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Archive: October 1, 2010

    11:22 A.M. EDT       THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the least suspenseful announcement of all time.  (Laughter.)  As almost all of you have reported — (laughter) — my chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has informed…

September 30, 2010 7:40 P.M. EDT       THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  Thank you, everybody.  It is great to see all of you.  I am not going to give a long speech because I’m going to have a chance to…

September 30, 2010 9:12 P.M. EDT   THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, DC!  (Applause.)  Thank you!  Thank you!  (Applause.)  Thank you, DC!  Thank you so much.  (Applause.)  I’m fired up!  (Applause.)  Thank you.    Let me, first of all, thank one of…

Se cumple con ambiciosos objetivos de gasto; el dinero ahorrado financia 3,000 proyectos adicionales que generan empleo Washington, DC – Ayer, como parte de la sesión informativa diaria sobre la economía, el Vicepresidente Joe Biden le entregó al Presidente un…

National Security Advisor General Jim Jones will be traveling to Bremen, Germany, as head of the Presidential delegation to attend the 20th Anniversary of German Unity on October 3, 2010. While in Germany, General Jones will meet his counterpart, Chancellery…

The United States welcomes the adoption today by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a resolution addressing the elimination of discrimination against women.  Most significantly, this resolution establishes a working group of five independent experts from different regions of…

This afternoon, President Obama  spoke with President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala to express his deep regret regarding the study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service in the 1940s on sexually transmitted disease inoculation and to extend an apology to…

“Estoy profundamente agradecido con el almirante Thad Allen por sus años de servicio dedicado a Estados Unidos, y en particular, por su sobresaliente liderazgo en los esfuerzos de respuesta al derrame de petróleo por BP. En un momento en que…

President Obama called President Medvedev today to acknowledge the substantial progress that Russia and the United States have made in completing negotiations on a series of bilateral issues, which needed resolution before Russia joins the World Trade Organization (WTO). During…

“I am profoundly grateful to Admiral Thad Allen for his years of dedicated service to America, and particularly his outstanding leadership of the BP Oil Spill response effort.  At a time when he could have enjoyed a well-deserved retirement from…