White House officials say the administration is considering moving the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of New York City.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

House Financial Services Committee chairman Democrat Congressman Barney Frank has taken a lead role in working with the administration on regulatory reform.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

And last year, the Obama White House announced that senior administration appointees would work closely with the Census Bureau in supervising the 2010 Census.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

Senator McCain,who competed for the White House against then-candidate Obama last year, also harshly criticized the way the Obama administration announced this major policy change.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

House Speaker Pelosi agreed, saying Congress and the Obama administration must keep the door open to additional steps, even as the current stimulus plan begins to work.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

Treasury Secretary Geithner said the Obama administration will continue working with House and Senate lawmakers on details of the proposal as it moves into final legislative form.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo during his campaign for the White House, and he began the task of reversing the Bush administration's detainee policy immediately after taking office.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Late Thursday, the Democratic-led House and Senate voted in support of the administration's budget framework, which calls for higher spending on domestic programs like education and health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

The Obama administration opposed the resolution. After the measure passed, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration does not believe the full House of Representatives will or should vote on the resolution.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Appearing before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Middle East, Assistant Secretary Feltman was pressed by Democrats and Republicans about Obama administration support generally for Iranian reform advocates, and specifically about funding decisions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

A White House spokesman says the president will talk to the nation about what his administration has done to help clean up the oil, limit the environmental damage and direct BP to stop the leak.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

The House resolution calls the commission's report irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy and urges the Obama administration, which has already condemned it, to strongly oppose its endorsement by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

While President Obama has said the government should use every legal method to block the bonuses, and House and Senate lawmakers prepared legislation aimed at recovering funds, the administration and Congress also face legal complications in doing so.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

who has become one of the most prominent Republican critics of the Obama White House, said the Bush administration acted within legal guidelines to keep America safe after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Clinton said Indian Prime Minister Monmohan Singh, with whom she met earlier Monday, had accepted an invitation from President Obama to visit the White House November 24 for the first official state visit for the Obama administration.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

It was a different era. But General Myers spent many hours in the White House Situation Room, working with Bush administration officials on strategy for the two conflicts, just as current top officers are working with President Barack Obama and his team now on how to move forward in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The CBO projection is $7 trillion. The difference between the two estimates lies primarily in the fact that the CBO assumes the expiration of Bush administration-era tax cuts, while the White House is assuming that President Barack Obama will honor his pledge against allowing taxes to rise on families earning less than $250,000 a year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25