illinois, Obama, Chicago, Bill Clinton, From, Edward M. Kennedy, David Axelrod, Ronald Reagan, Names, Capitol Hill, Bill Richardson (Politician), U.S. Department of State, Max Baucus, Rod Blagojevich, Resigns, Guantanamo Bay, Staffers, Anne E. Kornblut, Chris Cillizza, Valerie Jarrett, Michael D. Shear, Madeleine Albright, Stephanie Cutter, Jim Messina, Stonebridge International LLC, William Kennedy Smith, Senate,, John Hinckley, Peter M. Rouse, Mona K. Sutphen, Gregory Craig

• Nation's Economic Crisis Forces Democrats to Focus More Intensely on Creating Jobs

  For most of his campaign, President-elect Barack Obama's economic message was a call to restore balance to an off-kilter system, with investments in health care and education and reforms to the tax code and labor laws. Posted Nov 15 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Crisis, United States, to, More, on, Virginia, John McCain, Barack Obama, Focus, Bill Clinton, John Edwards (Politician), U.S. Democratic Party, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Service Employees International Union, Democrats, AFL-CIO, North Carolina, Gene Sperling, Jobs, Economic, Center for American Progress, Sander Levin, Anna Burger, George Miller, Chris Van Hollen, Doug Holtz-Eakin, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Terence R. McAuliffe, Nation's, Forces, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Old Dominion University, James Kvaal, Creating, Works Progress Administration,