Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Neera Tanden set to leave Obama administration
Neera Tanden, senior adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is leaving the Obama administration to return to the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal policy think tank she was associated from the very outset with founder John Podesta, President Bill Clinton's chief of staff from 1998-2001.
The CAP announced her appointment on its Web site Feb. 19. The news was first carried by The New Republic, a CAP publication, in its Feb. 18 online issue. Tanden, one of the key figures who policed the health-care bill through Congress, had been hopeful of the legislation getting approved when she spoke to News India Times before the Christmas break
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The CAP announced her appointment on its Web site Feb. 19. The news was first carried by The New Republic, a CAP publication, in its Feb. 18 online issue. Tanden, one of the key figures who policed the health-care bill through Congress, had been hopeful of the legislation getting approved when she spoke to News India Times before the Christmas break
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Labels: clinton staff, health policy goals, neera tanden, obama administration
Monday, July 20, 2009
Clinton has a hard task to make visit to india a success
For a Secretary of State to President Barrack Obama, who has captured the imagination of India, a person, who is well known and liked in India, the first chair of the India "Caucus" in the Senate, a presidential candidate, who received massive support from the Indian Americans, Hillary Clinton is arriving in India a little too late.
She has been in office for nearly six months and she has already visited some other countries in Asia and some of her pronouncements in China have caused concern in India. There are other reasons for her to reassure India that the strategic partnership between the two countries is intact. She, therefore, has a hard task ahead of her to make the visit a success.
Of course, the Obama Administration had to wait till the elections in India. Like everyone else, the US might also have expected change in India.
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She has been in office for nearly six months and she has already visited some other countries in Asia and some of her pronouncements in China have caused concern in India. There are other reasons for her to reassure India that the strategic partnership between the two countries is intact. She, therefore, has a hard task ahead of her to make the visit a success.
Of course, the Obama Administration had to wait till the elections in India. Like everyone else, the US might also have expected change in India.
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To read the ePpaer, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com/
Labels: China, clinton visit, india visit, Indian Government, intact, obama administration, strategic partnership, terrorism, united states and india, united states voted for change
Monday, April 27, 2009
Pakistan is ‘abdicating to the Taliban', Secretary Clinton says
The Pakistani government "is basical ly abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress on April 22 in an unusually blunt statement that reflects the unease within the Obama administration about an agreement authorized by President Asif Ali Zadari last week.
The agreement would permit sharia, or Islamic law, in the Swat Valley - just 100 miles west of the capital, Islamabad - and was reached after the Pakistani military failed to rout Taliban fighters there.
Clinton, appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tempered her remarks by saying that the Pakistani government needs to improve its delivery of justice and services - precisely what leaders there aim to do with billions of dollars in new U.S. assistance.
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The agreement would permit sharia, or Islamic law, in the Swat Valley - just 100 miles west of the capital, Islamabad - and was reached after the Pakistani military failed to rout Taliban fighters there.
Clinton, appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tempered her remarks by saying that the Pakistani government needs to improve its delivery of justice and services - precisely what leaders there aim to do with billions of dollars in new U.S. assistance.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com/
Labels: Clinton, islamic law, obama administration, pakistan government, pakistani military, president asif ali zadari, senator clinton, Swat Valley, Taliban, taliban fighters, United states
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