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Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy: Helping Communities Prepare for the Impacts of a Changing Climate

Ed. note: This is cross-posted from hud.gov. See the original post here. From New Orleans to Cedar Rapids to Tuscaloosa to Minot – I have walked the streets and looked in the eyes of families whose lives have come crashing down around them under nature’s wrath. But nothing prepared me to come back home to New […]

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American Businesses Support a Path to Citizenship, a Shot at the American Dream

Commonsense comprehensive immigration reform isn’t just something that makes sense to 68 members of the United States Senate or a majority of the American people – it also makes sense to American business.  In fact, there is a rich history of employers helping their employees achieve the American dream of citizenship.  And our legal immigration […]

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New Permanent Representative of Kiribati Presents Credentials

  (Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service) The new Permanent Representative of Kiribati to the United Nations, Makurita Baaro, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today. From 2011 until her latest appointment, Ms. Baaro was Relations Manager in the Australian-funded Kiribati Education Improvement Programme supporting the Ministry of Education. She […]

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President Obama Welcomes 1973 Super Bowl Champion Miami Dolphins to the White House

President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a ceremony honoring the 1972 Super Bowl Champion Miami Dolphins in the East Room of the White House, Aug. 20, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) When the Miami Dolphins took to the field at the Los Angeles Coliseum on January 14, 1973, history was on the […]

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President Obama: ‘A Personal Mission’

Today, President Obama sent the message below to the White House email list to explain why he’ll be on the road this week talking about his plan to make college more affordable. If you didn’t get the email, be sure to sign up.  Hello, everybody — Michelle and I know exactly how tough it can be […]

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The Economic Benefits of Fixing Our Broken Immigration System: Travel and Tourism

America has always been a nation of immigrants, and throughout the nation’s history, immigrants and visitors from around the globe have kept our workforce vibrant, our businesses on the cutting edge, and helped to build the greatest economic engine in the world. However, America’s immigration system is broken and has not kept pace with changing […]

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Activities of Secretary-General in State of Palestine, 15 August

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Ramallah, in the State of Palestine, on the afternoon of Thursday, 15 August, on a flight from Aqaba in Jordan. He first met with Rami Hamdallah, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. Next the Secretary-General helped launch the United Nations Development Assistance Framework for the State of […]

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Activities of Secretary-General in Jordan, 15 August

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Amman in the early hours of Thursday, 15 August, on a flight from Islamabad. That morning he met with Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh at the Foreign Ministry. Next the Secretary-General and the Foreign Minister flew by helicopter to Aqaba for a meeting with King Abdullah II Bin Al […]

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Weekly Address: Working to Implement the Affordable Care Act

President Obama says we are on the way to fully implementing the Affordable Care Act and helping millions of Americans.   Transcript | Download mp4 | Download mp3 Fonte: White House

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West Wing Week: 08/16/13 or “Summer Mailbag: A Break from Tradition”

Welcome to the West Wing Week.  This week, we broke from tradition a bit and took to our social media networks to ask our followers about what they would like to know about everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Fonte: White House

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