The Obama administration on Monday requested a $300 million increase for the S.E.C., much to the delight of Mary L. Schapiro, the agency's chairwoman.
In a culture that encourages medical action, therapeutic omnipotence, and technological aspects of care [ 29], the administration of death by doctors on request may be culturally attractive.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday rejected a request for an emergency rule requiring gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of assault rifles, a proposal intended to make it harder for drug cartels to smuggle weapons.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — The Bush administration on Friday rejected a request from New York State to expand its children's health insurance program to cover 70,000 more uninsured youngsters, including some from middle-income families.
Right after the health care speech, the general introduced some new confusion into his stance on the administration's request for $87 billion in emergency spending on Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Clark Lays Responsibility for 9/11 at Bush's Feet" (news article, Oct. 29) says Gen . Wesley K. Clark"introduced some new confusion into his stance on the administration's request for $87 billion in emergency spending on Iraq and Afghanistan".
Meanwhile, top Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill said on Sunday that they would act swiftly on the administration's request, but not without setting their own conditions.
The Senate and House budget resolutions were silent on the administration's request for $750 billion in extra funds (with a budgeted cost of $250 billion).
Senate Republican leaders, preparing for whirlwind votes this week on the administration's request for $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, today forcefully rejected a growing Congressional sentiment to lend, rather than give, $20.3 billion of that to Iraq for its reconstruction.
"I don't believe it's our job to reconstruct the country," he said, words that may be thrown back at him as Congress begins hearings on the administration's request for $13 billion to do exactly that -- from getting the electricity back to establishing a financially credible central bank.
