On January 4th, the president-elect left his house in Chicago to join his family in Washington and prepare to take office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

But from his office in the White House, he must also attend to his other duties as president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Those were the words of Rob Nabors, deputy director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

The House Democratic leader, Speaker Sam Rayburn, invited a friend to come by his office for a drink.

VOA: special.2011.07.28

He is the associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

VOA: special.2011.06.02

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy provided a statement about sports doping to VOA.

VOA: special.2011.04.12

The White House budget office on Tuesday lowered its estimate for this year's federal deficit.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Streamlining soon extended to furniture and other objects for the house and office.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

For example, the West Wing of the White House includes the Oval Office.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The House can also remove federal officials from office.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Senate and House bills would save $132 billion and $138 billion respectively.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo during his campaign for the White House, and he began the task of reversing the Bush administration's detainee policy immediately after taking office.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Legislation the Senate passed and the version the House of Representatives approved earlier have both been estimated by the independent Congressional Budget Office to cost in the upper $800 billion range.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The White House and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office,or CBO, project a federal deficit of about $1.6 trillion for the current fiscal year a record-high, although slightly less than had been projected a few months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

But the White House and the Congressional Budget Office say that America's national debt will continue to expand for years to come, even assuming that the U.S.economy will begin to recover at the end of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

In an off-year election seen by some political pundits as a measure of support for President Barak Obama's popularity after his first year in office, the opposition Republicans have picked up the state house in two formerly Democratic states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"Or whether it is really even a wave." Hawkings says Democrats say there is no upcoming Republican "wave" which will sweep scores of them from office, pointing to a special election for the U.S.House seat for the late Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19