by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The annual salary for the director of the White House Visitors Office, Ellie S. Schafer, went from $70,000 in 2009 to $100,000 in 2012. According to annual reports to Congress on White House staff salaries, Schafer was paid $70,000 in 2009, $71,400 in 2010, $80,000 in...
by Jane Richey | Mar 7, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney declined to weigh in on the Dow hitting an all-time high on Tuesday, a development clashing with President Obama’s assertion that across-the-board spending cuts would imperil the economy. “I don’t comment on markets,” Carney...
by Jane Richey | Mar 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Thomas Freiden could not say whether his agency assisted the White House in preparing an estimate on the number of children in Maryland who supposedly would not get vaccines because of the sequester spending cuts, even though...
by Jane Richey | Mar 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Posted on the White House webpage: ATTN Interested Parties, Due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration, we regret to inform you that White House Tours will be canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013 until further notice. Unfortunately, we will not be...
by Jane Richey | Mar 6, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed a directive that places 28 percent of the “estimated economically recoverable oil” in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska off-limits. The 22.8-million acre reserve in Alaska’s North Slope has been protected as an oil...
by Jane Richey | Mar 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The White House may be closed to spring break visitors because of staff shortages blamed on spending reductions, but it looks like the White House Easter Egg roll, a party for 35,000 hosted by the Obama family, is still on. Since public tours of the White House are...
