That Fort Hood memorial service forced President Barack Obama to delay his 10-day trip to Asia by a full day. He took off this morning. Thanks to the delay, he needed a pinch-hitter at a speech he was supposed to...
At Texas A&M, the crowd inside and the protesters outside are all awaiting the arrival of President Obama. The warm-up act has begun - a conversation on community service with panelists Melody Barnes, director of the domestic policy council; U.S....
Wow. This just isn't the sort of thing you say if you aspire to statewide elected office in the Great State of Texas: "There are few moments in my life where I'm embarrassed to say I'm from Texas. This was...
As we waited for the food to be served Saturday at Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell's wedding reception, U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk expressed no desire to run in a special election for the Senate seat expected to be...
With the uproar over President Barack Obama's speech to school kids still smoldering, the White House announced this afternoon that it will dispatch Cabinet members and other senior officials to schools nationwide. They'll watch the speech with students and talk...
Diplomacy is part of the job for U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor. But there was unvarnished chest-pounding today when Kirk -- heading to India for a round of world trade talks this week - announced...
No details from the press pool on the score of today's round of golf between President Barack Obama, Trade Representative Ron Kirk and a couple of Obama aides. They played 18 holes in 4 hours and 40 minutes and...
President Barack Obama -- back in Washington since yesterday after a week in Martha's Vinyard, but still on vacation - just arrived at the Army-Navy Country Club for a round of golf. It's a glorious mid-70s and sunny. Among the...
President Obama just spent a week in Moscow, figuring out if Medvedev or Putin is the guy with his finger on the button; at the G-8 summit near Rome, rubbing elbows with the other 7 and cementing a deal...
U.S. Trade ambassador Ron Kirk, the ex-Dallas mayor, will be getting his diplomatic passport stamped again next week. He's heading to St. Petersburg, Russia, for an international economic forum, where he is expected to sit down with Russia's economy minister...
The last time U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk was in Pretoria, South Africa, he was mayor of Dallas, leading his first overseas trade mission. This weekend, he'll return as President Obama's representative at the inauguration of South Africa's new president,...
President Barack Obama hit the links today at Andrews Air Force Base -- his first round of golf since taking office nearly 100 days ago. When you're the commander-in-chief, it's as easy to get a preferred tee time at...
No statement from Ron Kirk yet through the US Trade Representative office. But his law firm, Vinson & Elkins, just released a statement in his name. It doesn't focus much on trade policy. "The lawyers at Vinson & Elkins are...
The Senate voted 92-5 to confirm Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor, as the new U.S. Trade Representative, a cabinet-level post that comes with the title "ambassador." The final tally was announced at 2:28 p.m., Capitol Hill time. Both Texas...
The Senate has just begun voting on Ron Kirk's nomination. They didn't come close to using all 90 minutes set aside for his debate. Instead, senators focused on other business, with a handful popping in and out of Kirk/trade issue....
The Senate has begun the confirmation hearing for Ron Kirk's nomination as U.S. Trade Representative. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is the first senator at the microphone. ``With some reluctance I will vote to confirm Mr. Kirk's nomination," McCain said. "......
A Senate committee has just given the green light to turning former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk into -- in official parlance -- "United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary." We keep calling the post a...
That was a like one of those speed dating things you see on TV. Chairman Baucus ended the Kirk confirmation hearing 48 minutes after it started. By then, every other senator had hightailed it to the Senate floor for votes....
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has introduced former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk. "I would note that Mayor Kirk and I have not always been on the same side -- for example, who should have been elected to the United States Senate...
Ron Kirk's confirmation hearing is now underway. Here for moral and political support: his wife Matrice Ellis-Kirk and political supporters ranging from Demetris Sampson, Dallas political consultant Kathy Nealy and former city councilman Craig Holcomb. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson,...
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