In his press briefing today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced another step to make sure our health care system works for the benefit of American families, not for the benefit of health insurance companies: [T]oday the President announced the administration’s strong support for repealing the antitrust exemption currently enjoyed by health insurers. At its core, […]
Yesterday, President Obama and The First Lady hosted the National Governors Association in the State Dining Room at the White House. We thought we’d pass along some photos and excerpts from their remarks: Click here to see the photo gallery. President Obama: One of the things that I’ve always said about governors that Washington could […]
On February 6, the White House Open Government Initiative launched a government wide public participation opportunity unprecedented in the history of our democracy. As part of the Open Government Directive issued in early December, every major agency published an open government website. These pages went live in early February complete with the latest news and […]
Hi, I am Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator. I am honored to have been appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve in this new position created by Congress in the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008. Given the unique nature of this […]
On Thursday the much-anticipated bipartisan meeting on health reform will be held at the Blair House across the way from the White House. With Congress having spent most of a year discussing and debating reform, the President put forward a proposal to work off of during the meeting to help lay out a path forward. The […]
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to travel to Cincinnati, Ohio for the one year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. While in Cincinnati, I visited the Forest Square development, which is a low-income housing development under construction using $1 million in Recovery Act Tax Credit Assistance (TCAP) funds. When complete, this […]
The President believes strongly that Thursday’s bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform will be most productive if both sides come to the table with a unified plan to start discussion – and if the public has the opportunity to inspect those proposals up close before the meeting happens. That’s why yesterday the White House posted […]
Last week, tragedy befell public servants in Austin, Texas. Earlier today, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner met with IRS employees in Austin to express his sympathies and support, and he read this note from the President: To the men and women of the Internal Revenue Service at Austin: I asked Secretary Geithner to carry this message […]
Today is a good day for American consumers, as the credit card reform bill the President signed last year kicks in. We’re marking the occasion by holding a live online video chat through CreditCards.com with Austan Goolsbee of the Council of Economic Advisers at 2:00 this afternoon. Join the chat. [UPDATE: This event has now concluded.] […]
At 3:00 PM EST today the First Lady will give a group of Washington, DC music students a special preview of the 2010 Governors’ Ball performance. Grammy Award Winning artist, Harry Connick Jr. will spend some time talking to students and will close out the event with a song, joined by a few residents from the New […]
