Government Relations

  • Lawmakers snipe, Bernanke warns as deadline nears
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Fuming lawmakers pointed fingers at one another and President Barack Obama on Thursday as negotiations over raising the national debt limit entered a perilous endgame. Federal Reserve Chairm
     
  • 'Enough is enough,' Obama says, calling for deal
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid new warnings and fresh signs of strain, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are entering a perilous endgame in their debt limit standoff. The president, declaring "enough is enough," is demanding that budget negotiators find common ground by week's end.
     
  • Reid: No Social Security checks without debt deal
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Echoing President Barack Obama's warning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Social Security payments would stop if there is no deal to raise the government's borrowing limit by Aug. 2.
     
  • Pentagon to publish strategy for cyberspace wars
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing escalating risks of cyberattacks by hackers, criminals and other nations, the Pentagon is developing more resilient computer networks so the military can continue to operate if critical systems are breached or taken down.
     
  • Companies propose curbing junk food ads for kids
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's largest food companies say they will cut back on marketing unhealthy foods to children, proposing their own set of advertising standards after rejecting similar guidelines proposed by the federal government.
     
  • House panel to take up 3 trade agreements
    AP (July 05, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans are bucking demands from the Obama White House to include renewal of a U.S. job training assistance program in long-pending legislation providing free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.
     
  • APNewsBreak: FDA issues graphic cigarette labels
    AP (June 21, 2011)
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Rotting teeth. Diseased lungs. A corpse of a smoker.
     
  • NTSB: Culture of driving with phones must change
    AP (June 21, 2011)
    PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The nation risks a surge in deadly accidents unless it makes distracted driving - talking, texting and browsing the Internet while operating cars, boats and trains - as taboo as drinking and driving, members of the National Transportation and Safety Board said Tuesday.
     
  • Crunch time looms as Biden-led budget talks resume
    AP (June 21, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - It's getting down to crunch time for Vice President Joe Biden and a bipartisan band of lawmakers trying to craft a deal to slash the federal budget and raise the debt limit.