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 […]
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 […]
Click here to see the photo gallery. [View Full Size] In a much-anticipated United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the President arrived after nearly two weeks of work with the firm intention of seizing the opportunity to get something solid done. And as he explained in remarks at the end of the day, defying […]
There was a time that the Situation Room was known not as Wolf Blitzer’s evening newscast, but a nerve-center of information for the President of the United States. Created by the Kennedy Administration in 1961, the "Sit Room" serves as a conference facility, a processing center for secure communications, a hub of intelligence gathering, and […]
Ed. Note: See previous installments from Interior Secretary Salazar, EPA Administrator Jackson and Assistant Secretary of Energy Sandalow, Secretary of Commerce Locke, Secretary of Energy Chu, and Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack. With the President’s arrival, a quick look back at what’s been going on. Secretary of State Clinton arrived in Copenhagen late, late Wednesday night and […]
Back in September when I submitted an idea for the SAVE Award program, I never thought that I would be selected as one of four finalists. I honestly didn’t expect it to be forwarded for someone to actually read. Imagine my surprise when I received a phone call in early December telling me I was […]
Starting at 2:00 PM EST today, the subcommittee on tax reform for the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) will hold its next public meeting. Wach the meeting live at www.whitehouse.gov/live. The speakers today include: IRS Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (read the panel’s public response to PERAB’s Request for Public Comment on Tax Reform ) Eric […]
Nearly every day this month, streams of visitors pass through the White House doors to get a firsthand glimpse of the holiday decorations dressing the Executive Residence. By the end of the holiday season, some 100,000 guests will have visited the White house to see the 27 trees, 61 wreaths, and about 2,700 yards of […]
The U.S. Department of Education announced this week that the following students are winners of its “I Am What I Learn” video contest: Rene Harris, Alex Hughes and Jordan Lederman. Watch the web chat between Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the winners below: var params = { allowscriptaccess: “always”, allowfullscreen: “true”, wmode:”transparent”}; swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/XViULGEA4Tc&hl=en&fs=1&showinfo=0&showsearch=0”, “flashcontent-2825_”, […]
