The Obama administration declined to appeal, allowing a May 3, 2009, deadline to pass, leaving Witt as binding on the entire Ninth Circuit, and returning the case to the District Court.

The Obama administration responded by requesting that the policy be allowed to stay in place while they completed the process of assuring that its end would not impact combat readiness.

The Obama administration stated that it preferred to allow children already enrolled in the program to finish their schooling while closing the program to new entrants.

She became a U. S. Senator from New York in 2001 and is currently the Secretary of State in the Obama administration.

In September 2009, the Obama administration engaged in a verbal conflict with Fox News Channel.

Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( signed March 30 ), the Act is a product of the health care reform efforts of the Democratic 111th Congress and the Obama administration.

The program's funding was denied in 2011 by the Obama administration and the Constellation program ended.

The administration of U. S. President Barack Obama announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and police to 400, 000 active units.

In September 2010, in the light of the failure to repeal the " Don ’ t Ask, Don ’ t Tell " policy ( which banned openly gay people from serving in the military ) during the Obama administration, the Libertarian Party urged gay voters to stop supporting the Democratic Party.

The last and only proposed Constitution adopted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention in 2009 was rejected by the U. S. Congress in 2010, which urged the convention to reconvene to address the concerns Congress and the Obama administration have had with the proposed document.

Following his tenure, he has been very critical of the Obama administration, especially its treatment of terror detainees, which was something that Cheney had great authority and experience over throughout his tenure.

In 2009, the United States Obama administration set up the Green New Deal, an ambitious plan to create millions of jobs in sectors related to greenery.

In 2009, O ' Rourke described the Presidency of Barack Obama as " the Carter administration in better sweaters ".

According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

During 2010, a local of the American Federation of Government Employees stated their unhappiness that a longstanding flextime program reduced under the George W. Bush administration had not been restored under the Obama administration.

Steven Chu became the first Asian American to hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under the administration of Barack Obama.

* Van Jones, former Green Jobs Advisor to the Obama administration

The Obama administration urged Karzai to exclude ineffective or corrupt officials from the new government, while powerful Afghans who helped deliver his re-election were demanding positions.

He returned to Haiti from South Africa on March 18, 2011 over the strong objections of the Obama administration.

The Obama administration projects that the reorganization would save $ 3 billion and will help the administration's goal of doubling U. S. exports in five years.

The Obama administration plan faced criticism for some of its elements.

Federico Peña, secretary of energy in the Clinton administration and co-chairman of Barack Obama ’ s 2012 re-election campaign, reacted negatively to the proposal, envisioning " 50 different kinds of rules and regulations for industry I think would drive crazy ".

In May 2009, after founder Susan P. Crawford had joined the Obama administration, Kapor took over chairmanship of OneWebDay-the " Earth Day for the internet ".

General Motors would eliminate an additional 7, 000 to 8, 000 factory jobs in the United States and shed 2, 600 dealers by 2010 under a revised business plan developed with the Obama administration.

In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, U. S. President Barack Obama announced that Clinton and George W. Bush would coordinate efforts to raise funds for Haiti's recovery.

Nineteen days after his election, Obama's advisers announced that plans to repeal the policy might be delayed until 2010, because Obama " first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus, and then present legislation to Congress.

After U. S. President Barack Obama announced the deployment of another 30, 000 soldiers in 2010 for a period of two years, Der Spiegel published images of the US soldiers who killed unarmed Afghan civilians.

As of August 2012, Lynch has not announced support for President Barack Obama ’ s reelection efforts.

On Thursday, May 17, 2012, the White House Press Office announced that President Barack Obama had nominated Derek Mitchell to the U. S. Senate for confirmation to serve as U. S. Ambassador to Burma.

According to the Washington Post, in December 2009, after US President Barack Obama announced he would deploy 30, 000 more U. S. soldiers, and that Washington wants others to follow suit, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted with the message that Turkey would not contribute additional troops to Afghanistan.

However, on November 14, 2009, the New York Times announced that " President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement ... agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to reach a less specific " politically binding " agreement that would punt the most difficult issues into the future ".

On 23 March 2012, U. S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States would nominate Jim Yong Kim as the next President of the Bank.

Hanks made public his presidential candidate choice in the 2008 election when he uploaded a video to his MySpace account in which he announced his endorsement of Barack Obama.

During a state visit to India in November 2010, US president Barack Obama announced US support for India's bid for permanent membership to UN Security Council as well as India's entry to Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement, Australia Group and Missile Technology Control Regime.

On December 8, 2008, President Barack Obama announced he would nominate retired army General Eric Shinseki to be the 7th Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

During a state visit to India in November 2010, US president Barack Obama announced US support for India's bid for permanent membership to UN Security Council as well as India's entry to Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement, Australia Group and Missile Technology Control Regime.

On January 13, 2012, President Obama announced his intentions to ask the United States Congress for the power to close the department and replace it with a new cabinet-level agency focused on trade and exports.

Barack Obama announced Vilsack's selection to be the United States Secretary of Agriculture under his administration on December 17, 2008.

On December 17, 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama announced his choice of Vilsack as the nominee to be the 30th Secretary of Agriculture.

Hours after it was announced by President Barack Obama that Osama bin Laden had been killed, CAIR put out a statement: " We join our fellow citizens in welcoming the announcement that Osama bin Laden has been eliminated as a threat to our nation and the world through the actions of American military personnel.

In June 2008, after Senator Barack Obama became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Dean announced that the DNC, emulating the Obama campaign, would no longer accept donations from federal lobbyists.

* On April 27, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that Juliette Low would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

On January 4, 2012, Obama announced recess appointments to three seats on the board: Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn, and Richard Griffin.

On 19 August 2010, U. S. President Barack Obama announced that all U. S. combat operations will end on 31 August.

This system was given major new importance by President Obama in September 2009, when he announced plans to scrap the plans for a missile defense site in Poland, in favor of missile defense systems located on US Navy warships.

On May 9, 2012, President Barack Obama announced in an interview with ABC News that after wrestling with the subject for many years, he had come to believe same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.