Category: May 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts: Julie Ann Petty – Chair, President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities Peter V. Berns – Member, President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities Jack Martin Brandt – Member, President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities Kenneth…

You can view the progress report on advancing toward a clean energy future HERE.

East Room 11:11 A.M. EDT MRS. OBAMA:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Good afternoon, everyone.  It’s a — afternoon or morning?  Good morning.  (Laughter.)  Well, hello, everyone, and welcome to a little museum that we like to call the White House.  (Laughter.) I want to welcome all of you — our election officials, all the board members,…

Private Residence La Jolla, California 1:47 P.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you so much.  Thank you.  Well, first of all, let me just say thank you to Irwin and Joan and the whole Jacobs family.  They have been great friends for, as Irwin noted, a very long time.  Although I am reminded of the story…

Fairmont San Jose San Jose, California 7:50 P.M. PDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody!  (Applause.)  Hello, California! AUDIENCE MEMBER:  We love you! THE PRESIDENT:  I love you back!  It is good to be back in San Jose.  (Applause.)  I think one of the times I came here I started singing the Dionne Warwick song — did…

Following productive bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Peres and National Security Advisor Yossi Cohen on May 7, National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice and the U.S. delegation participated in the U.S.-Israel Consultative Group meetings in Jerusalem on May 8. The intensive and highly constructive meetings covered a range of bilateral and regional security…

On Monday, June 30, President Obama will welcome back to the White House Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.  The visit will highlight our close relationship with Chile and our strong partnership with the Bachelet Administration on advancing peace and global security, social inclusion, and free trade.  The President looks forward to consulting with President Bachelet on…

TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: I am pleased to transmit to the Congress, pursuant to sections 123 b. and 123 d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2153(b), (d)) (the “Act”), the text of a proposed Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America…

National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice met with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority today in Ramallah.  On Israeli- Palestinian negotiations, Ambassador Rice underscored that while we have come to a pause in the parties’ talks, the United States believes the only way to achieve lasting peace is through direct negotiations that lead to two…

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts: Robert Stephen Beecroft – Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Department of State Stuart E. Jones – Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, Department of State Lisa Mensah – Under Secretary for Rural Development, Department…