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In a letter to the House and Senate, specifically Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner, along with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, today the President urged “swift action on several critical priorities that will give our Nation’s small businesses added impetus to hire and grow”.
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Today, President Obama released an executive order establishing a National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and offshore drilling.
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I have to say, though, I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter. You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else. The American people could not have been impressed with that display, and I certainly wasn’t.
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Presidents Obama and Karzai met in the nation’s capital today to iron out what may have been disagreements created by the press.
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President Obama commencement speaker for graduating class at Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The White House released a statement today from the President Obama addressing the proposal outlined in the Senate today to fix our nation’s broken immigration system.
President Obama to speak at Race to the Top Commencement high school graduation ceremony.
Memorial Services were held today for the families of the 29 miners lost in the tragic Upper Big Branch Mine on April 3, 2010. Both, President Obama and Vice President Biden spoke to family members and community leaders attending the ceremony.
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Armenian Remembrance Day, in 1915, 1.5 million people slaughtered or marched to camps and left to die.
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Blagojevich may be taking these “reality” shows a bit too seriously.
