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The White House issued an executive order this year making it more difficult for senior administration officials seeking employment with government contractors to get waivers exempting them from many of the ethics rules as they negotiated their post-government jobs.

But the news of Justice Ginsburg's condition had to be a jolt for senior administration officials, who were already aware of the crushing time frame to deal with a series of major policy matters.

There are established channels and protocols for senior administration officials to ask questions and clarify points about the intelligence they do receive.

Mr. Kean said an interview that was broadcast Wednesday by CBS News was being misinterpreted as suggesting that he was calling for the departure of senior administration officials.

Later, he twice was Mr. Obama's acting budget director and was considered for other senior administration positions, including trade representative, before leaving the administration last April.

President Barack Obama has fired top Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal for mocking senior administration officials in Rolling Stone magazine, and replaced him with General David Petraeus, who previously led operations in Iraq.

WASHINGTON — President Obama will propose in his State of the Union address a package of modest initiatives intended to help middle-class families, including tax credits for child care, caps on some student loan payments and a requirement that companies let workers save automatically for retirement, senior administration officials said Sunday.

Of those, just under 40 have been cleared for release, a senior administration official said.

"Every day this goes on is more painful for him," one senior administration official said.

"It's odd, and there is no technical explanation for it," the senior administration official said at a briefing.

"Let's put it this way, we're not going to rush to make it easy for them," one senior administration official said on Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.