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White House Orders Deeper Federal Travel Cuts, New Meetings Policies
The White House Office of Management and Budget on Friday instructed federal agencies ..... BTN there were some similarities. "A lot of the proposals that the White House issued on Friday are very similar to our proposals to increase and strengthen …
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Obama Signs Executive Order To Ease Inbound International Travel
The White House indicated that President Barack Obama today would sign an executive order and announce other initiatives to facilitate inbound …
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Obama Order Calls For Federal Travel Spending Cuts
President Barack Obama this week signed an executive order calling for federal agencies to reduce spending, including travel costs, by 20 percent, or about $4 billion, according to White House press secretary Jay Carney.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed the four-year $59.7 billion Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization and Reform Act(2)
… will reconcile a final version to submit to President Barack Obama. However, earlier this week, a statement from the White House indicated that Obama would veto an FAA bill that constrained the unionization of workers.
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Biden: Obama Budget To Include Another $8 Billion For High-Speed Rail
Vice President Joe Biden announced that the Obama administration will dedicate another $8 billion toward high-speed rail in the proposed U.S. federal budget expected next week. The plan calls for $53 billion over six years "to continue construction of a national high-speed and intercity passenger
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The 25 Most Influential Executives Of The Business Travel Industry Of 2010
… 000 a day. Thousands of dollars of in-kind contributions also were reported. To the industry's dismay, the White House targeted a 13 percent reduction by 2020 in greenhouse gas pollution "from indirect sources, such as employee travel and commuting …
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President Barack Obama announced a transportation infrastructure program, including more high-speed rail development, a modern air traffic control system, updated runways and other...
… the integration of high-speed rail on an equal footing into the surface transportation program," according to a White House statement. It also would "rehabilitate or reconstruct 150 miles of runways--while putting in place a NextGen system …
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5Q With NBTA Executive Director Mike McCormick
Organizers of one education session at the National Business Travel Association convention in Houston solicited from attendees ideas about how the federal government and its suppliers could reduce travel-related carbon emissions without necessarily cutting travel. Participants reproduced a ...
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NBTA called the Obama Administration misguided and USTA branded as short-sighted the White House's target for a 13 percent reduction in greenhouse gas pollution by 2020. President Obama...
… unilateral action could undermine the slight recovery the travel industry is just now starting to experience." The White House statements, according to NBTA executive director Mike McCormick, "seem to imply that cutting travel is the goal …
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Obama To Nominate Retired Army Major General As TSA Administrator
… over 35 years working in the intelligence community, as a leader in both the military and the private sectors," the White House said in a statement. Most recently, Harding headed Harding Security Associates, which he founded in 2003 and sold …
