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CNN Poll: Favorable opinion of Dick Cheney on the rise

politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com • Thu 2009 May 21, 8:56pm

The same day Dick Cheney delivered a major speech on the battle against terrorism, a new national poll suggests that favorable opinions of the former vice president are on the rise.

Harvard student takes on Rep. Frank

myfoxboston.com • Tue 2009 Apr 7, 9:39pm

"How much responsibility, if any, do you have for the financial crisis?" ... Frank can't answer because he's never admitted an ounce of wrongdoing. He's a disgrace and should have the decency to resign in disgrace. In fact, if he admitted what everyone already knows about his involvement, I'd have more respect for him. Watch as Barney Frank, among many others, claim that nothing is wrong at Fannie/Freddie....

Inhofe talks troop withdrawal, stimulus, Guantanamo Bay

examiner-enterprise.com • Sun 2009 Mar 1, 4:17pm

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) addressed the recently approved stimulus, the Guantanamo Bay prison and troop withdrawal from Iraq while in Bartlesville on Friday to discuss local water issues. Inhofe, who opposed passage of the $787 billion federal stimulus bill, referred to stimulus funds as "welfare" during his visit, and said Oklahoma will get $1.9 billion in stimulus funds. "It's 7 percent stimulus and 93 percent welfare, that's essentially what we have and it is huge..."

Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency

tamupress.com • Tue 2008 Nov 11, 10:28pm

With its creation of the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency in 1916, Congress sought to bring the principles of "scientific management" to the federal government. Although this first staff agency in the executive branch lasted only a relatively short time, it was the first central agency in the federal government dedicated to improving the management of the executive branch. Mordecai Lee offers both a chronological history of the agency and a thematic treatment of the structure, staffing, and work processes of the bureau; its substantive activities; and its effects on the development of both the executive and the legislative branches.