The appointment of a long-overdue administration chief will, one hopes, help lead the T.S.A. in this direction.
"We had not done this, and it was overdue," the administration official said, although Mr. Obama and Hu Jintao, China's president, have met a half dozen times since early last year.
It was also helped by the Bush administration's overdue attention to peacemaking since the Annapolis conference and by the serious economic recovery plan presented by the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, an economist.
"While today's action by the administration is overdue," House speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement, "it is an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia.
Bergen County, in the dry and populous northeast, imposed its own water regulations, including a ban on unsolicited glasses of water in restaurants, on Feb. 12. County Executive William P. Schuber said through a spokesman that action by the state's new Democratic administration was overdue.
This common-sense solution by the administration is long overdue, and I applaud the president for pursuing it.
Last summer the Obama administration announced an overdue change in the way it catches and deports illegal immigrants.
"Firing its economic team is an overdue admission by the Bush administration that its economic policies have failed," said Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Senate's Democratic leader.
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He told me that the order was a long overdue signal by the Trump administration that it was going to craft more specific polices with regards to the Supreme Court's landmark Hobby Lobby case.
The Obama administration has requested long overdue increases in both budget and staff for the S.E.C., and has plans to add as many as 374 employees.
