Tim Geithner has “a wonderful giggle.”

We’ve noticed America hasn’t really warmed to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, and we’re wondering if that’s because people don’t really know him that well.  A “Wall Street Journal” poll points out that while 68 percent of Americans feel positively about President Obama, just 18 percent feel the same way about Sec. Geithner…51% say they don’t know him [...]

White House creates “Council on Women and Girls.”

Today President Obama signed an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls.  The group will be headed by White House senior advisor (and Obama BFF), Valerie Jarrett, and is tasked with making sure that “women and girls are treated fairly” by all policies agencies of the federal government.  
CJP thinks that’s an idea whose time has [...]

Stem Cell Event Spotlight: Susan Axelrod

Most Americans know David Axelrod is President Obama’s right-hand man, but few know that his wife, Susan (at left with daughter Lauren), founded and is now the president of CURE, a non-profit organization focused on finding a cure for epilepsy.  The Axelrods’ adult daughter, Lauren, was diagnosed with epilepsy at seven-months old and suffered permanent [...]

Who Is Kathleen Sebelius?

So glad you asked! You may have heard yesterday that President Obama announced his new nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary: Kathleen Sebelius, who is currently Governor of Kansas. So what do you need to know about this Kansas Jane? Read on for the highlights…

Kathleen Sebelius is a Democrat and the 44th governor of [...]

Taking A Look at the New Budget

This morning the White House released the Obama administration’s ambitious new budget blueprint for fiscal year 2010, which aims to halve the deep federal deficit by the end of Obama’s first term. The entire budget is 146 pages long, so since we know you’re busy women, we’ll give you the Cliffs Notes version. Unless you [...]

Oh Canada sings “O-Bama!”

President Obama has landed in Ottawa for his first foreign trip, and our exceedingly friendly northern neighbors are live blogging every detail at the CBC’s website HERE and broadcasting the visit live HERE.
Here’s an early report from a reporter at Canada’s version of Capitol Hill:
“At dawn on Parliament Hill there were only a dozen diehard [...]

Modification, Modification, Modification

If your neighborhood looks less like Wisteria Lane and more like Under Water World, you are just the homeowner President Obama will be talking to later today when he unveils his plan to tow the underwater real estate market back to dry land.
Will it work?  Who knows.  But here’s what it is, and what [...]

100 Days in 100 Minutes- Day 20

President Obama gathered no moss on his 20th day in office- hitting the road and the airwaves to sell his stimulus package as the Senate voted on cloture for the bill (you know what that means, right?).  Let’s see what he was up to:

President Obama started the day, as always, with an economic and national [...]