CNN's Jessica Yellin recaps the White House's announcement that Chief of Staff Bill Daley is stepping down.
An apparently long-running dispute between the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its four other commissioners erupted Friday into public view when letters expressing "grave concerns" about his leadership were posted on a congressional website.
A senior administration official disputed a Wall Street Journal story that said Bill Daley, the White House chief of staff, was turning over day-to-day management of the West Wing.
Despite a mad scramble from lawmakers to reach some sort of debt ceiling deal before Asian exchanges opened, market reaction was muted Monday as investors continued to give Washington the benefit of the doubt.
The United States is holding back $800 million in aid to Pakistan, President Barack Obama's chief of staff said Sunday.
The U.S. is withholding $800 million in aid to Pakistan. CNN's Elise Labott reports.
Bill Daley doesn't tweet. He's not a big fan of e-mail. When Daley wants to connect, he picks up the phone and, depending on the situation, proceeds to cajole, console, commiserate, counsel -- or some combination thereof. It is a skill he's honed in more than two decades as a counselor to restless lawmakers, presidential candidates, and CEOs -- and one he's now employing as President Obama's new chief of staff and unofficial troubleshooter of the administration's badly damaged relationship with corporate America. "I've always thought politics was about relationships and people," Daley tells me in a rare interview (over the telephone, of course) about himself. Practicing politics, he adds, is not like practicing a golf swing. "It's about engaging people, listening to them, understanding what motivates them."
On Day 157 of operating without a full budget, and with 13 days to go before the latest short-term fix expires, lawmakers appear no closer to a deal to keep the government running.
President Obama will release his proposed budget in less than a week, and clues are starting to surface about what programs will be sacrificed to the gods of deficit reduction.
Vice President Joe Biden's communications director, Jay Carney, was named the new White House press secretary Thursday as part of a series of other big staff moves announced by new Chief of Staff Bill Daley.
As he drove to a Dunkin' Donuts in Nashville early on Election Day 2000, Bill Daley's reputation for being the calmest guy in the middle of a crisis was being severely put to the test.
William Daley says he is extremely honored to be chosen as President Obama's White House chief of staff.
William Daley, a member of an influential political family, has been a fixture in Washington politics and in the business community.
William Daley was named the new White House Chief of Staff. Who is he? Dan Lothian reports.
President Obama seems to be trying to rebuild his ties with corporate America, with the latest move being his plan to name prominent business leader William Daley as chief of staff.
President Obama has narrowed the list of candidates for White House chief of staff down to two -- current interim boss Pete Rouse and former Clinton Commerce Secretary William Daley -- according to two senior Democratic sources close to the process.
Commerce Secretary William Daley is reportedly one of the candidates to become the next White House Chief of Staff.
A massive oval to hold the ice, 165 feet below the ceiling, has been formed.
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