East Room 4:00 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Please have a seat. Welcome to the White House, and congratulations on winning your seventh straight Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. Does this ever get old? (Applause.) I do have to warn you that…
Archive: May 3, 2010
12:11 P.M. EDT MRS. OBAMA: Thank you all. Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Well, this has been a thrill for me. And let me do our winners a favor. Put those trophies down. (Laughter.) Put them…
WASHINGTON—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Interior (DOI) Ken Salazar, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson and Department of Energy Secretary Stephen Chu today met with BP CEO Tony Hayward and BP American Chairman…
World Press Freedom Day is observed every year on May 3 to remind us of the critical importance of this core freedom. It is a day in which we celebrate the invaluable role played by the media in challenging abuses…
The President and Admiral Thad Allen spoke with local officials including mayors, county supervisors, parish presidents and more from the five states in the Gulf Region. The President voiced his commitment to engaging local governments as critical partners in the…
President Obama today made calls to Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen and Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear. The President expressed his deepest condolences for the tragic loss of life and suffering caused by flooding in their states. He also pledged that the…
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency, unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the…
New York, NY To the participants of the NPT Review Conference, Forty years after the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force, we have come together to answer a simple question with consequences for us all: as individual nations and as…
The President today declared an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local response efforts in the area affected by a water main break beginning on May 1, 2010, and continuing. The…
NOTICE – – – – – – – CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE ACTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA On May 11, 2004, pursuant to his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C.…
