He also pressed Napolitano on whether the administration will offer administrative relief for young men and women who would be eligible for the DREAM Act, an executive power that Democrats have repeatedly asked the president to use.
And, this week, he rejected the administration's relief plan.
With such estimates in mind, American manufacturers asked the administration for relief in advance of any market disruption.
Hopkins was the wisecracking, street-smart son of a small-town Iowa harness maker, who had spent the early years of the New Deal administration running relief organizations.
For the business lobby, which had been anticipating another round of tax cuts next year from the Bush administration, tax relief may be harder to achieve than before.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, expressing relief on Sunday that the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate will be Egypt's next president, voiced cautious optimism that the choice could keep the country's rocky transition to democracy on track.
Perhaps these modern Conservatives hark back to the Poor Law Relief Act of 1723, when local justices of the peace were allowed to contract the administration of relief out to those who would feed, clothe and house the poor.
Mr. Natsios, who before joining the Bush administration organized relief efforts for some of the toughest places in Africa, including Somalia and Sudan, scoffed at the idea that the Taliban could benefit from American largess.
"For us, it's really important to ask the question of how inclusive is the Obama administration's relief going to be?" Vargas said.
He offers this against the backdrop of an administration foreclosure relief program, HAMP, the Home Affordable Modification Program, which has been a dismal failure.
That position is certain to infuriate housing advocates and delinquent homeowners, whose struggles to secure lower monthly payments from mortgage companies under the administration's relief program have become legion.
