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Obama: Food safety system is health 'hazard'

Saturday, 14 March 2009 09:15

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says the nation's decades-old food safety system is a "hazard to public health" and in need of an overhaul, starting with the selection of a new head of the federal Food and Drug Administration.

Obama used his weekly radio and video address to announce the nomination of former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as FDA commissioner, and his choice of Baltimore Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein as her deputy.

The president also said he was creating a Food Safety Working Group to coordinate food safety laws throughout government and advise him on how to update them. Many of these laws, essential to safeguarding the public from disease, haven't been touched since they were written in the time of President Theodore Roosevelt, he said.

Obama Signs Spending Bill as He Criticizes Its Earmarks

Wednesday, 11 March 2009 13:55
President Obama on Wednesday signed an “imperfect” spending bill packed with special projects in order to keep government running, but he vowed that it will be the last one and proposed ways to curb lawmakers from abusing the process in the future. Mr. Obama, trying to regain the high ground after withering criticism that he was betraying campaign promises by signing the $410 billion package, said that from now on he would seek to eliminate projects with “no legitimate public purpose.” He proposed that all projects be open to scrutiny at public hearings and those aimed at for-profit firms be subject to competitive bidding.
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Obama: 'We've let our grades slip'

Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:45

President Barack Obama on Tuesday embraced a new approach to public education that adds up to merit pay for the better teachers and longer days and school years for students.

These proposals, which constitute the new president's vision of an education system that meets 21st century challenges, were sure to generate loud criticism, particularly from teachers' unions.

Educators oppose charter schools because they divert tax dollars away from traditional public schools. Merit-based systems for teachers have been anathema to teachers' unions, a powerful force in Obama's Democratic Party.

Obama acknowledged this in his talk to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Many things about Barack Obama

Tuesday, 10 March 2009 19:51
1. Collecting comics like "Spider-Man" and "Conan the Barbarian" 2. Known as "O'Bomber" in his Basket Ball Team
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Health overhaul tests Obama's political skills

Monday, 09 March 2009 13:31

WASHINGTON - Embarking on arguably his most complex political fight yet, President Barack Obama is using skills honed during his presidential campaign and lessons learned from past failures to try to overhaul the health care system.

It's a feat none before him has achieved. As such, it would pay monumental dividends for a popular new president looking for history-making accomplishments ahead of his likely 2012 re-election campaign.

"Nothing is harder in politics than doing something now that costs money in order to gain benefits 20 years from now," Obama acknowledged last week.