Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D.-Md.) told CNSNews.com that senators will question Dr. Donald Berwick during his confirmation hearings--even though Berwick was given a recess appointment by President Obama.
When making the case for the Obama administration’s legal challenge to Arizona’s new law against illegal immigration, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said “no administration has been tougher” on immigration enforcement than the Obama administration.
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said it was “very clear” that President Barack Obama’s nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was going to be “dragged on and on” by Republicans, and with the “challenges” facing America’s health care system, it was “vitally important that we fill this position” without a Senate confirmation hearing.
Census ‘Successfully Completed’ Work To Date Despite ‘Shaky’ Computer Problems, Said Census Director
The director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Dr. Robert Groves, told CNSNews.com that the Census “successfully completed” all operations to date despite a “shaky” information technology (IT) system that affected the early weeks of door-to-door counting.
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs dodged the questions of whether President Obama agrees with his new Medicare director that the health-care system must redistribute wealth.
U.S. Census Bureau Director Dr. Robert Groves told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that the Census has “no way, unfortunately, of knowing whether or not homeless individuals were counted twice,” and added, “we may have duplicates.”
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan admitted that language found in her handwriting in her White House files ended up in ACOG's statement on partial-birth abortion, but insists the idea was ACOG's.
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan recusing herself from any case she took a “formal position” on as solicitor general would be an “appropriate position to take” under the applicable federal law.
When asked whether the Catholic Church would have been able to recruit at Harvard Law even though it does not allow female priests, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said all recruiters needed to sign a form saying they did not discriminate based on gender and sexual orientation.
President Barack Obama said the U.S. border cannot be secured with fences and border patrols.