First Lady Michelle Obama, Sasha, Malia read to children (AP)
Malia with Bo at childrens hospital (AP)
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the First Lady
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For [...]
WASHINGTON-- President Obama, who with his family departs this week for their annual vacation to his native Hawaii, was asked about his body surfing--and why African Americans should get the H1N1flu shot among other issues--during an interview with April Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the First Lady
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For Immediate Release December 22, 2009
REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY
AND SASHA AND MALIA OBAMA
AFTER A VISIT
Children's National Medical Center
Washington, D.C.
3:36 P.M. EST
[...]
WASHINGTON--There are now 198 detainees left at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, the White House told me. On Sunday, the Justice Department announced 12 suspected terrorists were sent to Yemen, Afghanistan and the Somaliland region.
On Tuesday--today--the State of Illinois is holding a public hearing on President Obama's order for [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 21, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2009
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and meet with senior advisors in the Oval [...]
Computer records, newly obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, offer the latest evidence that former Democrat governor Blagojevich was working out a plan to keep White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's congressional seat warm for him if he [Emanuel] decided to return to fill it [...]
Updated Monday afternoon
WASHINGTON--The White House is throwing a series of holiday parties. I attended one of the parties for the press. Here's a picture tour of some of the food offerings. It turns out these photos have a place in telling the historic story of Obama entertaining in the' [...]
WASHINGTON--"You know that I am from Chicago,'' President Barack Obama said Sunday at the White House, "so let me first say that with the place where I live covered with snow I'm finally starting to feel like home.''
Washington had a historic snowfall over the weekend. I measured 18.5 inches' [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 20, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2009
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office and meet with members [...]
WASHINGTON--Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent the Obama White House on Saturday a new name for consideration for nomination to be the U.S. Marshall for the Northern District of Illinois-- Darryl McPherson, a Deputy U.S. Marshall senior inspector.
Durbin in August suggested Kenton Terrell, who withdrew his name [...]
Here is the White House transcript on the unusual, dramatic, and somewhat comedic circumstances of how President Obama's meeting came about with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Jacob Zuma and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao to cut a climate change [...]
UPDATED:
Saturday, December 19, 2009
No Pool Call Time (any updates will be sent via email)
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 2009
WEEKEND GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2009
The President has no scheduled public events this weekend.
by Collin Hitt
A Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House have steered stimulus dollars to Democratic districts far more often than they have to Republican districts. This is the finding of an absolutely knockout paper released today by the Mercatus Center.
Authors Jerry Brito and Veronique de Rugy note [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release December 18, 2009
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT THE MORNING PLENARY SESSION
OF THE UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE
Bella Center
Copenhagen, Denmark
12:32 P.M. CET
THE [...]
CORRECTION: The Chinese Premier's name is Wen Jiabao.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 17, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009
In the morning, the President will arrive in Copenhagen, Denmark. The arrival at Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup will be covered [...]
by Mark Silva
As America's best writer once said of premature reports of his own death, the White House suggests that writing off health-care reform now would be "a tragic outcome.''
"It would be a tragic, tragic outcome,'' David Axelrod, the president's senior political adviser, said in an appearance [...]
We've been trying to tell those within the DC Beltway about The Chicago Way for a couple of years, but few would listen. There's another Congressman about to become a believer -- U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas. Burgess is expected to file a resolution calling for the White House' [...]
WASHINGTON--The White House sent members of the Illinois congressional delegation a memo covering a series of questions they generated in the wake of President Obama's order for the federal government to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for a prison to house detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military [...]
Transcript courtesy of Federal News Service
WHITE HOUSE BACKGROUND BRIEFING WITH SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS
SUBJECT: DECISION TO ACQUIRE THOMSON CORRECTIONAL CENTER IN ILLINOIS TO HOUSE FEDERAL INMATES AND A LIMITED NUMBER OF DETAINEES FROM GUANTANAMO BAY
1:00 P.M. EST, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009
OPERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you [...]
President Obama and First Lady Michelle watch as Ethan and Esther Moran, along with their mother Alison Buckholtz light a menorah on the sixth night of Hanukkah. The menorah--which survived the Nazi destruction-- is on loan from the Jewish Museum in Prague. [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 16, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2009
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing, meet with members of the National Economic Council, [...]
Illinois' own Rep. Luis Gutierrez has brought immigration reform back to life in the U.S. House. Amid historic unemployment rates in their districts and a contentious health care battle on Capitol Hill, congressional Democrats -- along with the White House -- have been reluctant to move the immigrant rights agenda forward. But at' [...]
WASHINGTON--When they were members of Congress, President Obama and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel strongly backed measures to legalize the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and other nations. On Tuesday, the Obama administration--siding with the drug industry--thwarted a bid by a bipartisan group of Senators to [...]
With every passing day, it's looking more and more like Guantanamo detainees will be relocated to Northwest Illinois. Yesterday, senior White House officials provided some concrete details about their plan for moving a limited number of terror suspects to Thomson Correctional Center, including the disclosure that the administration plans to hold military tribunals within the' [...]
by Mark Silva
How about those New York City bankers who couldn't make it to the White House this week, the transportation secretary was asked. How was it that he managed to make it to New York for a TV show?
"Amtrak,'' he explained. "Amtrak runs in the fog.''
Ray LaHood,' [...]
Thomson To House Military Trials
The White House has confirmed that it plans to hold military trials at
the Thomson Correctional Center, once numerous Guantanamo Bay detainees
(between 35 and 90 individuals) have been transferred to the Illinois
facility. The prison might also house a small number of prisoners whom
the [...]
