The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Rhode Island and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local response efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding beginning on March 12, 2010, and continuing. The President's action authorizes the Department of…
4:56 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Please, everybody have a seat. Good afternoon. Bienvenue. I am delighted to welcome my dear friend, President Sarkozy, to the White House. And I also want to welcome to the United States the First Lady of France, and Michelle and I are very much looking…
2:18 P.M. EDT Q Sarkozy get here early? MR. GIBBS: Oooh, all right. Bonjour, Chuck. I was going to say, I don't know -- Q I was going to ask a question in French. MR. GIBBS: Well, he probably won't give you an answer. I have no announcements, so we can fire away. …
11:04 A.M. EDT AUDIENCE MEMBER: Fired up! THE PRESIDENT: Fired up! (Laughter.) AUDIENCE MEMBER: Obama! (Laughter.) DR. BIDEN: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for being here today. I’m Jill Biden and I am honored to be a community college instructor. (Applause.) I…
Legislation will end government subsidies to banks for guaranteed federal student loans and free nearly $68 billion for college affordability and deficit reduction WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, President Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which delivered a…
Back in 1999, I attended a forum called the National Conference for Public Interest Lawyers, which was basically a job fair for new lawyers. I knew I wanted to do environmental work, but I wasn’t quite sure exactly what that would look like or what was available. As I walked to the different…
March 29, 2010 Dear G20 Colleagues, In Pittsburgh we committed to make the G20 the premier forum for international economic co-operation. As the past, current, and future chairs of the G20 Leaders’ Summits, we are writing to you today to emphasise the need to implement our commitments to ensure…
NASA has contracted with ERC Inc., of Huntsville, Ala., for space technology research and development activities at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
NASA has awarded contracts to eight aerospace firms for Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III spacecraft and related services.
Beginning the second day of the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention conference, Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, commanding general of Army Materiel Command, noted the Army is fully engaged in preventing sexual harassment and assault.
With 2010 suicide numbers slightly above last year's and coming off the worst January on record, the Army National Guard is emphasizing resiliency, transition programs and the importance of asking for help.
In an effort to refine the role of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command in a continually transforming Army, Maj. Gen. Nick Justice, commanding general, and his board of directors recently approved a new command vision, mission statement and organizational objectives.
In a standing room only ceremony at the Pentagon March 25, the Army paid tribute to the three surviving members of the original 17-member "colored test platoon" of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion.
The Army's Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention program began its third annual summit in Arlington, Va., Monday, with Army leaders urging commanders to help stop the crime.
A Picatinny housing resident and spouse of a Soldier here recently won a first-place prize in the Army-wide Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation's 2009 All-Army Digital Photography Contest.
Online registration for the 2010 Army Ten-Miler is scheduled to open on April 1.
The senior enlisted Soldier in the Army, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston, visited Soldiers on the U.S. -led NATO mission in Kosovo March 27-28.
As North Dakota begins to draw down the number of National Guard members fighting floods, at least three other states are calling up personnel for the same mission.
President Obama received the credentials today of China’s new Ambassador to the United States, Zhang Yesui. During their meeting, the President stated his determination to further develop a positive relationship with China. He reaffirmed our one China policy and our support for the efforts…
Looking at their pictures, they don’t look like monsters. Crooks, maybe. Paid $1000 a day, after misrepresenting themselves, not such a bad gig.Except the misrepresentation consisted of made up stories of the efficacy of torture, and their expertise at it. And the client was the CIA.“But it…