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Archive: October 3, 2013

M. Luis Construction Company, Rockville, Maryland 10:49 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody!  (Applause.)  Good to see all of you.  Please, please have a seat.  Well, hello, Rockville!  Let me start by recognizing three public servants who fight hard every…

President Obama called President Yudhoyono of Indonesia tonight. The President expressed his appreciation for President Yudhoyono’s strong leadership of the APEC Summit. He expressed his regret that the ongoing government shutdown in the United States will prevent him from attending…

President Obama called the Sultan of Brunei tonight. The President expressed his appreciation for the Sultan’s strong leadership of the ASEAN and EAS Summits. He expressed his regret that the ongoing government shutdown in the United States will prevent him…

Due to the government shut-down, President Obama’s travel to Indonesia and Brunei has been cancelled. The President made this decision based on the difficulty in moving forward with foreign travel in the face of a shutdown, and his determination to…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:09 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY:  Thanks for being here.  I hope you all were able to hear the President’s remarks earlier today if you didn’t actually travel to Rockville for the event.  Before I…

FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 2013 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Fires take more American lives than all other natural disasters combined. They inflict devastating tolls on families and…