Application Instructions
To apply, click on the application link. Once you have created an account and filled in the general information, you must select or fill in the name of a campus liaison or faculty sponsor who must approve your application if you are an undergraduate. Once approved, your application will be reviewed by The Washington Center. If accepted, you will receive an email notification and instructions to log in again to complete the housing request and emergency contact information. You may pay the deposit, if applicable, by credit card by calling The Washington Center finance office. Unless your institution is paying for the program, you will receive an invoice from The Washington Center. Full payment is required by Dec. 22, 2009.
AFP - US President Barack Obama Thursday called on lawmakers to break out of Washington's "partisan morass" and help create more jobs, before signing a 17.6 billion dollar employment bill into law.
AP - House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while also reducing the federal deficit in a bid to attract the backing of the party's fiscal conservatives.

AP - It may not bode well for Rep. Travis Childers that many voters in his rural Mississippi district have stronger opinions about President Barack Obama's health care plan than they do about the Democratic congressman.
AFP - President Barack Obama's historic health overhaul legislation would cut 130 billion dollars from the US budget deficit through 2019, according to figures provided by Democratic lawmakers.

AFP - The US House of Representatives will vote Sunday on President Barack Obama's historic health overhaul and he is expected to be in Washington despite plans to leave for Asia, a top ally said Thursday.


AFP - President Barack Obama denied a crisis was rocking US-Israeli relations as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived Thursday in Moscow for a meeting of the Middle East quartet.
