Obama overhauls faith-based agency

Published 2/5/2009 by CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney at CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama will make changes Thursday to President Bush's controversial Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, partly to ensure religious groups that receive government money do not discriminate in hiring, administration officials said. Obama will sign an executive order that will strengthen the constitutional and legal grounding of the Office, two senior administration officials [...] (link)