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Archive: December 21, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts:   Margaret Murnane – Chairman, President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science Judith Kimble – Member, President’s Committee on the…

President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to Prague, Czech Republic to attend the funeral of former President Václav Havel, on December 23, 2011.   The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, will lead the…

Today, the President made separate calls to Speaker Boehner and Leader Reid.  In his call to Speaker Boehner, the President reiterated the need and his commitment to work with Congress to extend the payroll tax cut for the entire year,…

The United States continues to believe that the only way to bring about the change that the Syrian people deserve is for Bashar al-Assad to leave power.  The words of the Assad regime have no credibility when they continue to…

12:41 P.M. EST        MR. CARNEY:  Hello, everybody.  Good afternoon.  Thanks for coming to the White House. Before I get started, I would like to read to you something I am still looking for — here we go —…