44, Day 48: Time to Move On

An ongoing log of the daily activities of the 44th president of the United States during his first 100 days:

-Any notion that President Obama would veto the $410 billion emergency spending bill for the rest of this fiscal year should be forgotten. "So we face a basic question: Is it uglier than we'd like? Yes. But again, this was negotiated last year. We think we should just move on," Peter Orszag, Obama's budget director, told CNN's "State of the Union" program. About 2 percent of the measure contains funding for lawmakers' pet projects, the kind of pork Obama campaigned against last year.

-Marking the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday"--the day in 1965 when Alabama state troopers beat a group of civil rights marchers--President Obama's attorney general went to Selma to pledge an end to the "scourge of racial profiling. Eric Holder, the first African American to hold the nation's top law enforcement post, said the Justice Department would strengthen its approach to civil rights enforcement.
"Under my leadership, the Civil Rights Division will fight discrimination and inequality just as fiercely as the Criminal Division fights crime," Holder said.

Sources: Politico and CNN.