3:15 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. We just had a very productive session about the final stages of health care reform in the Senate. And from the discussions we had it’s clear that we are on the precipice of…
Archive: December 15, 2009
Home Depot Alexandria, Virginia 11:09 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Hello! Hello! (Applause.) Thank you guys. Thank you. Everybody, please have a seat. We’ve got a couple of special guests here today. First of all, the outstanding senator from…
President Obama congratulates President Traian Basescu of Romania on his re-election, which the Romanian Constitutional Court certified yesterday. Romania is a European Union and NATO member and a key ally of the United States. Americans stand with Romanians in Europe…
4:05 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Welcome to the midnight briefing here at Casa Blanca. Whenever we brief past happy hour it should be — all right. Sir, take us away. Q Thanks, Robert. Can you tell us a…
Grupo de trabajo también examinará asuntos que afectan el desarrollo económico de Puerto Rico El Grupo de Trabajo del Presidente sobre el Estatus de Puerto Rico realizó su primera reunión hoy, continuando la importante labor de examinar el asunto del…
Fact Sheet on The Vice President Biden’s Memo to The President on Progress Building a Clean Energy Economy BACKGROUND ON THE PRESIDENT’S MEETING ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY & JOB CREATION 10:45 AM As a follow up to his speech last week,…
As President Obama continues to lay the foundation for an international political agreement on climate change in Copenhagen, he is reaching out personally to his counterparts around the world. Yesterday, the President spoke with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh…
A PROCLAMATION For 12 seconds on December 17, 1903, a wooden aircraft took to the skies above Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, lifting two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, to their place in history. Their singular triumph triggered a revolution in transportation…
A PROCLAMATION In December 1944, a brave band of American soldiers, stationed in the Ardennes Forest region on the Western Front of Europe, who were surrounded, poorly supplied and surviving in brutally cold conditions, took the brunt of a furious…
