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Monday, Sept. 14 Remarks by President Obama on financial rescue, reform THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. It is wonderful to be back in New York after having just been here last week. It is a beautiful day and we have some extraordinary guests here in the Hall today. I just want to mention a…
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U.S. Sen. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner today applauded President Obama’s nomination of Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara Keenan to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Recommended by Sens. Webb and Warner on June 2, 2009, Keenan would be the first female judge from Virginia to…
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Kevin Blackburn Photography were awarded a contract to provide services to Landmark Aviation at their newly renovated Washington Dulles (IAD) Terminal. The Waynesboro-based studio will be photographing the new architectural features and client areas of the new terminal. It will also be covering the open house event for the evening that is being hosted by…
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today announced more than $11 million in grants through the Homelessness and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP), authorized through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The HPRP program is designed to provide assistance and support to prevent homelessness or to quickly re-house and stabilize those who are currently homelessness.
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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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The Democratic National Committee today released a new television ad set to run on national and District of Columbia cable stations, and in 10 Republican congressional districts, blasting the Republican Party for voting earlier this year to abolish Medicare and for its decades long hostility towards the health-care program for our nation’s seniors.
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As students return to college and community college this fall, many of them and their families have questions about the new American Opportunity Tax Credit and how they can take advantage of this important new tax benefit. The American Opportunity Tax Credit was the first piece of legislation I wrote when I arrived in Congress…
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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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Thursday, Sept. 3 – Remarks by Vice President Biden on the 200 days of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Thank you. (Applause.) It’s a pleasure to be back. And I told Strobe in the anteroom that, Mr. Secretary, the many, many times that I’ve been here, almost always the subject has been foreign policy….
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Dear EarthTalk: Has China been making any progress reducing its output of global warming gases, and/or in tackling other environmental problems? –Bill W., Saugus, Mass. Decades of rapid-fire development and lack of government oversight has meant that China now faces some serious environmental challenges. According to research by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China surpassed…
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