2:07 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Please be seated. On behalf of Michelle and myself, welcome to the White House. Thank you, Chaplain Carver, for that beautiful invocation. Of all the privileges that come with serving…
Archive: November 16, 2010
WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts: Mark C. Alexander, Member, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Mark Brzezinski, Member, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Lisa M.…
At the request of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner due to scheduling conflicts in organizing their caucuses, the President’s meeting with bipartisan leaders will now take place at the White House on Tuesday, November…
En una reunión hoy en la Oficina Oval, el Presidente y líderes del Grupo Hispano del Congreso (Congressional Hispanic Caucus o CHC), el senador federal Robert Menéndez de Nueva Jersey, la congresista federal Nydia Velázquez de Nueva York y el…
In an Oval Office meeting today, the President and leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez of New York, and U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez of Illinois – discussed…
Failure to pass the New START Treaty this year would endanger our national security. Without ratification of this Treaty, we will have no Americans on the ground to inspect Russia’s nuclear activities, no verification regime to track Russia’s strategic nuclear…
The Office of the First Lady announced today that Susan Sher, Chief of Staff to Mrs. Obama, will be returning to Chicago after the first of the year, after nearly two years of service. Ms. Sher started in the White…
PRESS BRIEFING BY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO NATO IVO DAALDER, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN DOUG LUTE, SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS LIZ SHERWOOD-RANDALL, AND DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS BEN RHODES ON THE UPCOMING…
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to guide Federal agencies in formulating and developing policies with implications for faith-based and other neighborhood organizations,…
