When President Obama unveiled his innovation policy last year, he said, “In our increasingly interconnected and globally competitive world economy, unleashing innovation is an essential component of a comprehensive economic strategy…[T]he greatest job and value creators of the future will be activities, jobs, and even industries that don’t exist yet today." To help spur the […]
The Affordable Care Act includes a number of important provisions that will put you – not the insurance companies – in control of your health care. And as the New York Times points out today, the new law is already prompting an end to some of the worst insurance company practices. The Times notes: Americans […]
Click here to see the video. [UPDATE 5/2/10 9:30PM: Learn more from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ briefing aboard Air Force One on the return trip from the Gulf Coast.] The President spent the day touring the Gulf Coast area and getting a first-hand look at the ongoing response from the federal government to the BP […]
President Obama made his second appearance at the annual White House Press and Scholarship Dinner last night in Washington, D.C. He took the dais before the headliner Jay Leno, remarking, "I’m also glad to be speaking first. We’ve all seen what happens to the person in the time slot after Leno." But Leno was far […]
Ed. Note: Yesterday the President made a statement on the first quarter 2010 GDP numbers in the Rose Garden, joined by representatives and workers from U.S. manufacturers including A123 Systems, a Massachusetts based advanced battery manufacturer, that are expanding production and hiring as a result of Recovery Act investments in innovation and technology. Electrical Engineer James Fenton joined […]
As the President beats back lobbyists seeking to weaken Wall Street Reform, he talks about an even broader threat that would vastly expand the influence of massive industries and their lobbyists in Washington. A recent Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates for corporations, including foreign corporations, to spend endless money on political ads that would […]
Because our rules are so tough, they occasionally yield unintended consequences. We attempt to take a common-sense approach to those situations, as we did this week in authorizing the National Security Advisor, General James Jones, to give very brief remarks introducing President Clinton at an Atlantic Council event. The Atlantic Council is a non-profit 501(c)(3) […]
The Affordable Care Act has a number of important measures to promote more consumer choice and control when it comes to health insurance options. A big part of that will be a web portal that offers American consumers and small businesses the ability to find health coverage options in their states through a clear, easy-to-understand […]
In September, 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 created in January 2010. Today’s release also includes several visitor records created prior to September 16, 2009 that were requested by members of the […]
Two volunteers watch as First Lady Michelle Obama paints a butterfly on a wall mural at the Marie Reed Community Learning Center in Washington, DC, Yesterday the First Lady added some color to the walls of Marie Reed Community Learning Center during a Congressional Service Event, where the congressional spouses had painted murals on the […]
