February 18, 2010 5:04 P.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Denver! (Applause.) Well, it is good to be back in Denver. (Applause.) Good to be in Colorado. And good to be campaigning for one of the finest young senators we have in the United States Senate, Michael Bennet. (Applause.) I…
President Obama to Announce Funding to Help Address Urgent Problems Facing Families in States with High Unemployment and Where Home Prices Have Fallen the Furthest Today, President Obama will announce funding for innovative measures to help families in the states that have been hit the hardest by…
The Defense Department has temporarily halted a popular employment assistance program for military spouses while it conducts a "top-to-bottom" review of its services.
The Defense Department is on track to transition the majority of its more than 220,000 civilian employees out of the National Security Personnel System by Sept. 30, more than a year ahead of deadline.
For the sixth year in a row, the Army in the nation's capital has contributed more than $3 million to the Combined Federal Campaign, the world's largest annual workplace charity program.
3:50 P.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Denver! (Applause.) I'm fired up! (Applause.) What a great crowd. (Applause.) Yes, we can. AUDIENCE: Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes, we can! THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Listen, let me first of all…
Schiff for Senate Dear Supporter, One year ago today President Obama signed the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” popularly known as the Stimulus Act, into law. The President and Democrats in Congress promised that this economic stimulus program would create jobs and strengthen…
Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania (LPPA)3915 Union Deposit Road #223Harrisburg, PA 17109www.lppa.orgFor Immediate Release: February 17, 2010Contact: Doug Leard (Media Relations) at Media-Relations@lppa.org orMichael Robertson (Chair) at 1-800-R-RIGHTS / chair@lppa.orgHarrisburg – If our state…
Today the President met with 24 human rights activists who are in Washington to attend a Human Rights Summit organized by two U.S. nongovernmental organizations, Freedom House and Human Rights First. The meeting was hosted by National Security Advisor General James Jones, and included other senior…
3:10 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: All right, fire away. Q Any more details you can tell us about the plane crash? MR. GIBBS: No -- as I said earlier, John Brennan briefed the President. We've gotten a number of updates on the flight from the Situation Room. The President will get regular…
The Path to Nuclear Security: Implementing the President’s Prague Agenda Ladies and gentlemen; Secretaries Gates and Chu; General Cartwright; Undersecretary Tauscher; Administrator D’Agostino; members of our armed services; students and faculty; thank you all for coming. At its founding, Elihu…
“My Administration is dedicated to ensuring that federal agencies treat all our citizens fairly, and the settlement in the Pigford case reflects that commitment. I applaud Secretary Vilsack for his efforts to modernize operations at the USDA, as well as the work of the Justice Department in…
We have known for some time that the best way to rob a bank is to own the bank. The extension that we are seeing now, is that the best way to rob a country is to own the country. From William Black: “They were able to get Congress to extort FASB, which is the Accounting Standards [...]
WASHINGTON, DC — New findings from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova critical for studying the dark energy that astronomers think pervades the universe. The results show mergers of two dense stellar remnants are the likely cause…
I have a hard time letting go of things, I guess its in my nature, I’m a Water Dragon, I wonder if it has anything to do with the five fingers I have on each of my claws, I’m still having trouble with Neil Young, how I really wanted to see him friday night, I [...]
“The President met this morning at the White House with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. The President stated his strong support for the preservation of Tibet’s unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity and the protection of human rights for Tibetans in the People’s Republic of…
11:05 A.M. EST MRS. OBAMA: Well, first, let me just officially welcome you to the White House, to my house. We're in the Old Family Dining Room, and this is the State Floor of the Residence, so this is where all the official functions happen. And we live upstairs, two floors upstairs. …
10:20 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. When I took office, America faced three closely linked challenges. One was a financial crisis, brought on by reckless speculation that threatened to choke off all lending. And this helped to spark the deepest recession since the Great…
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment. There is established within the Executive Office of the President the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform…
Names former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Senate Whip Alan Simpson as Commission Co-Chairs WASHINGTON – Today, President Obama will sign an executive order establishing the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and announce that…