Elena kicked off her week-long hearing today with about 12 minutes of opening remarks — take a look and read some excerpts as-prepared below: var params = { allowscriptaccess: “always”, allowfullscreen: “true” }; swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/azM8h4ua244&hl=en&fs=1&showinfo=0”, “flashcontent”, “480”, “295”, “8”, null, {}, params); Viewing this video requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or higher. Download the free player. […]
Lawrence Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, spoke today on technology policy, job creation, and economic growth – in particular the President’s move to dramatically increase the amount of federal and commercial spectrum available for smartphones and wireless Internet devices. As our fact sheet explained, "In recent years, the amount of information flowing over […]
This morning the President issued the following statement on the passing of Senator Robert Byrd: I was saddened to hear this morning that the people of West Virginia have lost a true champion, the United States Senate has lost a venerable institution, and America has lost a voice of principle and reason with the passing […]
Click here to see the video. If you’re looking for more information on the G-20 Summit in Toronto, we’ve got plenty to keep you busy, including the Declaration that lays out the enormously broad spectrum of issues that were addressed: The G-20 Toronto Summit Declaration The G-20 Summit in Toronto: U.S. Financial Reform and the […]
On Tuesday, President Obama will meet with a bipartisan group of Senators to discuss the need for comprehensive energy and climate legislation this year. Following that meeting, Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, will host a live chat on WhiteHouse.gov to take your questions on energy and climate change […]
The Affordable Care Act created a number of important new benefits for seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries. On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed regulation that takes us a step closer to making those promised benefits a reality. Under the provisions of this proposed rule, Medicare would provide for […]
Cross-posted from the OMB blog. As I’ve written before, one source of ineffective and inefficient government is the technology gap between the public and private sectors. While a productivity boom has transformed private sector performance over the past two decades, the federal government has almost entirely missed this transformation and now lags far behind on […]
Ed. Note: This blog post is cross-posted from the Stories of Service blog on Serve.gov Today kicks off the National Conference on Volunteering and Service – more than 5,000 (!) service leaders are pouring into New York City to create greater impact and effectiveness in meeting social needs through service and volunteering. Good news […]
Below find all of the resources, and several photos from the second day of the G8 Summit and the G20 in Canada. Remarks by President Obama and President Hu Jintao of the People’s Republic of China Before Bilateral Meeting Remarks by President Obama and President Lee Myung-Bak of the Republic of Korea After Bilateral Meeting Remarks by […]
Early this morning the President signed H.R. 3962, which prevents a 21-percent pay cut for doctors participating in Medicare. Had Congress failed to act, some physicians would have been forced to stop taking Medicare patients. That’s not an outcome that the President can accept. The pay-cut fix is retroactive to June 1, and it doesn’t […]
