Today, President Obama and Vice President Biden convened the first meeting of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force. Held in the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, meeting attendees included the heads of relevant executive…
Archive: February 1, 2016
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Idaho and ordered federal aid to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe winter storms during the period of December 16-27, 2015. …
NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: R. David Harden, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, vice Nancy E. Lindborg. WITHDRAWAL SENT TO THE SENATE: John Morton, of Massachusetts, to be Executive Vice…
During his 2016 State of the Union Address, President Obama called on Vice President Biden to lead a new, national “Moonshot” initiative to eliminate cancer as we know it. Today, the White House is announcing a new $1 billion initiative…
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Social Security Amendments of 1977 (Public Law 95-216, 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1)), I transmit herewith a social security totalization agreement with Hungary,…
PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY JOSH EARNEST James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:52 P.M. EST MR. EARNEST: Good Monday afternoon, everybody. Happy Caucus Day. Nice to see you all. I see you all are avoiding the snows…
EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – ESTABLISHING A FEDERAL EARTHQUAKE RISK MANAGEMENT STANDARD By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Earthquake…
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Pursuant to my constitutional authority and as contemplated by section 446 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act as amended in 1989, I am transmitting the District of Columbia’s fiscal…
