Category: 2012

On Thursday, December 20, 2012, the President signed into law: H.R. 2467, the “Bridgeport Indian Colony Land Trust, Health, and Economic Development Act of 2012,” which transfers approximately 39 acres of Federal land in Mono County, California, currently managed by the Bureau of Land Management, into trust status for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian…

The President’s main priority is to ensure that taxes don’t go up on 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses in just a few short days. The President will work with Congress to get this done and we are hopeful that we will be able to find a bipartisan solution quickly that…

Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Room 208 1:17 P.M. EST THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Let me start by thanking — I look around this table, and I’ve worked with — excluding the Cabinet and administration officials, I’ve worked some of you for a long, long time.  All the police organizations represented here have been my friends and…

The American people have been clear that they will not accept an economic approach that places too big of a burden on the middle class, seniors, students and the most vulnerable Americans while asking too little of the wealthiest Americans.  The Congressional Republican “Plan B” legislation continues large tax cuts for the very wealthiest individuals…

I congratulate President-elect Park Geun-hye on her success in the election held on Wednesday. I look forward to working closely with the Park Administration to further enhance our extensive cooperation with the Republic of Korea on a wide range of important bilateral, regional and global issues. The U.S.-ROK alliance serves as a linchpin of peace…

The President today declared a major disaster exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and ordered Federal aid to supplement commonwealth and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Sandy during the period of October 27 to November 8, 2012. Federal funding is available to commonwealth and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit…

Below is a link to the President’s plan for how the Federal Government will responsibly share and safeguard information that enhances national security and protects the safety of the American people. You can read the plan “National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding” here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2012sharingstrategy_1.pdf  National security depends on our ability to share the right…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:02 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everybody.  It’s now been five days since the heartbreaking tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut; three days since we gathered as a nation to pray for the victims. And today, a few more of the 20 small children and six educators who were taken…

State Department Washington D.C. 6:57 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  (Applause.)   Well, good evening, everyone.  It is wonderful to see all of you. I want to publicly thank Deputy Secretary Bill Burns.  For those of you who don’t know, Bill is only the second career diplomat in American history to rise to the level…