Click here to see the video. The President made clear early on that part of the way he intended to change the way Washington does business is by looking in every nook and cranny of government both for waste and abuse, and for ideas on how to root it out. Speaking in the Diplomatic room today, […]
Click here to see the video. Last week, I had the opportunity to join Vice President Biden and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue in Dawsonville, Georgia for the announcement of the first $183 million in Recovery Act funding for projects to bring broadband service to communities where it is lacking. These projects can help companies like Impulse […]
The popular blogging community focused on women, BlogHer, has been collecting questions over the weekend from their readers for HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and today the Secretary answers some of those questions live. Last week HHS released a new report documenting in detail the extensive benefits reform will hold for families. Watch through WhiteHouse.gov/live. Watch and […]
To emerge from the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, we are depending on entrepreneurs and start-ups — young and small businesses — to do what they have historically done for the United States: fuel economic growth by creating a disproportionate share of the new jobs we need. As President Obama’s Chief Technology […]
Congress has been working hard for months to shape health insurance reform legislation that will bring down costs, expand coverage, increase accountability for insurers, and attack our mounting deficit. We got good news today on all those fronts, as fresh statements of support from the Small Business Majority, the American Cancer Society, and the American Diabetes Association […]
Before we get into the national round-up, we wanted to highlight one particularly action-packed story out of Minnesota. The headline from the Star-Tribune is ‘Energy squads’ find and stop waste": As the biggest storm of the season so far descends on the Twin Cities, some lucky homeowners are getting expert help battening down the hatches and […]
Holiday season at the White House began with a very simple idea: to include as many people, in as many places, in as many ways as possible. In this spirit, we posted a video tour of this year’s decorations and the making of the gingerbread White House; now see the holidays through the lens of […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Informal High-Level Event convened by the Prime Minister of Denmark: It is a great pleasure and honour to welcome you to this very important summit level Conference on Climate Change. Thank you for taking time, despite your very busy State affairs. This means you are […]
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The President looks back to the bipartisan Patient’s Bill of Rights, a bill that was defeated in Congress at the hands of special interests and their supporters, and notes that health insurance reform covers the same ground and much more in terms of giving the consumers the upper hand over their insurance companies. He calls […]
