A string of Bush administration decisions has halted steps to protect the environment.
Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said the heated opposition was evidence that Republicans had made a political calculation to draw a line against any health care changes, the latest in a string of major administration proposals that Republicans have opposed.
A string of German administrations have promised change, but lingering complexes over the experience of World War II, the cost of absorbing former Communist East Germany and other economic constraints have checked the pace of modernization.
Political miscalculations, false assumptions and what one called "an abundance of wishful thinking" led to a string of missteps, some administration officials say.
It was one of a string of lost opportunities, the administration official said, that may be the only thing in common between Mr. Clinton's White House and Mr. Bush's.
A politically connected solar company that pocketed a half billion dollar government loan, only to shutter its doors, fire workers and file for bankruptcy, secured an interest rate lower than other green energy projects, iWatch News and ABC News found -- one in a string of benefits the Obama administration doled out in bankrolling the project.
The decision brings to a close the last in a string of investigations into the Bush administration's 2006 firings of nine United States attorneys, including Mr. Iglesias.
It is the latest in a string of memoirs emerging from Bush administration figures trying to define the history of their tenure.
Yesterday's event was just the latest in a string of protests against the Bloomberg administration's effort to privatize school custodial services.
Despite a string of dismal employment reports, the administration insists that its economic program, which has relied entirely on tax cuts focused on the affluent, will produce big job gains any day now.
