While these unions applauded the administration for increasing education financing to help prevent teacher layoffs, many teachers have criticized the administration's efforts to shake up public education by supporting more charter schools and more aggressive efforts to dismiss ineffective teachers.
Labor leaders, who have long lobbied for the regulations, applauded the administration's move, asserting that it was wrong for the government to award contracts to corporations that repeatedly violate labor, environmental or other laws.
Some in Congress applauded the administration's position.
Reflecting the changing political climate, both Fannie Mae and its leading rivals applauded the administration's package.
Meanwhile, Texas — which also has a contingent of National Guard personnel along the border — applauded the administration's announcement.
Ms. Wilensky, on the other hand, applauded the administration for financing just such studies to reduce ineffective but expensive treatments.
But Mr. Reicher applauded the administration for talking more positively about energy efficiency than it had recently.
In defending his own first-term record, President Obama applauded his administration's energy regulations for creating "tens of thousands of good American jobs" (Obama 2013b).
It applauded the administration for its intervention in Afghanistan after September 11 , 2001 and urged a fully resourced effort to build a stable government in that country.
Franklin W. Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America, an industry trade group, applauded the administration for moving swiftly, but said its plan did not assist the industry enough after next year.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal Massachusetts Democrat who accompanied Mr. Quayle for part of the trip, applauded Bush Administration foreign policy, sometimes even more enthusiastically than Mr. Quayle.
