A quick look at the week of October 25, 2010: It’s the Great Pumpkin: Carved pumpkins depicting President Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and the White House sit on a stone wall next door to where the President was attending a dinner reception in Providence, Rhode Island, Oct. 25, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete […]
In September 2009, the President announced that – for the first time in history – the White House would routinely release visitor records. Today, the White House releases visitor records that were generated in July 2010. Today’s release also includes several visitor records generated prior to September 16, 2009 that were requested by members of the public […]
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Walk step by step with the President as he visits American Cord and Webbing, a thriving small business in Woodsocket, Rhode Island, calls into radio shows across the country, joins the Vice President in the East Room to mark Domestic Violence Awareness […]
Most people who have watched a daily press briefing from the White House Press Secretary have probably thought at one time or another “I’d like to ask the White House a question!” Well, here’s your chance! Today we launched a new type of online engagement called “First Question” that uses Twitter to collect your questions […]
Promoting college success and completion is critical to the future of our economy. Recent studies have shown that we are lagging behind nations such as Korea, Canada and Japan in college completion rates – and college costs are part of the reason why. President Obama believes educational success is key to our future economic success. […]
Cross posted from the Department of Transportation’s blog. Today, the Obama Administration and the Department of Transportation are awarding $2.4 billion for planning and construction of intercity passenger rail service. With these 54 projects in 23 states, we’re moving full-speed ahead toward a nationwide high-speed rail system. President Obama signed the Recovery Act to build […]
Just one month after the President signed the Small Business Jobs Act, SBA has supported nearly $3 billion in loans to more than 5,000 small businesses across the country. That’s more than 5,000 small business owners who’ve felt first-hand, within one month, the impact this new law is having on our economy: from Peabody Engineering, […]
A few weeks ago, President Obama asked me to get to work starting the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He was clear about his goal: Level the playing field for American families and fix the broken consumer credit market—and do it as quickly and effectively as possible. Today, I’m in California to continue conversations with […]
UPDATE: Watch the entire interview. Check out a couple shots from the taping courtesy of the Photo Office: President Barack Obama tapes an interview for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama tapes an interview for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart at […]
Click here to see the video. This afternoon, we marked Domestic Violence Awareness Month with the President and Vice President by highlighting the Obama Administration’s unprecedented coordination and cooperation across the entire government to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence and enable survivors to break the cycle of abuse. For almost 30 years, the […]
