In a White House bill-signing ceremony Wednesday, the president reaffirmed a goal he set out early this year: to double exports of U.S.goods and services in the next five years.
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Rockefeller, the Vice Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, saying, this is a sell-out of the White House-sell-out to the WhiteHouse.
Perhaps a devastating flight from the dollar--the kind that precipitated the 1987 stock market crash--is needed to shake the WhiteHouse out of its damaging weak-dollar rut.
In a WhiteHouse that churns out micro-initiatives every day, Raines has squelched the Administration's habit of making such announcements without checking whether OMB has sanctioned a plan to pay for them with cuts elsewhere.