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President Obama Nominates Anthony Foxx as Secretary of Transportation
Posted by on April 29, 2013 at 4:15 PM EDTPresident Obama announces Anthony Foxx as his nominee for the next Secretary of Transportation.
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Weekly Address: Time to Replace the Sequester with a Balanced Approach to Deficit Reduction
Posted by on April 27, 2013 at 5:45 AM EDTPresident Obama says that because Republicans in Congress allowed a series of harmful, automatic budget cuts—called the sequester—to take effect, important programs like Head Start are now forced to reduce their services. After travelers were stuck for hours in airports and on planes this past week, members of Congress passed a temporary band-aid measure to stop the cuts that impact airlines — but they must do more to stop cuts to vital services for the American people. That’s why it’s time for a balanced approach to deficit reduction that makes smarter cuts and reforms in the tax code while creating jobs and strengthening the middle class.
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Weekly Wrap Up: "What You Do Matters"
Posted by on April 26, 2013 at 5:50 PM EDTHere's quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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Advance Estimate of GDP for the First Quarter of 2013
Posted by on April 26, 2013 at 9:30 AM EDTOver the last fifteen quarters, the economy has expanded by 8.3 percent overall, and the private components of GDP have grown by 12.2 percent. Real GDP is now 3.2 percent larger than it was at the previous business cycle peak in 2007:Q4.
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Celebrate National Park Week!
Posted by on April 22, 2013 at 6:34 PM EDTNational Park Week celebrates and gives back to our country’s great natural and cultural landscapes.
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Weekly Wrap Up: “We Will Finish the Race”
Posted by on April 19, 2013 at 6:00 PM EDTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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States Step Up to Help Veterans and Spouses Get Back to Work
Posted by on April 17, 2013 at 3:14 PM EDTSixty percent of veterans who responded to a 2012 survey said they had trouble translating their military skills into civilian job experience, creating a significant barrier to employment. Find out what states are doing to help ease the transition to civilian life.
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Weekly Wrap Up: "All of Them Deserve a Vote"
Posted by on April 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM EDTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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President Obama Sends Congress his Fiscal Year 2014 Budget
Posted by on April 10, 2013 at 11:31 AM EDTThis year's Budget presents the President's plan to address these important questions: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills needed to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?
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President Obama Nominates Three for the National Labor Relations Board
Posted by on April 10, 2013 at 10:15 AM EDTPresident Obama nominates three extremely qualified members to the National Labor Relations Board, and calls on the Senate to move swiftly to confirm all five of his nominees – both Republicans and Democrats – so that the NLRB can continue to perform its important functions on behalf of American workers and businesses.
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