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Thursday, Sept. 10 Remarks by President Obama after Cabinet meeting THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. We just had an excellent and informative Cabinet meeting. Secretaries Clinton and Gates provided an overview of our current national security posture. Secretary Geithner discussed some of the — both promise and peril of our current economic situation. But we spent…
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Wednesday, Sept. 9 Remarks by President Obama at service for Walter Cronkite THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much. To Chip, Kathy, and Nancy, who graciously shared your father with a nation that loved him; to Walter’s friends, colleagues, protégés, and all who considered him a hero; to the men of the Intrepid; to…
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THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing today? (Applause.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.) I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten…
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Tuesday, Sept. 8 Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Let me — since I neglected to do this Friday when we met in my office, and then neglected to do it yesterday on the plane, let me give you a dwindling week ahead, since if I forget it one more…
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Monday, Sept. 7 Remarks by President Obama at AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Cincinnati! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you, Ohio! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you, labor! (Applause.) All-righty. It is good to be back in Cincinnati. (Applause.) It’s good to be back in Ohio. (Applause.) It’s good to be back among great friends,…
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Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds delivered an address today at George Mason University outlining his vision for the future of Virginia and delineating key policy differences between himself and Republican candidate Bob McDonnell.
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Thursday, Aug. 20 – Transcript of radio interview of President Obama with Michael Smerconish – Vice President Biden announces availability of nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals and doctors use electronic health records
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The good news: The average Virginian is making $589 more a month today compared to 2000. The bad news: That same average Virginian is paying out $500 more a month for health insurance that doesn’t cover as much as the insurance that you could get in 2000.
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Monday, Aug. 17 – Remarks by President Obama at VFW convention, Phoenix, Ariz. – Remarks by President Obama at Grand Junction, Colo., health-care town hall – Press gaggle by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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Sorry, Mr. President, I don’t wish to die. I know that my death and those of other seniors will help you reform our nation’s health-care system without increasing its cost. But can’t you find a better way? I don’t live in Europe, so I prefer that society doesn’t toss me aside just because it thinks…
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