Every commencement address by an administration official should encourage young graduates to get health insurance.
The Obama administration will try to pass an assault weapons ban, an administration official said Friday.
In the past, that type of coordination happened on an ad hoc basis, an administration official said.
Friday's policy change is expected to potentially affect 800, 000 people, an administration official told CNN on background.
"We'll be able to move forward now and get this done, " an administration official quoted Kasich as saying.
An administration official said Gore had spoken twice with Primakov on Tuesday, and described the tone of the conversations as businesslike.
An administration official said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also will attend.
An administration official said New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani made personal pitches to the White House at least twice on Kerik's behalf.
Twenty-six more states, plus the District of Columbia, have applied, and all are expected to eventually receive them, an administration official said.
The military would operate and fly the drones, an administration official told CNN, but targeting would still be done jointly by various agencies.
An administration official, also speaking on condition of not being identified, told CNN the White House was notified Sunday night about what happened.
Earlier Friday, an administration official said the Justice Department had been "taken to task" for not coordinating its announcement with Homeland Security and other agencies.
Obama directed the Justice Department to provide access to the secret document to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees, an administration official said Wednesday.
We're pushing hard to pass an inclusive employee non-discrimination bill. (Applause.) For the first time ever, an administration official testified in Congress in favor of this law.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was briefed, and she ordered her department to provide "whatever assistance is necessary" to state and local authorities, an administration official said.
Earlier in the day, the president met with FBI Director Robert Mueller, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, an administration official said.
The Obama administration will also seek a passage of an assault weapons ban as part of a push for new gun control laws, an administration official said Friday.
"We are concerned, " an administration official told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
It is easy to stand in Washington, whether you're a congressman on Capitol Hill, or a reporter here, or an administration official, and suggest that this is all abstract.
"There have to be some steps by the Palestinians and some reciprocation by the Israelis if we are going to restore trust and dialogue on both sides, " said an administration official.
An administration official told CNN the sample size of the annual government survey will be expanded to more than 22, 000 teenagers as the more specific questions about smoking habits are added.
The U.S. Treasury will give priority to making interest payments to holders of government bonds if lawmakers fail to reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, according to an administration official.
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President George W. Bush would prefer not to make airport security screeners employees of the federal government but he would sign such a bill if Congress passed it, an administration official said on Sunday.
The announcement came shortly after an administration official said that President Barack Obama had yielded to demands that he turn over to Congress the classified Justice Department legal advice that seeks to justify the policy.
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An administration official said the president and Vice President Joe Biden convened a meeting in the White House Situation Room with his top national-security officials, to follow up on briefings he had received through the night.
"Seeing an armed officer with a federal badge as you go through the checkpoint is going to be a familiar sight, if not at every airport, then at most, " an administration official involved in the deliberations said.
An administration official said that on at least two occasions Giuliani made a personal pitch to the White House that Kerik be named to succeed Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, 59, who announced his resignation Tuesday.
The panel also will urge increasing the presence of U.S. inspectors from Customs, the Border Patrol, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other agencies in countries that are major exporters to the United States, an administration official said.
An administration official said the White House had been working on the statement since November with input from several agencies, and White House Chief of Staff William Daley met in December with leaders of both sides, including former Sen.
The hurried release of the Environmental Assessment last Friday capped a frenzied two days behind the scenes at the White House and FDA. Within hours after the Slate article and leaked document were posted, an administration official notified the FDA that the administration was dropping its indefinite hold.
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