[Mila]

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

White House to get $376M renovation
First extensive update since Truman era
Comments

May 22, 2010

GANNETT NEWS

From the linked article-

“The price tag is more than 100 times the total cost of building the White House in the 1790s, Bloomberg reports.

Congress approved funding for the project in 2008 after some of the systems in the White House were deemed to be approaching the end of their “reliable productivity.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/2304420,CST-NWS-whitehouse23.article

[maggief]

Neither the AP or Getty saw fit to report the renovations in their images.

Pathetic. : o /

[Big Horn]

You could be right.

[JudyinCanada]

I wonder if the renos were approved in November/December 2008....just for the new occupant.

[Don Corleone]

Congress approved funding for the project in 2008 after some of the systems in the White House were deemed to be approaching the end of their “reliable productivity.”

That would have been Bush!