This week in our series, Leo Scully and Jack Weitzel tell how these issues were handled during the administration of President Benjamin Harrison.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

"No one in the administration is talking about a second stimulus at this point."

VOA: special.2009.07.10

"You know that this administration is committed to a broad-based comprehensive peace dealing with all the different players in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

This is a very high priority for this administration and we're going to pursue this vigorously in the coming months."

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Ethiopia's army entered Somalia in 2006 to drive out an al-Shabab backed administration in Mogadishu, but encountered stiff opposition and withdrew earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

"The question that should be put to Congress is how we can partner with this administration to reduce the rampant levels of corruption in Afghanistan."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

He has a long history in law enforcement. "I'm very pleased that, one,President Calderone is very courageous, in his administration, in taking this issue on."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

"In fairness to this administration, they locked down their forecasts three months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

The Obama administration deployed thousands of additional troops in Afghanistan this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

"It is very important," "I think the failure to pass health-care legislation this year will be a tremendous setback for the administration and for the leadership in Congress."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

MENENDEZ: "I'm just not here a blank check. I said that in the previous administration, and as much as I respect this one, I believe the same standards have to apply."

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

We know that they are the job creators in this economy,". "And the problem with, I think we are seeing out of the Obama administration, is a lack of focus on how to get things going again."

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

"Our effort here in writing this letter is just urging caution because we're hoping that with the new administration, we will have an administration that will lend itself more to diplomacy and working through other means rather than always military confrontation,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

"And that in November we turn out in record numbers to show this administration that we are serious about spending, that we are serious about tax reform and that we are serious about bringing common sense back to the United States of America."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

In the first 51 days of this president, the administration has passed a series of really dramatic moves: the biggest financial rescue package that we have seen in decades, the largest stimulus in the history of the country, the biggest home foreclosure prevention and mortgage assistance program since the Depression."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Dr.Leslie Miller at Washington Hospital Center is involved in clinical trials of heart pumps, including this one that the U.S.Food and Drug Administration has approved as a device that can permanently replace the heart for patients who are too old to be considered for a heart transplant.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

"This was a very important trip that both President Obama and I wanted to make early in the administration to send a very clear message that the Obama administration is committed to developing an even stronger and closer relationship with, not just the governments, but especially the peoples of Africa,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

That is our mission,". "And the president described it in no uncertain terms in his inaugural when he said, 'Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.' And to win this war against al-Qaida, the administration continues to be unrelenting, using every tool in its toolbox and every arrow in its quiver,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06