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• The President-Elect, Talking Turkey

  President-elect Obama had nearly finished his third news conference in as many days yesterday when he decided to favor his audience with one more tasty morsel of information about the just-announced members of his economic team. Posted Nov 26 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, The, The White House, The Pentagon, John McCain, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Chicago, Michelle Obama, Daily News LP, David Axelrod, ABC Inc., Bill Richardson (Politician), Paul Volcker, University of Chicago, Turkey, Robert Gates, John Podesta, Rahm Emanuel, Austan Goolsbee, Barbara Walters, BlackBerry Mobile Devices, Disneyland Resort, Ron Klain, Ed Henry, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, Gregory Craig, Thomas Daschle, Tom DeFrank, President-Elect,, Talking

• 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

• Media Notes: An Interview With Outgoing White House Press Secretary Dana Perino

  The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays. Posted Nov 23 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Howard Kurtz (washingtonpost.com) Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, United States, The White House, George W. Bush, Scott McClellan, The Washington Post Company, With, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, John McCain, Iraq, CBS Corporation, Howard Kurtz, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, The New York Times Company, Afghanistan, NBC Universal Inc., Press, Michelle Obama, The Associated Press, Media, ABC Inc., Colombia, an, Africa, Secretary, Rahm Emanuel, House, White, International Olympic Committee, Dana Perino, Robert Gibbs, Tony Snow, Ari Fleischer, Hurricane Katrina, Agence France-Presse, Interview, Outgoing, Dana, Mark Knoller, Perino, The West Wing (TV Show), Rick Sanchez, Notes:, John Yang

• Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion

  Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years. Posted Nov 23 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, The White House, George W. Bush, Medicare, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Citigroup Inc., Charles Schumer, John McCain, Iraq, CBS Corporation, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Barack Obama, Chicago, Harvard University, David Axelrod, ABC Inc., Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Nancy Pelosi, May, Jon Corzine, Plan, Billion, Robert Reich, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Boehner, Austan Goolsbee, Lawrence Summers, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Stimulus, Martin Feldstein, National Bureau of Economic Research, Reach, Democrats', $700

• 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, Bill Samuels, Intensely

• Election Over, Workers Can Break Out the Campaign Buttons

  The Hatch Act, which regulates the political activity of federal employees, isn't as restrictive as some workers think. It might surprise them that the law even allows wearing and displaying campaign items on the job -- as long as it's after the election. Posted Nov 13 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, The, George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, Out, Can, Campaign, Break, Workers, U.S. Office of Special Counsel, Election, Senior Executives Association, Joe Davidson, Over,, Buttons

• Officials Guiding the Process Are Named

  The Obama transition team yesterday rolled out a new list of officials who will help guide the process, singling out the Treasury, Defense and State departments as its first three areas of focus. Posted Nov 12 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, The, Yahoo! Inc., The Pentagon, Thomas E. Perez, U.S. Department of the Treasury, John McCain, Iraq, Barack Obama, Edward M. Kennedy, Al Gore, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, North Korea, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Are, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Colorado, Center for American Progress, Officials, Named, Middle East, Process, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, National Defense University, Executive Office of the President, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Core Capital Partners, Reed Hundt, Joseph Biden, Level 3 Communications Inc., Madeleine Albright, University of Michigan Law School, Raymond Odierno, Melody Barnes, Sarah Sewall, Ann Scott Tyson, Labor Alexis M. Herman, Seth Harris, David J. Hayes, Janet Reno, The Albright Group LLC, New York Law School, Jon Wilkins, Albright Capital Management LLC, Center for a New American Security, Josh Gotbaum, Wendy R. Sherman, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John P. White, Thomas E. Donilon, Warren Christopher, Louisa Terrell, Ray Rivera, Flournoy, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Guiding, Michele A. Flournoy, Resources Department, Lisa Brown, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Tom Wheeler, Michael Warren, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Stonebridge International LLC

• Senators Hurry to Keep Health Care in Forefront

  Two of the Senate's most influential leaders are working separately behind the scenes on legislation that would dramatically alter the way Americans get health care, hoping their early efforts -- including the release today of a position paper -- will push President-elect Barack Obama to move rap... Posted Nov 11 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: to, In, Medicaid, Ron Pollack, Families USA, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Health, Medicare, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Edward M. Kennedy, NAFTA, Max Baucus, Keep, Senators, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Care, Peter R. Orszag, Ron Wyden, Forefront, Hurry, Drew E. Altman, Robert F. Bennett

• Obama's Other Transition: Handling a Tougher Press Corps

  Barack Obama figured out early on that he had better limit his media consumption before it consumed him. Posted Nov 09 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Howard Kurtz (washingtonpost.com) Filed under: Washington, DC, A, The White House, George W. Bush, Tougher, The Wall Street Journal, Obama's, John McCain, MSNBC Interactive News LLC, Barack Obama, The New York Times Company, Charles Gibson, Katie Couric, Illinois, Press, Chicago, Tribune Company, St. Petersburg Times, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Arkansas, Chris Matthews, Kenneth Starr, HuffingtonPost.com Inc., Ronald Reagan, Joe Scarborough, Facebook Inc., Chicago Sun-Times, Other, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Sarah Palin, Eric Deggans, ESPN Inc., Lynn Sweet, Politico.com, YouTube LLC, Joseph Biden, National Association of Black Journalists, Handling, Transition:, Jim Warren, Amy Holmes, William Safire, Michael Frisby, Corps

• Obama Voters Favor Compromise on Offshore Drilling, Poll Finds

  Will the election of Barack Obama increase the chances that Democrats in Congress will reimpose a moratorium on oil exploration off most of the nation's shorelines? Posted Nov 06 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, on, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, U.S. Republican Party, Barack Obama, Illinois, Obama, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Department of the Interior, Finds, Sierra Club, Compromise, Gulf of Mexico, Poll, Offshore, Favor, Voters, Drilling,, Josh Dorner, Brendan Daly

• For Obama, White House Keys Could Come With License to Spend

  When President-elect Barack Obama moves into the White House in January, he will inherit a stratospheric budget deficit, a collapsing financial system and the gloomiest economic outlook since the Great Depression. The silver lining? For a few months, at least, he may have a license to spend money. Posted Nov 05 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, to, for, The White House, Medicaid, U.S. Department of the Treasury, With, Steny Hoyer, John McCain, Arizona, Iraq, U.S. Republican Party, Barack Obama, Obama,, Colombia, Nancy Pelosi, Could, The Brookings Institution, Tax Policy Center, House, White, Chris Van Hollen, Concord Coalition, Robert Bixby, Paul Kane, Come, License, Spend, Institute for America's Future, Mike Ross, Keys, Robert Borosage

• Obama Team Shifts to Transition Mode

  A day after winning a historic victory that will make him the first black president in the nation's history, Barack Obama remained largely out of public view yesterday while his aides announced the first details of an ambitious plan for the transfer of power when he assumes office in January. Posted Nov 05 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, to, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Henry M. Paulson, The White House, George W. Bush, The Pentagon, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, U.S. Department of the Treasury, John McCain, Barack Obama, Illinois, Obama, Chicago, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Team, Nancy Pelosi, Capitol Hill, Harvard Law School, Jamie Dimon, Robert Rubin, Paul Volcker, Mike McConnell, Lori Montgomery, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, Central Intelligence Agency, Timothy Geithner, Rahm Emanuel, Lawrence Summers, Middle East, Bryan Whitman, Warren Buffett, Karen DeYoung, Laura Bush, Valerie Jarrett, Michael D. Shear, Dan Pfeiffer, Joseph Biden, Shifts, Mode, Shailagh Murray, Glenn Kessler, Michael Froman, Pete Rouse, Chris Lu, Transition, John D. Podesta, Cassandra Q. Butts, Michael Hayden, Mark Gitenstein, Ted Kaufman, D'Andrea Tyson, Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, Ann Scott Tyson, Phil Schiliro, Stephanie Cutter, Joby Warrick, Jim Messina