Tuesday, February 24, 2009:

Google News Alert for White House

Health spending takes rising share of US economy Reuters - USA By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health spending will hit $2.5 trillion this year, devouring 17.6 percent of the economy, as the White House and ... See all stories on this topic

Schwarzenegger makes friends in the White House San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA At the White House on Monday, the president singled out Schwarzenegger as one of several governors who were "out there consistently promoting the plan. ... See all stories on this topic

Macon Phillips: The man behind WhiteHouse.gov Chicago Tribune - United States Phillips works for President Barack Obama as the White House's new media director, a new job for an administration that embraces technology. ... See all stories on this topic

With Spending Set, at Least for Now, the Knives Come Out New York Times - United States President Obama greeted members of Congress who attended his “fiscal responsibility summit” at the White House on Monday. By JACKIE CALMES WASHINGTON — The ... See all stories on this topic

Obama challenge to local governments is welcome San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA In a 20-minute White House address to the US Conference of Mayors on Friday, President Obama laid out his plans for national recovery - and warned there ... See all stories on this topic

Spending bill includes $3.8B in projects USA Today - USA On the White House website, Obama promises to "slash earmarks to no greater than 1994 levels" — a campaign promise that he has said would cap earmarks at ... See all stories on this topic

Prospects Dim for Marine One Upgrade Washington Post - United States ... effort an example of military procurement "gone amok" and said he thinks the existing White House helicopter fleet "seems perfectly adequate. ... See all stories on this topic

George Clooney Meets With Biden at White House to Discuss Sudan Bloomberg - USA 24 (Bloomberg) -- George Clooney met with Vice President Joseph Biden at the White House last night to discuss the Academy Award-winning actor’s trip to ... See all stories on this topic

'A Chicago Tea Party' Chicago Tribune - United States As if those comments weren't intemperate enough, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs did his unlevel best to match Santelli's withering tone. ... See all stories on this topic

Obama plans a more transparent budget Los Angeles Times - CA,USA For years, the White House and Congress have engaged in a kind of Kabuki theater around the federal deficit. The president would release a budget in ... See all stories on this topic

Google Blogs Alert for: White House

FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Money Week Begins; White ... By pocket99s@gmail.com (Sean Quinn) Today, a summit on fiscal responsibility here at the White House. Tomorrow, Obama addresses a joint session of Congress to outline his budget and make the rhetorical case. Thursday, Obama’s Tuesday night rhetoric is revealed in detail. ... FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

Christina Bellantoni: Clooney gets White House Darfur promise By Christina Bellantoni Clooney gets White House Darfur promise - The Huffington Post. The Blog - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/

TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Obama Admin Backs Bushies On ... By Zachary Roth The Obama administration is siding with the Bush administration in trying to kill a lawsuit brought by watchdog groups that seeks to gain access to Bush White House emails, reports the Associated Press. ... TPMMuckraker - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/

McCain at the White House, Questions Obama About Helicopter - The ... By By Peter Baker Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Senator John McCain was flanked by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and Senator Lindsey Graham during the fiscal responsibility summit at the White House on Monday. ... The Caucus - http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/

White House Live Blogs the Oscars - Cinematical By Peter Martin The White House President Obama watched his first Academy Awards from the White House last night. Following in the footsteps of last week's well-received liveblogging of the President's first foreign trip, a White House New Media intern ... Cinematical - http://www.cinematical.com/

Google Web Alert for: White House

Obama pledges $15B for Medicaid, answers critics Feb 23, 2009 ... Obama's summit at the White House, which was coming at close of a three-day meeting of the nation's governors, was the first such forum of ...