Category: August 2011

“The United States is committed to working with our allies, and to strengthening our own internal capabilities, in order to ensure that the United States and the international community are proactively engaged in a strategic effort to prevent mass atrocities and genocide. In the event that prevention fails, the United States will work both multilaterally…

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, August 11, the President will travel to Holland, Michigan, to tour the Johnson Controls Inc. advanced battery facility.  While at Johnson Controls, the President will highlight the key role innovative technologies will play in helping automakers achieve the historic fuel economy standards, establishing U.S. leadership in advanced vehicle manufacturing, spurring economic…

The Vice President will depart for China, Mongolia, and Japan on August 16, 2011.  He will visit China at the invitation of Vice President Xi Jinping – the first of the planned reciprocal visits between the Vice Presidents announced during President Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington earlier this year.  While in China, the Vice…

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, August 9, the President will travel to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia, to announce first of their kind fuel efficiency standards for work trucks, buses, and other heavy duty vehicles. The new standards will provide American businesses, who operate and own these commercial vehicles, tens of billions of dollars in…

The President today made additional disaster assistance available to the State of Arizona by authorizing an increase in the level of Federal funding for Public Assistance projects undertaken in theSovereign Tribal Nation of the Havasupai Tribe as a result of severe storms and flooding during the period of October 3-6, 2010. Under the President’s major…

I’m pleased that leaders in Congress are working together to break the impasse involving the FAA so that tens of thousands of construction workers and others can go back to work. We can’t afford to let politics in Washington hamper our recovery, so this is an important step forward.

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, obviously, this has been an eventful last few days.  As I have said yesterday, we have now averted what could have been a disastrous blow to the economy.  And we have identified on the front end over a trillion dollars in spending reductions that can be done sensibly and safely without affecting…

THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, Chicago!  (Applause.)  Oh, it is good to be with some good friends!  (Applause.)  This is a warm welcome right here.  (Applause.) Let me first of all say thank you to the extraordinary, extraordinary talent that’s on stage.  First of all, one of the greatest jazz musicians of our time, Herbie Hancock.  (Applause.) …

Below is a link to the President’s plan for how the Federal Government will support and help empower American communities and their local partners to prevent violent extremism. You can read the plan “Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States” here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/empowering_local_partners.pdf

Russian President Medvedev called President Obama to wish him a happy birthday and to discuss Russia’s WTO accession negotiations.  The Presidents noted the significant progress that had been made since they spoke last a few weeks ago.  President Obama stressed the need for Russia to work with other WTO members to close out the last…