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Barack Versus Business.(Scope)(President Barack Obama's economic policy)(Brief article)
Byline: Michael Freedman
Barack Obama may turn out to be the most anti-big-business president in decades. His gentle bank bailouts are obscuring a get-tough stand on corporations, particularly abroad. Obama's choice for U.S. trade representative was the mayor of Dallas, with scant trade experience, suggesting the administration has little real interest in pushing the corporate case for free trade. The Justice Department has vowed to aggressively prosecute companies for bribing foreign officials, even though global money flows are falling and few other nations go after foreign bribery with anywhere near the zeal of the United States. Obama trumpets his ability to prioritize, but personally announced a crackdown on corporate abuse of overseas tax havens like the Cayman Islands. In doing so, he was making good on a campaign promise to rein ...
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- Magazine article from: National Review June 22, 2009 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Review March 23, 2009 700+ words
To lead the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, a post calling for nonpartisan, academic rigor, Obama chose Dawn Johnsen, a Bush-bashing, left...
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- Magazine article from: National Review McCarthy, Andrew C. March 9, 2009 700+ words
...pregnancy as slavery? Apparently so: Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen, Pres. Barack Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Yale-educated and ACLU-trained, Johnsen already has done...
- Obama Justice Department Seeks Dismissal of Torture Lawsuit
- Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Pasquini, Elaine September 1, 2009 700+ words
In a June 12 court filing that disappointed many of President Barack Obama's supporters, the Justice Department asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to set aside its April 28 ruling which allowed plaintiffs Binyam...
- Tarp Evolves.(troubled asset relief program)(Barack Obama nominates Christine...
- Newspaper article from: Mergers & Acquisitions Report March 9, 2009 700+ words
...New DOJ antitrust chief has FTC lineage President Barack Obama nominated Christine Varney, a former Federal Trade Commissioner, to the role of Justice Department antitrust chief. Varney, a partner at Hogan & Hartson LLP...
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Feuerherd, Joe November 14, 2008 700+ words
...Can A Catholic Support Him?: Asking the Big Question About Barack Obama. A former dean of The Catholic University of America law school and a high-ranking Justice Department official in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H...
- What gives in Washington? As the Obama administration goes to court in support...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Signorile, Michelangelo August 1, 2009 700+ words
...appears that the Justice Department's DOMA brief in...Christopher Hammer, the Justice Department stated that...The idea that Barack Obama, a man who ran...submitted by Obama's Justice Department. The administration...
- Cool warriors.(THE OUT YEARS)(Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's proposed...
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Schmitt, Mark January 1, 2008 700+ words
...movement came from a worry, as the Justice Department said in its brief in Brown v. Board...as is clear from her denunciation of Barack Obama for being willing to meet with leaders...mastered much about Russia and Iran; and Barack Obama's vision on global issues, including...
