Friday, January 20, 2017
Never Forget The Obama Years
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2012
ASEAN Summit 2012 – Phnom Penh, Cambodia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/11/20/president-obama-meets-asian-leaders-cambodia
Oct 31, 2013 President Obama – SelectUSA Investment Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/20/remarks-president-2016-selectusa-investment-summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/10/31/president-obama-announce-first-ever-federal-effort-attract-job-creating-
President Obama established a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience to advise the Administration on how the Federal Government can respond to the needs of communities nationwide that are dealing with the impacts of climate change. The Task Force members include state, local and tribal leaders from across the country who will use their first-hand experiences in building climate preparedness and resilience in their communities to inform their recommendations to the Administration. The President signed an Executive Order that directs Federal agencies to take a series of steps to make it easier for American communities to strengthen their resilience to extreme weather and prepare for other impacts of climate change.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/11/01/executive-order-preparing-united-states-impacts-climate-change
Entrepreneur Pathways is an online resource center that gives immigrant entrepreneurs an intuitive way to navigate opportunities to start and grow a business in the United States. This new resource was announced during a visit to MIT's entrepreneurship center by Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Federal agency responsible for administering visa programs. Immigrant entrepreneurs have always made extraordinary contributions to our Nation's economic growth and competitiveness, creating jobs and new businesses all across the country. Immigrants started 25 percent of the highest-growth companies in America, including iconic success stories like Intel, Google, Yahoo, and eBay, which together employ an estimated 220,000 people within the United States. President Obama is committed to attracting the world's best and brightest entrepreneurs to start the next great companies here in the United States, and Entrepreneur Pathways is an important and concrete next step to facilitating that. For example, imagine that an entrepreneur from another country participates in a startup mentorship program in the United States, raises a first round of funding from investors, and wants to stay here to grow the company and hire more people. Entrepreneur Pathways explains, in plain English, which existing visa categories might be available to that entrepreneur under current law, and what evidence would be necessary to demonstrate eligibility.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/11/29/new-front-door-immigrant-entrepreneurs
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/eir
http://blog.uscis.gov/2012/11/introducing-online-resource-for.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/12/01/goya-google-impact-immigrant-entrepreneurs-spurring-job-creation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/07/12/ten-ways-immigrants-help-build-and-strengthen-our-economy
Modernizing and Investing in America's Ports and Infrastructure
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/11/08/fact-sheet-modernizing-and-investing-america-s-ports-and-infrastructure
Check out the FTA Tariff Tool to find out the new tariff levels for your products, and other information about your market access under the agreement.
http://export.gov/fta/ftatarifftool/ftamain.aspx
Beginning August 1, 2012, additional women's preventive services that will be covered with no cost sharing in new health plans include:
- Well-woman visits
- Gestational diabetes
- Breastfeeding support, supplies and counseling
- Domestic violence screening-
- Contraception and contraceptive counseling
- HPV DNA testing
- STI counseling, and HIV screening and counseling
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/01/20120120a.html
President Obama's Blueprint for Manufacturing: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/01/25/everything-you-need-know-about-presidents-blueprint-manufacturing
President Obama's Executive Action to Spur Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Revitalize American
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-pen-and-phone-actions-spur-inno
Make It In America
http://manufacturing.gov/miia.html
Federal Business Opportunities
http://www.fedbizopps.gov/
Presidential Proclamation–Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Oak Creek, Wisconsin
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/06/presidential-proclamation-honoring-victims-tragedy-oak-creek-wisconsin
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/10/press-conference-president-obama
Exercising Prosetorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children. By this memorandum, I am setting forth how, in the exercise of our prosecutorial discretion, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should enforce the Nation's immigration laws against certain young people who were brought to this country as children and know only this country as home. As a general matter, these individuals lacked the intent to violate the law and our ongoing review of pending removal cases is already offering administrative closure to many of them. However, additional measures are necessary to ensure that our enforcement resources are not expended on these low priority cases but are instead appropriately focused on people who meet our enforcement priorities.
The following criteria should be satisfied before an individual is considered for an exercise of prosecutorial discretion pursuant to this memorandum:
- came to the United States under the age of sixteen;
- has continuously resided in the United States for a least five years preceding the date of this memorandum and is present in the United States on the date of this memorandum;
- is currently in school, has graduated from high school, has obtained a general education development certificate, or is an honorably discharged veteran of the Coast Guard or Armed Forces ofthe United States;
- has not been convicted of a felony offense, a significant misdemeanor offense, multiple misdemeanor offenses, or otherwise poses a threat to national security or public safety;
and
-is not above the age of thirty.
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/s1-exercising-prosecutorial-discretion-individuals-who-came-to-us-as-children.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/15/remarks-president-immigration
Animal Disaster Preparedness
http://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/AnimalsInDisasterFactSheet.pdf
http://www.ready.gov/search/node/animals
Pet Event Tracking Network (PETNet)
http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/default.htm
http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/RecallsWithdrawals/default.htm
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/newpetfoodrecalls/
http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/ucm200727.htm
http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/ucm192894.htm
Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/23/fact-sheet-plan-protect-privacy-internet-age-adopting-consumer-privacy-b
Presidential Innovation Fellows program
It's Go Time for the Presidential Innovation Fellows
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/innovation/strategy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/InnovationStrategy.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/a-strategy-for-american-innovation
http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/a-strategy-for-american-innovation-executive-summary
http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/a-strategy-for-american-innovation-introduction
http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/a-strategy-for-american-innovation-introduction
http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/a-strategy-for-american-innovation-promote-marketbased-innovation
http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/a-strategy-for-american-innovation-catalyze-breakthroughs-for-national-priorities
Ready is a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural and man-made disasters. The goal of the campaign is to get the public involved and ultimately to increase the level of basic preparedness across the nation. Ready and its Spanish language version Listo ask individuals to do three key things: (1) build an emergency supply kit, (2) make a family emergency plan and (3) be informed about the different types of emergencies that could occur and their appropriate responses. The campaign's messages have been distributed through: television, radio, print, outdoor and Web (PSAs) developed and produced by The Advertising Council; brochures; www.Ready.gov and www.Listo.gov Web sites; toll-free phone lines 1-800-BE-Ready and 1-888-SE-Listo; and partnerships with a wide variety of public and private sector organizations.
http://www.ready.gov/
http://www.listo.gov/
http://ready.gov/america/getakit/index.html
http://ready.gov/basic-disaster-supplies-kit
http://ready.gov/build-a-kit
http://ready.gov/make-a-plan
New Rule for Innocent Spouse Relief
http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/New-Rule-for-Innocent-Spouse-Relief
Resurgence American Automative Industry
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/06/03/infographic-resurgence-american-automotive-industry
Since 2009, the Small Business Administration has helped distribute more than $70 billion in loans for 150,000 small businesses.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/16/white-house-releases-small-business-agenda-growing-americas-small-busine
American manufacturers have added 334,000 jobs in the past two years
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/01/25/everything-you-need-know-about-presidents-blueprint-manufacturing
President Obama's middle-class tax cuts, first signed into law in December 2010, is providing tax relief for 160 million workers to help jumpstart the economy. For the typical family, that's $40 extra with each pay check.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/40dollars/stories
Fact Sheet: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/17/fact-sheet-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-t-tip
Lough Erne Declaration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/18/lough-erne-declaration
United States G-8 Action Plan for Transparency of Company Ownership and Control
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/18/united-states-g-8-action-plan-transparency-company-ownership-and-control
Fact Sheet: The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/18/fact-sheet-new-alliance-food-security-and-nutrition
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/Pollinator%20Research%20Action%20Plan%202015.pdf
http://www.pollinator.org/
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/gardening.shtml
http://www.nappc.org/
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/Monarch_Butterfly/do/index.shtml#butterflygarden
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/beebox.shtml
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/AttractingPollinatorsV5.pdf
http://www.fws.gov/pollinators/PollinatorPages/YourHelp.html#garden
President Obama issued a memorandum directing U.S. government agencies to take additional steps to protect and restore domestic populations of pollinators, including honey bees, native bees, birds, bats, and butterflies – critical contributors to our nation's economy, food system, and environmental health.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/20/presidential-memorandum-creating-federal-strategy-promote-health-honey-b
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/20/fact-sheet-economic-challenge-posed-declining-pollinator-populations
Michelle: Pollinator Garden
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/02/remarks-first-lady-sixth-annual-kitchen-garden-planting
The U.S. and China: New Actions to Reduce Carbon Pollution
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/11/12/us-and-china-just-announced-important-new-actions-reduce-carbon-pollution
Taking on Patent Trolls to Protect American Innovation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/04/fact-sheet-white-house-task-force-high-tech-patent-issues
Let's Move! Olympic Fun Day Meetup
http://www.letsmove.gov/meetup
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/14/first-lady-joins-team-usa-announce-nationwide-commitments-get-more-17-mi
COPS 2012 Hiring Program. Grants awarded to hire veterans for law enforcement positions as part of President Obama's Veterans Job Corps initiative
http://cops.usdoj.gov/html/dispatch/03-2012/2012CHP.asp
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/25/obama-administration-awards-vets-cops-hiring-grants
Veterans Job Bank
https://www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov/home/veterans_job_bank
http://apps.usa.gov/va-mobile-2.shtml
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/fact_sheet_on_veteran_tax_credits-1.pdf
Pres Obama Opens Health Plan to Seasonal Firefighters. Starting today, the brave men and women of our nation's federal firefighting forces, as well as their families, will have access to the health coverage they deserve. Their heroism in battling the deadly fires that have impacted states across the country this summer inspires us all. Each day, these Americans put themselves in grave danger to save the lives of people they never met, which is why I directed my administration to ensure that our nation's firefighters can count on the care and protection they need.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/30/weekly-address-all-hands-deck-approach-fighting-colorado-wildfires
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21045438/obama-directs-that-wildland-firefighters-get-health-insurance
CARS Program
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/cea/CarAllowanceRebateSystem/
Economic recovery programme created nearly 3 million jobs
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/cea_7th_arra_report.pdf
At the President's direction, the Task Force released an Interim Report in September 2009 and an Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning in December 2009. Each of these reports was made available online for public comment. The Task Force received and reviewed close to 5,000 written comments from Congress, stakeholders, and the public before finalizing its recommendations. The Task Force's Final Recommendations combine and update the proposals contained in the two earlier reports.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans/interimreport/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/091209-Interim-CMSP-Framework-Task-Force.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/files/documents/OPTF_FinalRecs.pdf
President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Coasts, and Great Lakes on July 19, 2010. The National Policy includes a set of guiding principles for management decisions and actions toward stewardship that ensures that the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes are healthy and resilient, safe and productive, and understood and treasured so as to promote the well-being, prosperity, and security of present and future generations. It prioritizes actions, including ecosystem-based management, regional ecosystem protection and restoration, and strengthened and integrated observing systems, that seek to address some of the most pressing challenges facing the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes.These strategies and objectives provide a bridge between the National Policy and action on the ground.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-stewardship-ocean-our-coasts-and-great-lakes
Section 1. Purpose. The ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes provide jobs, food, energy resources, ecological services, recreation, and tourism opportunities, and play critical roles in our Nation's transportation, economy, and trade, as well as the global mobility of our Armed Forces and the maintenance of international peace and security. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and resulting environmental crisis is a stark reminder of how vulnerable our marine environments are, and how much communities and the Nation rely on healthy and resilient ocean and coastal ecosystems. America's stewardship of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes is intrinsically linked to environmental sustainability, human health and well-being, national prosperity, adaptation to climate and other environmental changes, social justice, international diplomacy, and national and homeland security.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-stewardship-ocean-our-coasts-and-great-lakes
White House Rural Economic Council Bus Tour. President Obama will travel to the Midwest on a three-day economic bus tour, making stops in southern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa , western Illinois and Peosta, Iowa. The President will discuss ways to grow the economy, strengthen the middle class and accelerate hiring in communities and towns across the nation and hear directly from Americans, including local families and small business owners.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/rural-council
The White House marked the one-year anniversary of the White House Rural Council on June 11; and on the same day, the Rural Council released a report alongside the White House Council of Economic Advisors and USDA that notes significant progress in our efforts to grow the rural economy.
- Farm sector income experienced a rapid rebound since 2009, growing 27% in 2010 and 20% in 2011, according to preliminary estimates
- Farm sector income reached a preliminary estimate of a nominal record of $98 1 billion in 2011 Adjusting for general inflation, real farm income in 2011 recorded its 3rd highest level in the last 50 years
- Farm exports are at record levels: in FY 2011, total food and agriculture exports reached the highest level ever at $137.4 billion
- In FY 2011, agricultural exports supported more than 1 15 million American jobs
- The direct and indirect economic activity brought by farm exports supported 907,000 jobs in 2010, including 298,000 in the farm sector, 174,000 in manufacturing, and 437,000 in transportation and other service sectors
- America's agricultural trade surplus is at a record level: in FY 2011, the surplus exceeded $42 billion.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/06/11/white-house-rural-council-celebrates-its-one-year-anniversary
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/rural_communities_06_11_2012.pdf
- January 1, 2011
Free Preventive Care for Seniors. Medicare starts covering annual wellness visits and offering free preventive services including mammograms and colonoscopies.
- January 1, 2011
Lower Prescription Drug Costs for Seniors. As of January 1, 2011, seniors who reach the coverage gap received a 50 percent discount when buying Medicare Part D covered brand-name prescription drugs. Over the next ten years, seniors will receive additional savings on brand-name and generic drugs until the coverage gap is closed in 2020.
- September 1, 2011
Lowering Costs for American Consumers. Now health insurers seeking to increase their rates by 10 percent or more must submit their request to state or federal reviewers to determine whether they are reasonable or not. These reviews will bring greater transparency, accountability, and may lower costs for families and small business owners who struggle to afford coverage.
- January 1, 2012
Savings for Small Business Owners. For the third year, a tax credit is refunding small business owners like Mike Novak, a Montana grocery store owner, up to 35 percent of the premiums they pay for their workers. So far, more than 2 million workers have received coverage because of this benefit.
- January 1, 2014
More Americans Have Access to Coverage. In 2014, consumers who don't have coverage through work can use Affordable Insurance Exchanges, one-stop marketplaces where consumers can choose a private health insurance plan that fits their health needs and access the same kinds of insurance choices members of Congress will have. The new law also provides middle class tax credits to families to help pay for private health insurance. And it expands the Medicaid program to families of four with incomes of up to $29,000.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/healthreform
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/09/obamacares-cost-is-falling-as-fewer-receive-coverage-under-health-care-law-cbo-says/?hpid=z1
President's Council on Jobs & Competitiveness
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/advisory-boards/jobs-council/about
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Putting-America-Back-Work-2011-4094334?gid=4094334
The President's Back-to-School Speech
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/back-to-school
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/mediaresources/PreparedSchoolRemarks
The We The People Platform
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/wethepeople
Animal Disaster Preparedness
http://www.ready.gov/search/node/animals
http://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/AnimalsInDisasterFactSheet.pdf
Putting America Back to Work: LinkedIn Town Hall
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Putting-America-Back-Work-2011-4094334?gid=4094334
How the Affordable Care Act is helping people in your State
http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/bystate/statebystate.html
Obama Administration Establishes White House Rural Council to Strengthen Rural Communities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The White House today announced the establishment of the first White House Rural Council. While rural communities face challenges, they also present economic potential. To address these challenges, build on the Administration's rural economic strategy, and improve the implementation of that strategy, the President signed an Executive Order establishing the White House Rural Council. "Strong rural communities are key to a stronger America," said President Barack Obama. "That's why I've established the White House Rural Council to make sure we're working across government to strengthen rural communities and promote economic growth." The White House Rural Council will coordinate programs across government to encourage public-private partnerships to promote further economic prosperity and quality of life in rural communities nationwide. Chaired by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the Council will be responsible for providing recommendations for investment in rural areas and will coordinate Federal engagement with a variety of rural stakeholders, including agricultural organizations, small businesses, and state, local, and tribal governments. "Rural America makes significant contributions to the security, prosperity, and economic strength of our country," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "The Rural Council announced by President Obama shows his continued focus on promoting economic opportunity, creating jobs, and enhancing the quality of life for those who live in rural America. Together with the rest of the Obama administration, USDA has worked to support families and businesses in rural communities so that their success will pay dividends for all Americans." In the coming months, the White House Rural Council will focus on job creation and economic development by increasing the flow of capital to rural areas, promoting innovation, expanding digital and physical networks, and celebrating opportunity through America's natural resources. The Council will begin discussing key factors for growth, including:
• Jobs: Improve job training and workforce development in rural America
• Agriculture: Expand markets for agriculture, including regional food systems and exports
• Access to Credit: Increase opportunity by expanding access to capital in rural communities and fostering local investment
• Innovation: Promote the expansion of biofuels production capacity and community based renewable energy projects
• Networks: Develop high-growth regional economies by capitalizing on inherent regional strengths
• Health Care: Improve access to quality health care through expansion of health technology systems
• Education: Increase post-secondary enrollment rates and completion for rural students
• Broadband: Support the President's plan to increase broadband opportunities in rural America
• Infrastructure: Coordinate investment in critical infrastructure
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/09/obama-administration-establishes-white-house-rural-council-strengthen-ru
How the Affordable Care Act is helping people in your State
http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/bystate/statebystate.html
The Greater Together Student Summit Tour
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/youngamericans
https://www.barackobama.com/young-americans/student-summit/
http://www.genfortyfour.com/
http://wunc.org/post/hundreds-nccu-obama-hbcu-summit
http://www.c-span.org/video/?305379-1/greater-together-student-summit
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-slogan-greater-together-043438166.html
Every Student, Every Day
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/every-student-every-day-obama-administration-launches-first-ever-national-cross-sector-initiative-eliminate-chronic-absenteeism-our-nations-schools
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Official Groundbreaking Ceremony
http://www.nmaahc.si.edu/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/opening-day-new-national-museum-african-american-history-and-culture-announced-180958014/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_African_American_History_and_Culture
https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/13/smithsonian-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-photos/
Community College to Career Bus Tour
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/02/13/president-obamas-plan-train-2-million-workers-jobs-high-demand-industries
Obama administration supports workers
http://www.uaw.org/page/obama-administration-supports-workers
President Obama Honors Iraq Veterans at the White House: White House Dinner. Honoring those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/02/29/president-obama-honors-iraq-veterans-white-house
StartUp America
http://www.startupamericapartnership.org/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy/business/startup-america/progress-report#access-to-capital
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy/business/startup-america/progress-report#connecting-mentors
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy/business/startup-america/progress-report#reducing-barriers
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy/business/startup-america/progress-report#accelerating-innovation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy/business/startup-america/progress-report#unleashing-market-opportunities
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-gainesville
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-brandeis-university
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-florida-state-university
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-austin
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-rice-university
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-homeaway
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-triangle-duke-and-university-north-carolina
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-nyc
http://www.s.co/event/startup-weekend-honolulu-green-house
http://www.s.co/event/3-day-startup-university-wisconsin-madison
Military.com Career Fairs
http://www.military.com/hiringourheroes/
President Barack Obama signed S.1055, a bill to grant the Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, in recognition of their dedicated service during World War II. October 5, 2010
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/legislation/s-1055-congressional-gold-medal-100th-infantry-battalion-and-442nd-regimental-combat-tea
WHITE HOUSE REPORT: Investing in our Future: Helping Teachers and Schools Prepare Our Children for College and Careers
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/13/white-house-report-investing-our-future-helping-teachers-and-schools-pre
http://edit.whitehouse.gov/node/add/%3ehttp:/www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/final_investing_in_our_future_report.pdf%3c
Barack & Michelle Visit Ireland
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/president-barack-obama-and-first-lady-michelle-obama-visit-ireland
http://dublin.usembassy.gov/president-obama-visits-ireland/photo-gallery-president-obama-visits-ireland.html
President Obama tours Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/22/remarks-president-hall-children-yad-vashem
President Obama lays a wreath at the graves of Theodor Herzl and Yitzhak Rabin
Mt. Herzl, Jerusalem, Israel
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/03/22/third-day-middle-east-trip-president-obama-visits-jewish-and-christian-landmarks
President Obama delivers a speech to the Israeli people
Jerusalem International Convention Center, Jerusalem, Israel
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/21/remarks-president-barack-obama-people-israel
President Obama is hosted at a state dinner by President Peres
President Peres will award President Obama with the Israeli Medal of Distinction
Beit HaNassi, Jerusalem, Israel
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/21/remarks-president-and-president-peres-israel-state-dinner
President Obama holds a press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu
Beit Rosh Hamemshala, Jerusalem, Israel
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/20/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-netanyahu-israel-joint-press-
President Obama holds a press conference with President Mahmoud Abbas
Ramallah, State of Palestine
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/21/remarks-president-obama-and-president-abbas-palestinian-authority-joint-
Trade Enforcement Unit
http://www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/enforcement/itec
2012 International Summit on the Teaching Profession
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-host-education-leaders-around-world-2012-international-s
Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-Private_Investment_Program_for_Legacy_Assets
Green Button: Enabling Energy Innovation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/05/02/green-button-enabling-energy-innovation
Obama Administration Announces Initiative to Scale Up Investment in Clean Energy Innovation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/10/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-initiative-scale-investment-cl
Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future
• Increasing American Energy Independence
• Expanding Domestic Oil and Gas Production
• Setting Historic New Fuel Economy Standards
• Improving Energy Efficiency in 1 Million Homes
• Doubling Renewable Energy Generation
• Developing Advanced, Alternative Fuels
• Supporting Cutting-Edge Research
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/blueprint_secure_energy_future.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/12/blueprint-secure-energy-future-one-year-progress-report
Seoul Nuclear Security Summit 2012
Participants (source: 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit page) Heads of 53 states which participated in the 1st Washington Nuclear Security Summit. (Republic of Korea, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam). Heads of international organizations which participated in the Washington Summit (the UN, IAEA, and EU). INTERPOL was added to the group of participants as agreed upon between the participating countries and international organizations.
http://www.thenuclearsecuritysummit.org/eng_info/overview.jsp
Commissioning of United States Coast Guard Cutter STRATTON (USCGC STRATTON)
Coast Guard Cutter Stratton was honored to have First Lady Michelle Obama, the ship's sponsor, welcome it into service. With her name carved into the keel, Obama participated in the commissioning ceremony – placing the cutter into active service and ceremonially giving the order to bring the ship to life. All the more fitting way to end a month spent celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of women to our nation. "No matter what this country asks of you, you always step up to answer the call," said Obama to the Coast Guard men and women attending the commissioning ceremony. "Always. So it is fitting that all of you are here today, because it is that ethic of service that defined the life of this cutter's namesake, Capt. Dorothy Stratton." As Capt. Stratton did 70 years ago for women, Cutter Stratton will do for the Coast Guard's operational future.
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2012/03/first-lady-welcomes-newest-cutter/
JoiningForces
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/joiningforces/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/05/fact-sheet-part-5th-anniversary-joining-forces-first-lady-michelle-obama
http://apps.usa.gov/national-resource-directory.shtml
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/05/fact-sheet-part-5th-anniversary-joining-forces-first-lady-michelle-obama
Strengthening Military Families
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/24/presidential-initiative-supports-military-families
TRICARE Affirmation Act of 2010
https://www.congress.gov/111/plaws/publ159/PLAW-111publ159.pdf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/TRICARE_Affirmation_Act
USA4 Military Families
http://www.usa4militaryfamilies.dod.mil/portal/page/portal/USA4/HOMEPAGE_V3
6th Summit of the Americas
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/04/14/president-obama-summit-americas
http://www.oas.org/en/member_states/default.asp
NATO Summit Chicago 2012
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/05/20/president-obama-attends-nato-summit-chicago
http://www.chicagonato.org/
http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/globalagdevelopment/gad/Events/Symposium_2012.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Chicago_summit
2012 G20 Leader's Summit
http://www.g20.org/en
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/19/g20-leaders-declaration
RIO+2.0
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/09/joint-statement-president-obama-and-president-rousseff
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20
Joplin Day of Unity
President Obama At Joplin High School 2012 Graduation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/21/remarks-president-joplin-high-school-commencement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/05/29/president-obama-joplin-its-example-what-american-spirit-all-about
http://www.joplintornadoanniversary.com/
"Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States. Our security is affected when masses of civilians are slaughtered, refugees flow across borders, and murderers wreak havoc on regional stability and livelihoods. America's reputation suffers, and our ability to bring about change is constrained, when we are perceived as idle in the face of mass atrocities and genocide. Unfortunately, history has taught us that our pursuit of a world where states do not systematically slaughter civilians will not come to fruition without concerted and coordinated effort." President Obama – Presidential Study Directive 10, August 4, 2011
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/04/presidential-study-directive-mass-atrocities
Summer Jobs+ "America's young people face record unemployment, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they've got the opportunity to earn the skills and a work ethic that come with a job. It's important for their future, and for America's. That's why I proposed a summer jobs program for youth in the American Jobs Act — a plan that Congress failed to pass. America's youth can't wait for Congress to act. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. That's why today, we're launching Summer Jobs+, a joint initiative that challenges business leaders and communities to join my Administration in providing hundreds of thousands of summer jobs for America's youth"
http://www.dol.gov/summerjobs/
https://webapps.dol.gov/summerjobs
Cracking Down On Manipulation In Oil Markets
1. Requesting Immediate Funding to Put More "Cops on the Beat" Overseeing Oil Markets
2. Funding Critical Technology Upgrades in the Oversight and Surveillance of Energy Market Activity
3. Substantially Increasing Civil and Criminal Penalties for Manipulation in Key Energy Markets
4. Empowering the CFTC to Raise Margin Requirements in Oil Futures Markets
5. Taking Immediate Steps to Expand Access to CFTC Data to Better Understand Trading Trends in Oil Markets
1. Immediate Funding to Put More "Cops on the Beat" Overseeing Oil Markets
2. Critical Technology Upgrades in the Oversight and Surveillance of Energy Market Activity
3. Increased Civil and Criminal Penalties for Manipulation in Key Energy Markets:
4. New Authorities for the CFTC to Raise Margin Requirements in Oil Futures Markets
5. Immediate Steps to Expand Access to CFTC Data to Better Understand Trading Trends in Oil Markets
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/17/fact-sheet-increasing-oversight-and-cracking-down-manipulation-oil-marke
Summer Food Service Program
http://www.summerfood.usda.gov/
"100 Youth Roundtables" Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/youngamericans
https://youtu.be/lYYLRkfVKWo
EnergySavers.gov
http://www.energysavers.gov/
Building the 21st Century Grid
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/smart-grid-press-release-6-13-2011.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/nstc-smart-grid-june2011.pdf
Netroots Nation amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Through our annual convention and a series of regional salons held throughout the year, we strengthen our community, inspire action and serve as an incubator for ideas that challenge the status quo and ultimately affect change in the public sphere.
http://netrootsnation.org/
Fatherhood. "On Father's Day, we honor the men in our lives who have helped shape us for the good, and we recommit to supporting fatherhood in our families, in our communities, and across our Nation.Fathers, along with our mothers, are our first teachers, coaches, and advisors. They help us grow into adults, consoling us in times of need and celebrating with us in times of triumph. Strong male role models come in all forms, but they have one thing in common: they show up and give it their best. A father figure may be a biological father, or he may be a surrogate father who raises, mentors, or cares for another's child. Every family is different, but what matters is the unconditional support, guidance, and love fathers and mentors give us throughout life."
https://www.fatherhood.gov/content/presidents-fatherhood-pledge
https://fatherhood.gov/fatherhood-buzz
President's Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative. Fatherlessness is a growing crisis in America, one that undergirds many of the challenges that families are facing. When dads aren't around, young people are more likely to drop out of school, use drugs, be involved in the criminal justice system, and become young parents themselves. President Obama has said that being a father to Malia and Sasha is the most important job he has. At the same time, growing up without a dad himself, the President understands firsthand the holes that fathers leave in their families when they are absent. The President is joining with fathers across the nation to send a strong message about personal responsibility and 'stepping up to the plate,' while supporting fathers who want to be there for their kids, even dads facing challenges in their lives. That's what the President's Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative is all about.
https://www.fatherhood.gov/content/presidents-fatherhood-pledge
https://fatherhood.gov/fatherhood-buzz
The President and First Lady are hosting the 2011 White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 25, 2011 with the theme of "Get Up and Go!" promoting health and wellness.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/04/25/watch-live-2011-white-house-easter-egg-roll
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US – Brazil Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/brazil
US – Chile Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/chile
US – El Salvador Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/el-salvador
US – South Africa Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/southern-africa/south-africa
US – Botswana Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/southern-africa/botswana
United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3080:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/06/presidental-proclamation-united-states-korea-free-trade-agreement
United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3079:
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3078:
U.S.-Canada Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/canada
U.S.-Mexico Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/mexico
U.S.-Costa Rica Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/archives/2004/january/us-and-costa-rica-reach-agreement-free-tr
US – Israel Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/middle-east/north-africa/israel
US – Jordan Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/middle-east/north-africa/jordan
U.S.-Senegal Trade http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/west-africa/senegal.
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/west-africa/senegal.
U.S.-South Africa Trade http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/southern-africa/south-africa
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/southern-africa/south-africa
U.S.- Tanzania Trade http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/east-africa/tanzania
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/africa/east-africa/tanzania
US – EU Trade Agreement
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/europe/european-union
US-India Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/south-central-asia/india
US-Singapore Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/singapore
U.S.-Japan Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/japan-korea-apec/japan
U.S.-South Korea Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/japan-korea-apec/korea
U.S.- Malaysia Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/malaysia
U.S.- Phillipine Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/philippines
US – Brazil Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/brazil
US – Colombia Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/colombia
US – Dominican Republic Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/dominican-republic
US – Guatemala Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/guatemala
US – China Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china
US – Burma Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/burma
US – Australia Trade
http://www.ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/australian-fta
U.S.-India Trade Agreements
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/fact-sheets/2014/November/US-India-Agreement-on-Trade-Facilitation
Promoting Energy Security in the Caribbean
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/19/fact-sheet-promoting-energy-security-caribbean
The U.S.-Brazil Bilateral Relationship
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/fact-sheet-us-brazil-bilateral-relationship
The United States and Colombia
http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/colombia
FACT SHEET: The United States and Colombia
US-Romania Bilateral Fact Sheet
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35722.htm
Trans-Pacific Partnership
http://www.ustr.gov/tpp
Inital Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations – Washington, DC. Fact Sheet: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP). Today President Obama, together with European Commission President Barroso and European Council President Van Rompuy, announced that the United States and the European Union (EU) will be launching negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) agreement. The first round of T-TIP negotiations will take place the week of July 8 in Washington, D.C., under the leadership of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. T-TIP will be an ambitious, comprehensive, and high-standard trade and investment agreement that offers significant benefits in terms of promoting U.S. international competitiveness, jobs, and growth. T-TIP will aim to boost economic growth in the United States and the EU and add to the more than 13 million American and EU jobs already supported by transatlantic trade and investment. In particular, T-TIP will aim to:
- Further open EU markets, increasing the $458 billion in goods and private services the United States exported in 2012 to the EU, our largest export market.
- Strengthen rules-based investment to grow the world's largest investment relationship. The United States and the EU already maintain a total of nearly $3.7 trillion in investment in each other's economies (as of 2011).
- Eliminate all tariffs on trade.
- Tackle costly "behind the border" non-tariff barriers that impede the flow of goods, including agricultural goods.
- Obtain improved market access on trade in services.
- Significantly reduce the cost of differences in regulations and standards by promoting greater compatibility, transparency, and cooperation, while maintaining our high levels of health, safety, and environmental protection.
- Develop rules, principles, and new modes of cooperation on issues of global concern, including intellectual property and market-based disciplines addressing state-owned enterprises and discriminatory localization barriers to trade.
- Promote the global competitiveness of small- and medium-sized enterprises.
http://www.ustr.gov/ttip
http://www.ustr.gov/trade-topics/enforcement/itec
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/30/remarks-president-export-import-bank-bill-signing
From Chaos to Community: Ending violence and Saving our Children
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/defendingchildhood/pages/attachments/2015/03/23/ending_violence_so_children_can_thrive.pdf
We the Geeks" Google+ Hangout on "The Stuff Superheroes Are Made Of"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/07/17/we-geeks-stuff-superheroes-are-made
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/we-the-geeks
Attorney General Holder Announces Federal Law Enforcement Agencies To Adopt Stricter Policies To Curb Profiling
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-holder-announces-federal-law-enforcement-agencies-adopt-stricter-policies-0
U.S.-ROK Alliance 60th Anniversary
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/07/joint-declaration-commemoration-60th-anniversary-alliance-between-republ
Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour
- Investing in American manufacturing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/02/13/plan-revitalize-american-manufacturing
- Rebuilding Our Nation's Infrastructure
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/20/fact-sheet-president-s-plan-make-america-magnet-jobs-investing-infrastru
- President Obama's plan for a cleaner and more secure energy future.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/15/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-blueprint-clean-and-secure-energy-future
- Expanding access to high-quality preschool to every child in America
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/02/14/president-obama-high-quality-pre-k-good-bang-your-educational-buck
- Helping make higher education affordable
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/education/higher-education
- Building a fair, effective and common sense immigration system
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/immigration
- Ensuring hard work leads to a decent living
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/15/fact-sheet-president-s-plan-ensure-hard-work-leads-decent-living
- President Obama's plan to raise the minimum wage
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/13/fact-sheet-president-s-plan-reward-work-raising-minimum-wage
"Global trade is unsustainable if it favors only the few. This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. Together, we must forge trade that truly rewards the work that creates wealth, with meaningful protections for our people and our planet. This is the moment for trade that is free and fair for all. "
Senator Barack Obama – Speech in Berlin Jul 24, 2008
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,567932,00.html
Doing Business in Trinidad & Tobago
http://trinidad.usembassy.gov/doing-business-local.html
Rebuild America Partnership to Put Workers Back on the Job & Build the Infrastructure we Need to Succeed in the Global Economy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/29/rebuild-america-partnership-president-s-plan-encourage-private-investmen
Presidential Innovation Fellows
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov//innovationfellows
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/innovationfellows/opendata
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/17/executive-order-presidential-innovation-fellows-program
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/innovationfellows/disaster-response-recovery
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/innovationfellows/myusa
RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/innovationfellows/rfp-ez
Cyber-Physical Systems
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/innovationfellows/cyber-physical-systems
135th White House Easter Egg Roll
"This weekend, Michelle and I join our fellow Christians here at home and around the world in marking Good Friday and celebrating Easter. These Holy Days are a time to reflect on the momentous sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for each of us, and to celebrate the triumph of the Resurrection and His gift of grace. It is a time for renewed hope amidst continued challenges. It's also a time to ponder the common values that unite us — to have compassion for all and to treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves. As we embrace our loved ones and give thanks for our blessings, we wish all who celebrate with us a blessed Easter."
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/04/01/be-healthy-be-active-be-you-2013-white-house-easter-egg-roll
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/25/white-house-announces-special-guest-costume-characters-easter-egg-roll-d
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2013_childrens_activity_book_2.pdf
NIH
BRAIN Initiative Challenges Researchers to Unlock Mysteries of Human Mind
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/04/02/brain-initiative-challenges-researchers-unlock-mysteries-human-mind
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/02/fact-sheet-brain-initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/02/remarks-president-brain-initiative-and-american-innovation
http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/?sf11140127=1
http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/?sf11140127=1#what
http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/?sf11140127=1#why
http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/?sf11140127=1#how
http://directorsblog.nih.gov/welcoming-the-brain-initiative/
http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/acd-charge.pdf
http://directorsblog.nih.gov/the-symphony-inside-your-brain/
* Recovery Act Investments in our Environment
http://www.recovery.gov/arra/Pages/default.aspx
* Protecting Our Oceans
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/oceans
* Supporting Land Conservation
http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/index.cfm
* Prioritizing Clean Water
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/clean-water
* Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Coal Mining
http://www.epa.gov/wetlands/pdf/Final_MTM_MOU_6-11-09.pdf
* Reducing Air Pollution From Vehicles and from Power Plants
http://www.epa.gov/oms/standards.htm
* Restoring our Treasured Great Ecosystems
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/gulfcoast
* Working Toward Environmental Justice
http://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/
* Supporting Sustainable Communities
http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov/
* Modernizing the National Environmental Policy Act
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/nepa
* Reducing Global Emissions of Mercury
http://www.epa.gov/international/toxics/mercury/index.html
* Federal Buildings Leading By Example
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/09/10/federal-buildings-leading-example
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/09/16/instructions-implementing-sustainable-locations-federal-facilities
Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities. Many communities around the country are asking for tools to help them achieve their desired development goals, improve quality of life, and become more economically and environmentally sustainable. In response to this demand, EPA developed the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program. Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities provides quick, targeted technical assistance to selected local and/or tribal governments using a variety of tools that have demonstrated results and widespread application. The purpose of delivering these tools is to stimulate a discussion about growth and development and strengthen local capacity to implement sustainable approaches. In 2013, EPA will select up to 44 communities for assistance. Each technical assistance project in a community will include:
- Public engagement, a one-day workshop that is open to the public.
- Direct consultation with relevant decision-makers.
- A memo outlining specific steps the community could take to implement the ideas generated during the site visit.
Technical assistance will be delivered by EPA staff. In addition, four nonprofit organizations with extensive expertise in sustainable communities will select up to 55 additional communities for assistance. These organizations-Forterra, Global Green USA, Project for Public Spaces, and Smart Growth America-have received grants from EPA to offer assistance using tools they have chosen.
http://epa.gov/smartgrowth/buildingblocks.htm
https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth
https://www.sustainablecommunities.gov/partnership-resources
Sustainability
http://epa.gov/sustainability/index.htm
http://epa.gov/sustainability/basicinfo.htm
President Obama hosted the 3rd Annual White House Science Fair and celebrated the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/2013_scifair_students.pdf
In March 2012, the President issued an Executive Order launching a government-wide initiative to improve the efficiency of Federal review and permitting of infrastructure projects. Since then, agencies have expedited the review and permitting of 50 major projects, including bridges, transit projects, railways, waterways, roads, and renewable energy. In just one example, Federal agencies recently approved the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project in New York, saving up to three years on the timeline of a multi-billion project that will help put Americans back to work.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/22/executive-order-improving-performance-federal-permitting-and-review-infr
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/reports/report-to-the-president-rebuilding-americas-infrastructure.pdf
http://www.permits.performance.gov/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/17/creating-jobs-faster-cutting-timelines-half-major-infrastructure-project
H.R.5021 – Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014
https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5021″
Executive Order 13592 — Improving American Indian and Alaska Native Educational Opportunities and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/02/executive-order-13592-improving-american-indian-and-alaska-native-educat
Drug Policy Reform In Action: A 21st Century Approach
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/drugpolicyreform
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/01/24/blueprint-america-built-last
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/04/24/drug-policy-reform-action-21st-century-approach
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/04/10/president-s-fy-2014-budget-supporting-21st-century-drug-policy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/12/12/independent-fact-checkers-report-president-obama-kept-promise-send-non-violent-drug-
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/10/19/first-ever-national-above-influence-day
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/02/25/what-drug-policy-reform-looks
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov//sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/ndcs_2013.pdf
Executive Order — Instituting a National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/19/executive-order-instituting-national-action-plan-women-peace-and-securit
Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
Presidential Memorandum — Establishing Policies for Addressing Domestic Violence in the Federal Workforce
April 2012
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/18/presidential-memorandum-establishing-policies-addressing-domestic-violen
Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.2038:
Post-Deployment/Mobilization Respite Absence Program Modification
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/legislation/post-deploymentmobilization-respite-absence-program-modification
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.4045:
Veteran Skills to Jobs Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/4155/text
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.4155:
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.4348:
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/mission/policy/map-21-moving-ahead-progress-21st-century-act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Ahead_for_Progress_in_the_21st_Century_Act
Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.743:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s743/text
Presidential Memorandum — Emergency Leave Transfer Program for Federal Employees Adversely Affected by Hurricane Sandy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/09/presidential-memorandum-emergency-leave-transfer-program-federal-employe
Executive Order — Establishing the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/12/07/executive-order-establishing-hurricane-sandy-rebuilding-task-force
National Flood Insurance Program Extension
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.5740:
http://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program/national-flood-insurance-program-reauthorization-guidance
H.R. 3672 – "Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2012."
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3672:
H.R. 3421 – Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3421:
H.R. 2867 – "U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2011"
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.112hr2867
S. 278 – "Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District Land Exchange Act of 2011"
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/rss/presentedtopresident.html
White House Council on Women. Forum on Women and the Economy.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/cwg
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/04/06/white-house-forum-women-and-economy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/email-files/womens_report_final_for_print.pdf
In 2009, 1,470 people who made more than $1 million paid $0 in federal income tax. That means that while millions of middle class families paid their fair share in taxes that year—money that went to funding things like education, our military, and health care for seniors—a small group of high-income Americans paid nothing at all. Want to know how your tax dollars are spent? Check out your 2011 Federal Taxpayer Receipt.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/2011-taxreceipt
Ending of the Iraq War
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/video/2010/08/31/end-combat-mission-iraq
Insourcing American Jobs
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/01/07/weekly-address-continuing-grow-economy-new-year
How Bold Investments By the Administration in the Auto Industry and City of Detroit Put Americans Back to Work and Strengthened the Economy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/20/fact-sheet-how-bold-investments-administration-auto-industry-and-city
President Obama has appointed 117 minorities to the federal judiciary; more than any other President. President Obama has appointed 26 African American women to the federal bench; more than any other President.
President Obama has appointed 37 Hispanics to the federal bench; more than any other President.
President Obama has appointed 20 Asians to the federal bench; more than any other President.
President Obama has appointed 11 LGBT judges; more than every other President combined.
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:s.815:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act
List of things named after Barack Obama, the 44th and current President of the United States :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Barack_Obama
Presidential Proclamation — Women's Equality Day, 2013
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/23/presidential-proclamation-womens-equality-day-2013
Rebuilding Middle-Class Education Security. President Obama discusses the importance of keeping college costs down for middle class families on a two day bus tour through Syracuse, Binghamton and Buffalo, NY and Scranton, PA
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/a-better-bargain
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/22/remarks-president-college-affordability-buffalo-ny
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/22/remarks-president-college-affordability-syracuse-ny
http://www.buffalo.edu/home/feature_story/obama-speech.html
http://www.binghamton.edu/inside/index.php/inside/story/stenger-honored-to-have-obama-visit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/08/22/president-obama-explains-his-plan-combat-rising-college-costs
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy/middle-class/helping-middle-class-families-pay-for-college
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/23/remarks-president-and-vice-president-college-affordability
Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/24/president-obama-launches-advanced-manufacturing-partnership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-pen-and-phone-actions-spur-inno
Stop.Think.Connect. is a national public awareness effort to guide the nation to a higher level of Internet safety by challenging the American public to be more vigilant about practicing good "cyber hygiene." It will persuade Americans to see Internet safety as a shared responsibility—at home, in the workplace, and in our communities—and demonstrate that shared responsibility by bringing together a coalition of federal, state and local government, as well as private sector partners. The creation of Stop. Think. Connect. was the result of an intensive collaborative effort over the past year from the Online Consumer Security and Safety Messaging Convention, an effort organized by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), key industry leaders, government agencies, and nonprofits. Led by the Department of Homeland Security, the ultimate goal of Stop. Think. Connect. is to raise awareness among the American public about the need to strengthen cybersecurity—and to generate and communicate new approaches and strategies to help Americans increase their safety and security online.
http://www.dhs.gov/files/events/stop-think-connect.shtm
On Friday, July 29th President Obama announces an national effort to improve fuel efficiency for new fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars and light trucks. The new U.S. fuel economy average will start with 2017 models and increases by the year 2025 cars to 54.5 mph (an increase of 5%); light trucks will increase by 3.5% + 5%. The price of the more fuel efficient automobiles will cost more but the savings in the amount of gasoline consumed will be an offset. Ceres, a national coalition of investors and public interest organizations, released a report detailing what stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards would mean for the U.S. economy. In the Ceres report titled "More Jobs Per Gallon" report it showed that President Obama's new 54.5 mpg fuel efficiency standards we can expect:
* Approximately 484,000 new jobs in the United States by 2030.
* 43,000 of those would be full-time jobs in the auto sector.
* Consumers would save approximately $107 billion at the pump in 2030 compared to business as usual.
* 49 states would see net job gains.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/29/president-obama-announces-historic-545-mpg-fuel-efficiency-standard
http://www.ceres.org/press/press-releases/more-jobs-per-gallon
Increasing Fuel Efficiency for Trucks and Saving Families Money. The President will propose new incentives for medium- and heavy-duty trucks to run on natural gas or other alternative fuels and the infrastructure needed to run them.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/18/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-improving-fuel-efficiency-american-trucks-bol
America's Great Outdoors Initiative. President Barack Obama today announced the Administration's action plan, under the America's Great Outdoors initiative, to achieve lasting conservation of the outdoor spaces that power our nation's economy, shape our culture, and build our outdoor traditions. This initiative seeks to reinvigorate our approach to conservation and reconnect Americans, especially young people, with the lands and waters that are used for farming and ranching, hunting and fishing, and for families to spend quality time together. Recognizing that many of these places and resources are under intense pressure, the President established the America's Great Outdoors Initiative last April to work with the American people in developing a conservation and recreation agenda that makes sense for the 21st century.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/Press_Releases/February_16_2011
President Obama Hosts Wounded Warriors
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/04/17/president-obama-hosts-wounded-warriors-taking-part-soldier-ride-white-house
President Obama will donate after-tax proceeds from his children's book,
"Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters," to a scholarship program run by the Fisher House Foundation, dedicated to providing scholarships to the children of fallen and disabled service members.
http://www.fisherhouse.org/programs/scholarship-obama.html
http://www.fisherhouse.org/programs/scholarship-obama.html
President Obama issued a proclamation urging U.S. citizens to fly the American flag for the duration of National Flag Week:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-flag-day-and-national-flag-week
White House Conference on Bullying Prevention
http://www.stopbullying.gov/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/10/background-white-house-conference-bullying-prevention
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/10/remarks-president-and-first-lady-white-house-conference-bullying-prevent
Military Spouses Residency Relief Act of 2009
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.475:
http://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=57166
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (S. 3307)
http://edlabor.house.gov/blog/2010/11/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act-o.shtml
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/3307
http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/HealthyHungerFreeKidsActof2010.pdf
Helping Heroes Keep Their Homes Act of 2010
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.4058:
New START (for STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty) (Russian: СНВ-III)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_START_treaty
Promise Neighborhoods. The Promise Neighborhoods program is based on the experience of programs such as the Harlem Children's Zone, which has boosted students' academic outcomes dramatically. Under the Promise Neighborhood program, non-profit organizations (which may include faith-based non-profits) and institutions of higher education will be eligible for one-year grants supporting the design of comprehensive community programs.
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/promiseneighborhoods/index.html
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2015/04/0116.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/economicdevelopment/programs/pz/overview
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/19/obama-administration-launches-second-promise-zone-competition-create-eco
US Government Official Apology To The Native Americans
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.J.RES.14:
http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/resolution_of_apology_to_native_.htm
On June 2, First Lady Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin unveiled a new food icon that will serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. The 2010 White House Child Obesity Task Force called for simple, actionable advice to equip consumers with information to help them make healthy food choices. As a result, the USDA has a new website called MyPlate.gov that can help to:
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
http://www.myfoodapedia.gov/
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback/
https://www.dea.gov/take-back/takeback-news.shtml
http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2016/04/national-drug-take-back-day-a-great-time-to-dispose-of-prescription-medications-cluttering-your-cabinets/
National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists found multiple uses for thin film lithium ion conductors – for batteries and for solar cells.
http://www.nrel.gov/
VA takes steps to immediately enhance access to care
http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/14261/va-takes-steps-to-immediately-enhance-access-to-care/
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.1963:
Repealed the Bennett Freeze section10(f) of Public Law 93-531, thus setting the stage for the Navajos to begin seeking federal funding to rehabilitate an area larger than the state of Delaware that has had no significant development for four decades. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., who sponsored the bill in the House, said it was about time that the federal government start addressing the problems caused by the freeze, which prevented Navajos on roughly 1.5 million acres around Tuba City from developing their communities or, in many cases, from even keeping their houses in repair. The freeze was imposed after the Hopi Tribe filed suit in 1966 to add that land to the 1.8 million acres that was part of the original Navajo-Hopi land dispute. Then BIA director Robert Bennett issued an order suspending development on the land pending a decision in the court case, effectively preventing the 8,000 Navajos living in the area from building new homes, improving roads and infrastructure, or making improvements on their existing homes. Over the next 40 years, life stood still under the Bennett Freeze area as Navajo families watched as other areas of the reservation receive improvements such as electricity and running water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bennett_Freeze
Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012
- Extends Medicare payments to doctors, giving seniors the advantage to keep their doctors
- Extends the two percent Social Security payroll tax cut
- Extends unemployment benefits
- Calls for an establishment of a national public safety broadband network to:
--Expand high-speed wireless broadband
--Give better access to first responders
- Expands Federal Emergency Management Agency aid
- Extends Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- Reduces federal deficit over 11 years
- Extends job incentives to small businesses
- Improves work search for the long unemployed
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3630:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Class_Tax_Relief_and_Job_Creation_Act_of_2012
https://www.congress.gov/112/plaws/publ96/PLAW-112publ96.pdf
Providing the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.1162:
Presidential Memorandum — Tracing of Firearms in Connection with Criminal Investigations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/presidential-memorandum-tracing-firearms-connection-criminal-investigati
Presidential Memorandum — Engaging in Public Health Research on the Causes and Prevention of Gun Violence
January 16, 2013
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/presidential-memorandum-engaging-public-health-research-causes-and-preve
Presidential Memorandum — Improving Availability of Relevant Executive Branch Records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/presidential-memorandum-improving-availability-relevant-executive-branch
Presidential Memorandum — Engaging in Public Health Research on the Causes and Prevention of Gun Violence
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/presidential-memorandum-engaging-public-health-research-causes-and-pre-0
James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/wtc/html/health_compensation/health_compensation_act.shtml
Open Government Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/30/fact-sheet-new-steps-toward-ensuring-openness-and-transparency
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/DCPD-200900010/pdf/DCPD-200900010.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/open/documents/open-government-directive
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO, or "the Act")
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3173:
Startup America initiative. The Startup America Partnership supports a national network of startup communities dedicated to advancing the success of American startups. Hundreds of passionate founders, entrepreneurial leaders, investors, mentors and executives, (Startup Champions), are working together to strengthen their local communities and help young companies grow.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/startup-america
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB)
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act)
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ203/content-detail.html
National Export Initiative (NEI)
http://trade.gov/nei/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-details-administration-efforts-support-two-million-new-jobs-promoti
Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record for members of the U.S. Armed Forces to improve quality of medical care.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/09/04/09/The-Care-They-Were-Promised-and-the-Benefits-That-They-Have-Earned/
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Today I have signed into law H.R. 146, the "Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009." This landmark bill will protect millions of acres of Federal land as wilderness, protect more than 1,000 miles of rivers through the National Wild and Scenic River System, and designate thousands of miles of trails for the National Trails System. It also will authorize the 26 million-acre National Landscape Conservation System within the Department of the Interior. Among other provisions, H.R. 146 designates three new units in our National Park System, enlarges the boundaries of several existing parks, and designates a number of National Heritage Areas. It creates a new national monument — the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument –- and four new national conservation areas, and establishes the Wyoming Range Withdrawal Area. It establishes a collaborative landscape-scale restoration program with a goal of reducing the risk of wildfire and authorizes programs to study and research the effects of climate change on natural resources and other research-related activities. Treasured places from coast to coast will benefit from H.R. 146, including Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan; Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia; Oregon's Mount Hood; Idaho's Owyhee Canyons; the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado; Zion National Park in Utah; remarkable landscapes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California; and wilderness-quality National Forest lands in Virginia and public lands in New Mexico.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the_press_office/Statement-from-the-Presidents-signing-statements-on-HR-146-the-Omnibus-Public-Lands-Management-Act/
This is a historic day for conservation. For years, volunteers and conservationists from coast to coast have worked tirelessly to make this happen. This is the most important lands protection legislation in decades. Athan Manuel, Sierra Club Public Lands Director 3/30/2009
http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=99681.0
The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act of 2010 (Pub.L. 111-147, 124 Stat. 71, enacted June 2010, 03) is a law in the 111th United States Congress to provide payroll tax breaks and incentives for businesses to hire unemployed workers. Often characterized as a "jobs bill," the Democrats in Congress insist that it is only one piece of a broader job creation legislative agenda, along with the Travel Promotion Act and other bills. Legislative history. The Senate passed the bill on February 24, 2010 by a vote of 70-28. The House of Representatives followed on March 4, 2010, passing an amended version (in compliance with new pay-as-you-go rules) by a vote of 217-201. On March 17, the Senate agreed to the House's amendment by a vote of 68-29, and sent the bill to President Barack Obama, who signed the bill on March 18, 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIRE_Act
Fuel Efficiency Standards of Medium and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. In his State of the Union address, the President outlined a comprehensive agenda to make America a magnet for middle class jobs and business investment. The President highlighted the autoworker, who, implementing the Administration's historic fuel economy standards, "fine-tuned some of the best, most fuel-efficient cars in the world, and did his part to help America wean itself off foreign oil." And the President pledged, "in the coming months" to "build on that success by setting new standards for our trucks, so we can keep driving down oil imports and what we pay at the pump." The President also called on Congress to do its part "by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to American natural gas." Today, the President laid out additional details for his plan to improve the fuel efficiency of American trucks – bolstering energy security, cutting carbon pollution, and spurring manufacturing innovation.
* Directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) to Set the Next Round of Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles.
* Partnering with Private-Sector Leaders to Deploy Advanced Vehicles
* Expanding Fuel Choices for American Drivers.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/18/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-improving-fuel-efficiency-american-trucks-bol
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/08/09/secretary-lahood-50-billion-fuel-savings-significant-win-trucking-industry
http://www.nhtsa.gov/fuel-economy
http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/cafe/CAFE_2014-18_Trucks_FactSheet-v1.pdf
SBA Young Enrepreneurs
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/youngamericans
http://www.sba.gov/content/young-entrepreneurs
http://www.sba.gov/content/20-questions-before-starting-business
http://www.sba.gov/about-offices-content/2/3159/success-stories/3968
http://www.sba.gov/about-offices-content/2/3101/success-stories/4247
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
http://www.dhs.gov/describe-proceso-de-acci%C3%B3n-diferida-para-los-llegados-en-la-infancia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/15/remarks-president-immigration
Family Unity Immigration Policy Change
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/01/03/2012-31268/provisional-unlawful-presence-waivers-of-inadmissibility-for-certain-immediate-relatives
Issue Guidance for School Districts to Ensure Equal Access for All Children to Public Schools, Regardless of Immigration Status
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-duncan-and-attorney-general-holder-issue-guidance-school-districts-ens
Emergency Supplemental Request to Address the Increase in Child and Adult Migration from Central America in the Rio Grande Valley Areas of the Southwest Border
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/08/fact-sheet-emergency-supplemental-request-address-increase-child-and-adu
Presidential Proclamation -- Armed Forces Day, 2010
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-armed-forces-day-2010
Presidential Proclamation: Peace Officers Memorial Day And Police Week
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-peace-officers-memorial-day-and-police-week
President Obama honours the 2014 National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) TOP COPS award winners:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/12/remarks-president-and-vice-president-honoring-national-association-pol-0
My Brother's Keeper
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/27/presidential-memorandum-creating-and-expanding-ladders-opportunity-boys-
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/my-brothers-keeper
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/MBKTurnsTwo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Brother's_Keeper_Challenge
http://youth.gov/federal-links/my-brothers-keeper-initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/07/21/president-obama-engages-native-youth-my-brother-s-keeper-town-hall
7/26/12 Executive Order — White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/26/executive-order-white-house-initiative-educational-excellence-african-am
2/6/14 White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/whieeaa
2/27/14 Presidential Memorandum — Creating and Expanding Ladders of Opportunity for Boys and Young Men of Color
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/27/presidential-memorandum-creating-and-expanding-ladders-opportunity-boys-
2/27/14 Fact Sheet: My Brother's Keeper Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/27/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-president-obama-launches-my-brother-s-keeper-
2/27/14 FACT SHEET & REPORT: Opportunity for All: My Brother's Keeper Blueprint for Action
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/30/fact-sheet-report-opportunity-all-my-brother-s-keeper-blueprint-action
2/27/14 FACT SHEET: The White House Launches the "My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/30/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-my-brother-s-keeper-community-challenge
3/5/15 My Brother's Keeper Task Force: One-Year Progress Report to the President
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/05/my-brothers-keeper-task-force-one-year-progress-report-president
5/4/15 My Brother's Keeper Alliance – an independent non-profit led by a private-sector entity that helps to expand opportunity for youth, strengthen the American workforce, and fortify the economic stability of communities across America.
http://www.mbkalliance.org/
5/4/15 President Obama delivers remarks on the new My Brother's Keeper Alliance
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/04/remarks-president-launch-my-brothers-keeper-alliance
4/22/16 FACT SHEET: My Brother's Keeper – Two Years of Expanding Opportunity & Creating Pathways for Success
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/22/fact-sheet-my-brothers-keeper-%E2%80%93-two-years-expanding-opportunity-creating
6/8/16 FACT SHEET: New Cities Join My Brother's Keeper Success Mentors Initiative to Combat Chronic Student Absences and Drive School and Life Success
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/08/fact-sheet-new-cities-join-my-brothers-keeper-success-mentors-initiative
Preisdent Obama establishes a Task Force with representatives from across the federal government to issue recommendations aimed at improving the life outcomes of all young people from cradle to college to career.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/27/presidential-memorandum-creating-and-expanding-ladders-opportunity-boys-
Pathways for Youth Employment: Federal Resources for Employers: This resource guide highlights a diverse set of federal resources available to private businesses, non-profits, faith and secular community-based organizations, public agencies, tribes, labor organizations, and academic institutions that offer entry-level opportunities for youth.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/pathways_for_youth_employment_federal_resources_for_employers_feb_2015.pdf
American Apprenticeship Grants: In December 2014, President Obama and Secretary of Labor Tom Perez announced a $100 million American Apprenticeship Grant competition for public-private partnerships, including employer-led and state/regional consortia, to expand registered apprenticeship programs in specific high-growth industries, such as health care, biotechnology, information technology, and advanced manufacturing.
http://www.dol.gov/apprenticeship/grants.htm
Federal Resources Playbook for Registered Apprenticeship: This playbook was released by the U.S. Department of Labor to help employers, educational institutions, training providers, and workforce development professionals leverage more than $50 billion a year in federal funding in support of apprenticeship programs
http://www.doleta.gov/oa/federalresources/playbook.pdf
Champions of Change for Educational Excellence for African Americans
http://blog.ed.gov/2013/03/champions-of-change-for-educational-excellence-for-african-americans/
7/19/13 President Obama: Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/07/19/president-obama-trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me
12/1/14 Building Trust Between Communities and Local Police …
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/12/01/building-trust-between-communities-and-local-police
12/10/14 Excerpts from President Obama's BET Interview on Race Relations, and the Progress We Still Have to Make
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/12/10/excerpts-president-obamas-bet-interview-race-relations-and-progress-we-still-have-ma
5/18/15 10 Cities Making Real Progress Since the Launch of the 21st Century Policing Task Force
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/05/18/10-cities-making-real-progress-launch-21st-century-policing-task-force
6/5/15 Using Data and Technology to Advance Community Policing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/06/05/using-data-and-technology-advance-community-policing
7/11/16 Readout of the President and Vice President's Meeting with Law Enforcement Leaders
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/11/readout-president-and-vice-presidents-meeting-law-enforcement-leaders
7/16/16 Weekly Address: Coming Together to Find Solutions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/16/weekly-address-coming-together-find-solutions
7/17/16 President Obama's Condemnation of the Killing of Baton Rouge Police Officers
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/17/statement-president
7/17/16 President Obama Delivers a Statement on the Killing of Baton Rouge Police Officers
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/17/statement-president-shootings-baton-rouge-louisiana
7/19/16 President Obama's Open Letter to America's Law Enforcement Community
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/07/19/read-president-obamas-open-letter-americas-law-enforcement-community
7/22/16 White House Advancing 21st Century Policing Briefing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/22/remarks-president-drop-21st-century-policing-event
Native Americans
http://www.bia.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc1-022670.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_Policy_of_the_Obama_Administration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/nativeamericans/generation-indigenous
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/nativeamericans
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/american_indians_and_alaska_natives_community_record_0.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/Tribal_Nations_Conference_Final_0.pdf
GreenGov Challenge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/greengov
http://www.fedcenter.gov/joingreengov/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-signs-an-Executive-Order-Focused-on-Federal-Leadership-in-Environmental-Energy-and-Economic-Performance
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ceq/GreenGovsavethedate.pdf
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. As a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama's administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added. Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version of Data.gov.
http://www.data.gov/
http://www.data.gov/food/
http://www.data.gov/cities/
http://www.data.gov/consumer/
http://www.data.gov/geospatial/
http://www.data.gov/research/
http://www.data.gov/datagovnews
JobCorps for Veterans
http://recruiting.jobcorps.gov/en/vets.aspx
Veteran Employment / Hiring Our Heroes
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/03/president-obama-s-plan-put-veterans-back-work
White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/imagefield_thumbs/image_image_file/2009aapi1.eo_.rel_.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/aapi_community_record.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/aapi
Infographic about the AAPI population
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/infographic_1.pdf
Infographic about the Initiative priorities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/infographic_2.pdf
Multimedia presentation about the AAPI story and the Initiative
http://prezi.com/8dl9xe08h7lr/whiaapi-changing-the-world-for-aapis/
Washington, DC, AAPI business leaders briefing and State of the Union conversation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/01/27/empowering-aapis-america-built-last
President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Building the American Mosaic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/american-mosaic_digital.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/01/24/blueprint-america-built-last
The American Job Center
http://jobcenter.usa.gov/
César E. Chávez National Monument
On October 8th, 2012, President Obama travels to Keene, California to announce the establishment of the César E. Chávez National Monument on the property known as Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz (Our Lady Queen of Peace), or La Paz. The President will be joined by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.
http://www.nps.gov/cech/index.htm
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/01/president-obama-establish-c-sar-e-ch-vez-national-monument
President Obama established the America's Great Outdoors Initiative to work with the American people to develop a community-based conservation and recreation agenda for the 21st century. Through this initiative, the Administration is opening up access to millions of acres for recreation, making historic investments in restoring critical landscapes, and supporting an outdoor economy that includes approximately 9 million jobs and $1 trillion in economic activity.
http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/index.cfm
Prioritizing Clean Water. The Administration is taking comprehensive action to ensure the integrity of the waters Americans rely on every day for drinking, swimming, and fishing, and that support farming, recreation, tourism and economic growth. We have issued draft Federal guidance to clarify which waters are protected by the Clean Water Act nationwide; launched innovative partnerships and programs to improve water quality and water efficiency; and created initiatives to revitalize communities and economies by restoring rivers and critical watersheds. The Administration has also proposed to modernize the guidelines that govern Federal water resource planning, calling for water resources projects based on sound science, improved transparency, and consideration of the variety of community benefits of projects.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/clean-water
Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Coal Mining. Through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by EPA, the Department of the Interior and the Army Corps of Engineers on June 11, 2009, Federal agencies are taking action to minimize adverse environmental and health impacts of mountaintop coal mining.
http://www.epa.gov/wetlands/pdf/Final_MTM_MOU_6-11-09.pdf
Restoring the Gulf of Mexico
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/gulfcoast
Restoring California's Bay Delta
http://www.doi.gov/documents/CAWaterWorkPlan.pdf
Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/05/13/restoring-chesapeake-bay
Great Lakes Restoration
http://greatlakesrestoration.us/
Everglades Restoration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/everglades_report__13_july_2012.pdf
Working Toward Environmental Justice. The Obama Administration is committed to ensuring that communities overburdened by pollution – particularly minority, low-income and indigenous communities – have the opportunity to enjoy the health and economic benefits of a clean environment. After more than a decade of inaction, the Administration reconvened the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group and engaged more than 100 environmental justice leaders at a White House forum. Federal agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding formally committing to environmental justice, and released strategies for integrating environmental justice into federal decision-making and programs in areas such as transportation, labor, health services, housing and others.
http://epa.gov/environmentaljustice/resources/publications/interagency/ej-mou-2011-08.pdf
Supporting Sustainable Communities. The Administration created the historic Partnership for Sustainable Communities to break down traditional silos among the Federal agencies for housing, transportation, and environmental protection. Through 2011, this partnership announced more than $1.7 billion in funding to support resilient economies, healthy environments and quality of life in more than 550 communities and regions across the country.
https://www.sustainablecommunities.gov/sites/sustainablecommunities.gov/files/docs/PAR_case_studies_montgomery_al.pdf
http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=P100EOWS.TXT
Making important federal employee benefits, including healthcare and retirement benefits, available to eligible married gay and lesbian couples and their families.
http://www.chcoc.gov/transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalID=5700
The Most LGBT-Friendly President Ever Standing With Us On Marriage Equality, ENDA & Opposing DOMA
http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/obama-administration-policy-and-legislative-advancements-on-behalf-of-lgbt
Because President Obama took action to stem the tide of imported Chinese tires, flooding the U.S. market, moms and dads are bringing home paychecks from tire factories in North Carolina and Arkansas.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/proclamation-address-market-disruption-imports-certain-passenger-vehicle-and-light-
Because USTR successfully challenged Chinese industrial policy, that pushed American auto parts suppliers to move production facilities offshore, men and women in Ohio and Michigan are still working on assembly lines.
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/june/united-states-files-wto-case-against-china-over-expor
And because we took the European Union to court and won, the jobs of thousands of U.S. aerospace engineers and electricians in Washington State, Kansas, and South Carolina are more secure. And more American workers, from welders to widget-makers, will have a chance at future jobs on a more level playing field.
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2010/june/united-states-achieves-landmark-victory-wto-airbus-ca
Trade Enforcement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/07/30/tough-trade-enforcement-supports-jobs-american-workers
National Debt
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/infographics/us-national-debt
Reform and fiscal responsibility
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy/reform
- The Campaign to Cut Waste is hunting down and eliminating misspent tax dollars in every agency and department across the federal government. Already, the Administration has identified $3 billion in information technology cost reductions, is shutting down hundreds of duplicative data centers, and getting rid of excess federal real estate. Learn more
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/13/white-house-launches-campaign-cut-waste-vice-president-take-making-gover
- For the first time in 13 years, the federal government decreased contract spending. In 2010, contract spending was $80 billion less than it would have been, had it continued to grow at the same rate as it did under the Bush Administration. Learn more
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/02/04/turning-tide-contract-spending
- In the 2012 Budget, the President proposed 211 terminations, reductions and savings measures which will save more than $33 billion in 2012 and $400 billion over the next decade. Learn more (PDF)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/agijuneupdate.pdf
- President Obama's directive to the federal government to use common-sense and buy office supplies in bulk should save us up to $200 million over the next four years. Learn more (PDF)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/agijuneupdate.pdf
- Federal agencies are using the latest technology to combat fraud and slash erroneous payments and have made significant strides, tripling the amount of improper payments to contractors recaptured last year
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/06/17/campaign-cut-waste-fighting-fraud-and-slashing-errors. Learn more
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included broad support for urban communities.
* To broaden access to affordable housing, the Act provides for $1 billion in increased funding for the Community Development Block Grant; $4 billion in increased public housing capital funds; $2 billion in payments to owners of project based rental assistance properties to keep them affordable; $2 billion in Neighborhood Stabilization Funds to purchase and rehabilitate forclosed homes; and $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes;
* To expand educational opportunity for low-income students, the Act provides for $13 billion in Title I funds to go to K-12 education in disadvantaged school systems;
* To strengthen workforce development, the Act provides $3.95 billion in increased workforce investment training dollars to keep our workers skilled and to employ young people during the summer;
* To improve energy efficiency, the Act increases the Weatherization Assistance Program by $5 billion, helping low income consumers save on their energy bills while simultaneously training more workers for a growing field;
* To bolster our nation's transportation infrastructure, the Act provides $1.5 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Transportation to fund projects of regional or national significance as well as $8 billion to jumpstart high speed rail and connect regions to one another; and,
* The Act also provides $4.7 billion to provide broadband access to underserved areas.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/oua/blog
http://apps.usa.gov/pdr-edge-app.shtml
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a federal statute that was signed into United States law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. This Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (signed into law on March 30, 2010) made up the health care reform of 2010. The laws focus on reform of the private health insurance market, provide better coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, improve prescription drug coverage in Medicare and extend the life of the Medicare Trust fund by at least 12 years.
Many seniors are struggling in the face of the economic downturn, having seen their savings fall, and we acted quickly to help providerelief. The Recovery Act provided a one-time payment of $250 to retirees, other Social Security beneficiaries, disabled veterans, and SSI recipients. Fifty-six million retirees and other individuals received this one-time payment, totaling $14 billion. In light of continued economic hardship for too many seniors, the President has called for Congress to enact another $250 Economic Recovery Payment to our seniors this year, as well as to veterans and people with disabilities.
http://www.recovery.gov/
Response To The Deepwater BP Oil Spill
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/05/05/ongoing-administration-wide-response-deepwater-bp-oil-spill
Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration [Executive Order]
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/10/executive-order-gulf-coast-ecosystem-restoration
Feds Feed Families
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/06/08/feds-feed-families-2010-kick
United We Serve: Let's Read, Let's Move
http://serve.gov/lrlm.asp
White House and Commerce Department Co-Sponsor Regional Fatherhood Forum with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/03/12/white-house-and-commerce-department-co-sponsor-regional-fatherhood-forum-with-commer
White House and Veterans Affairs Host Fatherhood Forum on Military and Veteran Fathers and Families
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/03/29/white-house-and-veterans-affairs-host-fatherhood-forum-military-and-veteran-fathers-
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Michelle Obama
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-first-lady-camp-pendleton-community
First Lady Visits Fisher House Families, Wounded Warriors
http://archive.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=119587
Lc Michelle Obama (C trianaei x Lc Mini Purple)
http://www.chadwickorchids.com/node/79
Michelle Obama 1,400-year-old Olive Tree, Salento, Italy
http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/obama-awarded-olive-tree/26656
Michelle Obama Elementary School, Panorama City, CA
http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/sd/details.asp?cds=19647330126441&Public=Y
White House 2011 Vegetable Garden. On March 20, 2009 First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground on the largest and most expansive vegetable garden to date on the White House lawn. On April 9, 2009 First Lady Michelle Obama was joined by local school children to plant the seeds for the White House vegetable garden. This L- shaped 1,100-square-foot (100 m2) garden is located by the mansion's tennis courts and can be seen from E street. The plot will provide more than 55 varieties of vegetables along with fruits that will be incorporated in the meals made for the Obama family as well as invited guests. Another portion of the yields will be donated to the local soup kitchen and the Food Bank Organization. September 30, 2009 First Lady Michelle Obama was presented with a commendation by the American Public Gardens Association (APGA), for planting the White House Kitchen Garden.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/03/20/spring-gardening
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/flotus-remarks-garden-planting-event
2015 The White House Kitchen Garden Harvest Event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/03/remarks-first-lady-white-house-kitchen-garden-harvest-event
2014 Pollinator Garden
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/02/remarks-first-lady-sixth-annual-kitchen-garden-planting
Martin Luther King, Jr. Dedication
http://www.mlkmemorial.org/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/16/remarks-president-martin-luther-king-jr-memorial-dedication
The Department of Justice filed a statement of interest today arguing that making it a crime for people who are homeless to sleep in public places, when there is insufficient shelter space in a city, unconstitutionally punishes them for being homeless. The statement of interest was filed in federal district court in Idaho in Bell v. City of Boise et al., a case brought by homeless plaintiffs who were convicted under Boise ordinances that criminalize sleeping or camping in public. As stated by the Justice Department in its filing, "[i]t should be uncontroversial that punishing conduct that is a universal and unavoidable consequence of being human violates the Eighth Amendment. . . Sleeping is a life-sustaining activity—i.e., it must occur at some time in some place. If a person literally has nowhere else to go, then enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance against that person criminalizes her for being homeless."
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-brief-address-criminalization-homelessness
https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/resources-for-homeless-persons/
https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/resources-for-homeless-youth/
https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/resources-for-homeless-veterans/
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/rental_assistance
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/avoiding_foreclosure
Federal Communications Commission approved a $4.5 billion broadband Internet fundhttp://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db1027/DOC-310695A2.txt
Economic Opportunity: Expanding Broadband Deployment
http://www.broadband.gov/issues/economic-opportunity.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/23/presidential-memorandum-expanding-broadband-deployment-and-adoption-addr
ConnectED FACT SHEET
http://www.broadband.gov/issues/education.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/04/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-answering-president-s-call-enrich-american-ed
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-connectall-initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/15/fact-sheet-administration-announces-advanced-wireless-research
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is the premier economic organization in the Asia-Pacific region. Established in 1989 by 12 economies, including the United States, APEC fosters growth and prosperity by facilitating economic cooperation and expanding trade and investment throughout the region.APEC's 21 member economies today account for 55 percent of global GDP, purchase 58 percent of U.S. goods exports, and comprise a market of 2.7 billion consumers. Seven of America's top 15 trade partners are in APEC. President Obama chose his birthplace of Honolulu as the site for the APEC 2011 Leaders' Meeting to highlight America's position as a Pacific nation. "Few forums are watched more closely by those in the business community then APEC, testimony to the extraordinary opportunity it represents to both sides of the Pacific Rim. APEC accounts for 55% of the global GDP and is growing faster then the global average, significantly faster. It represents 2.7 billion consumers and purchases 58% of US exports."…."Unlocking the growth potential that exists within APEC is a huge opportunity for job creation here in the United States and for our economic partners."
http://www.apec2011hawaii.com/
President Obama attended the Sixth Annual East Asia Summit in Bali Indonesia.
November 19th, the 6th East Asia Summit was attended by leaders of ASEAN, and those of Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Russia and the USA.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/10/remarks-president-university-indonesia-jakarta-indonesia
Establishment of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Advisory Committees
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/08/executive-order-13565-establishment-intellectual-property-enforcement-ad
Executive Order 13567–Periodic Review of Individuals Detained at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station Pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/07/executive-order-13567-periodic-review-individuals-detained-guant-namo-ba
Executive Order 13568–Extending Provisions of the International Organization Immunities Act
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/08/executive-order-13568-extending-provisions-international-organization-im
Executive Order 13573–Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the Government of Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/29/executive-order-13572-blocking-property-certain-persons-respect-human-ri
Executive Order 13577–SelectUSA Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/15/executive-order-13577-selectusa-initiative
2011 National Women's Law Center's Annual Awards dinner
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/09/remarks-president-national-womens-law-centers-annual-awards-dinner
From The Farm To First Table
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/09/18/farm-first-table
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/first-lady-picks-up-eggs-chocolate-milk-and-vegetables/
Let's Move!
http://www.letsmove.gov/
On June 2, First Lady Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin unveiled a new food icon that will serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. The 2010 White House Child Obesity Task Force called for simple, actionable advice to equip consumers with information to help them make healthy food choices. As a result, the USDA has a new website called MyPlate.gov that can help to:
http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
http://www.myfoodapedia.gov/
On February 9, 2012, First Lady Michelle Obama will kick off a three day, nation-wide tour celebrating the second anniversary of Let's Move!, her initiative to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. Since launching Let's Move! on February 9, 2010, significant progress has been made to solve the problem of childhood obesity. Parents, businesses, educators, elected officials, members of the military, chefs, physicians, athletes, childcare providers, community and faith leaders and kids themselves have made substantial commitments to improve the health of our nation's children. Through working together with Let's Move!, these groups have provided children with healthier food and greater opportunities for physical activity in schools and communities, helped get families the information they need to make healthier decisions, supported a healthy start in early childhood, and have worked to ensure more people have access to healthy, affordable food. The Let's Move! tour will highlight examples of people making changes across the country, from a single family to an entire state. A fact sheet on a few of the many accomplishments of Let's Move! is attached and can be found HERE.
http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2012/02/03/let%E2%80%99s-move-two-years-healthy-changes-our-nation%E2%80%99s-kids
http://www.twitter.com/letsmove
Let's Move! Active Schools
http://www.letsmove.gov/active-schools
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/28/first-lady-michelle-obama-announces-unprecedented-collaboration-bring-ph
http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2013/09/07/first-lady-michelle-obama-shaquille-o%E2%80%99neal-allyson-felix-and-dominique-dawes-kick-sc
First Lady Michelle Obama's African Travel 2011
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/youngafrica
First Lady Michelle Obama announced the "Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/04/remarks-first-lady-announcing-mayors-challenge-end-veterans-homelessness
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/veteran_information/mayors_challenge/mayors_and_staff
http://usich.gov/media_center/videos_and_webinars/beyond_vash_ending_veteran_homelessness
http://usich.gov/media_center/videos_and_webinars/placement_and_retention
http://usich.gov/media_center/videos_and_webinars/opening-doors-to-innovation-building-strong-connections-to-rapidly-house-ve
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv/vash
http://nchv.org/index.php/coalitioncall/full_artical/2015_nchv_awards_-_jerald_washington_memorial_founders_award_presented_to_f/
White House Fall Garden Harvest 2011. Wednesday October 5th, First Lady Michelle Obama will host local students at the White House for the 2011 Fall Garden Harvest. The Garden Harvest will also mark the first ever Let's Move! Tweetup, an opportunity for @LetsMove followers on Twitter to come to the White House to watch the garden harvest, meet the White House chefs, tour the kitchen garden and engage in a conversation on the First Lady's initiative to end childhood obesity.
http://www.letsmove.gov/learn-facts/epidemic-childhood-obesity
http://www.letsmove.gov/eat-healthy
http://www.letsmove.gov/join-us
Attended the Whitney M. Young Magnet School where she was was a member of the National Honor Society, served as student council treasurer and graduated from high school in 1981 as salutatorian
Graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's in sociology and a minor in African-American studies from Princeton University
Earned a degree in 1988 from Harvard Law School
Worked at the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin
In the early 1990s she decided to leave the corporate law world to work in the mayor's office and then in the city's office of planning and development
In 1993 became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago, an AmeriCorps national service program that provided training to young adults pursuing careers in the public sector
In 1996, she had a position with the University of Chicago
Served as a salaried board member of TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
In 2005 she was a vice president at the University Medical Center
Serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
On January 20, 2009 she became The First Lady of the United States of America
As First Lady she has volunteered homeless shelters and food banks
As FLOTUS she has advocated for public service
As FLOTUS she has advocated on behalf of military families
As FLOTUS she has supported the organic movement
As FLOTUS she has promoted the benefits of education
As FLOTUS she has an initiative to reversing the 21st century trend of childhood obesity with a program named "Let's Move!"
As FLOTUS she has an initiative to help working women balance career and family
As FLOTUS she has promoted the arts and arts education
CSPAN First Ladies Video Series Special: Michelle Obama
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REBUILDING MIDDLE CLASS SECURITY
* Putting Americans Back to Work
* The Middle Class Bargain
* Cutting Waste, Reducing the Deficit, Asking All to Pay Their Fair Share
* Economy Built to Last
AMERICA WORKS WHEN EVERYONE PLAYS BY THE SAME RULES
* Wall Street Reform
* 21st Century Government: Transparent and Accountable
* Lobbying Reform and Campaign Finance Reform
GREATER TOGETHER
* Strengthening the American Community
* Protecting Rights and Freedoms
* Ensuring Safety and Quality of Life
* Pro-Same Sex Marriage
STRONGER IN THE WORLD, SAFER AND MORE SECURE AT HOME
* Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq
* Disrupting, Dismantling, and Defeating Al-Qaeda
* Responsibly Ending the War in Afghanistan
* Preventing the Spread and Use of Nuclear Weapons
* Countering Emerging Threats
* Strengthening Alliances, Expanding Partnerships, and Reinvigorating International Institutions
* Promoting Global Prosperity and Development
* Maintaining the Strongest Military in the World
* Advancing Universal Values
Agriculture, climate, consumers, education, energy, finance, geospatial, global development, health, jobs & skills, public safety, science and research, weather, business, cities, counties, ethics, law, manufactouring, ocean, states
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"The United States supports a set of universal rights. And these rights include free speech, the freedom of peaceful assembly, the freedom of religion, equality for men and women under the rule of law, and the right to choose your own leaders -– whether you live in Baghdad or Damascus, Sanaa or Tehran.
And we support political and economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa that can meet the legitimate aspirations of ordinary people throughout the region."
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PPACA
- February 24, 2009
President Obama Promises Health Care Reform in His first Address to a Joint Session of Congress. But this is America. We don't do what's easy. We do what is necessary to move this country forward. For that same reason, we must also address the crushing cost of health care." — President Barack Obama
- March 23, 2010
President Obama Signs the Affordable Care Act, an Historic Overhaul of the American Health Care System. "That our generation is able to succeed in passing this reform is a testament to the persistence –- and the character -– of the American people, who championed this cause; who mobilized; who organized; who believed that people who love this country can change it."
— President Barack Obama
- June 10, 2010
Seniors See the First Benefit of the Affordable Care Act as $250 Rebate Checks Are Sent.
The first $250 rebate checks are sent to seniors who fall into Medicare's "donut hole" and have to pay all their own drug costs. In the first year of health reform, nearly four million people on Medicare got help with prescription drug costs.
- June 22, 2010
President Obama announced new interim final regulations, the Patient's Bill of Rights, that include a set of protections that apply to health coverage starting on or after September 23, 2010,sixmonthsafterthe enactment of the Affordable Care Act. The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury collaborated on the Patient's Bill of Rights – which will help children (and eventually all Americans) with pre-existing conditions gain coverage and keep it, protect all Americans' choice of doctors, and end lifetime limits on the care consumers may receive. These new protections create an important foundation of patients' rights in the private health insurance market that puts Americans in charge of their own health.
- July 1, 2010
Now Uninsured Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Have Access to Coverage. A temporary health insurance program that makes health coverage available and more affordable for high-risk individuals who are uninsured and have been denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition launches. Gail O'Brien was the first New Hampshire resident to benefit from this new program.
Patients Can Now Take Advantage of Their First New Set of Protections
- New private insurance plans must offer free preventive services without charging a deductible or co-pay.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/rights/preventive-care/index.html
- Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage to a customer because of a paperwork error or unintentional mistake
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/rights/cancellations/index.html
- Consumers now have two ways to appeal insurance company's coverage decisions or claims: through their insurer or through an independent decision-maker.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/rights/appealing-decisions/index.html
- Insurance companies can no longer set lifetime limits on key benefits, such as hospital stays.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/costs/limits/index.html
- Insurance company's ability to set annual dollar limits on coverage for individual and group plans are restricted.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/costs/limits/index.html
- Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for children with pre-existing conditions.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/rights/childrens-pre-existing-conditions/index.html
- Health Resources and Services Administration app Find a Health Center
http://apps.usa.gov/find-a-health-center.shtml
- http://www.healthcare.gov/using-insurance/low-cost-care/community-health-centers/index.html
- Coverage for young adults: 3.1 million young adults who were uninsured have gained coverage by being able to stay on their parent's health plan, giving their families peace of mind.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/choices/young-adult-coverage/index.html
- Access to free preventive services: 54 million additional Americans now receive coverage through their private health insurance plan for many preventive services without cost sharing such as copays or deductibles. That means that more Americans will receive wellness visits, cancer screenings and other services that will help them get and stay healthy. Women can now get coverage— without cost-sharing—of even more preventive services they need. Approximately 47 million women now have guaranteed access to additional preventive services without cost-sharing for policies renewing on or after August 1, 2012.
http://www.healthcare.gov/prevention/index.html
http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/08/womensprevention08012011a.html
- Coverage for people with pre-existing conditions: 86,000 Americans with pre-existing conditions have gained coverage through the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan. This temporary program makes health coverage available and more affordable for individuals who are uninsured and have been denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/choices/pre-existing-condition-insurance-plan/index.html
- Centers: Community Health Centers improve the health of the nation and assure access to quality primary health care services at more than 8,500 service delivery sites around the country. Since the beginning of 2009, health centers have increased the total number of patients served on an annual basis by 3.1 million
http://www.healthcare.gov/using-insurance/low-cost-care/community-health-centers/index.html
World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12)
https://www.fcc.gov/general/world-conference-international-telecommunications-wcit-12
http://www.fcc.gov/document/statement-fcc-chairman-genachowski-us-input-itu-wcit
http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/othr/telecom/196028.htm
http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/othr/telecom/196031.htm
http://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-genachowski-second-us-contribution-wcit
http://www.fcc.gov/document/chairmans-statement-formation-us-delegation-wcit
HumanRights.gov is the official United States Government (USG) website for human rights related information. The site's search function links users directly with news, reports and explanatory information from the State Department, USG agencies and other resources, allowing for easy access to publicly available documents. We provide a one-stop site for researching the USG's involvement in human rights.
http://www.humanrights.gov/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/04/11/announcing-humanrightsgov
Celebrate on a Budget
The holidays can be expensive, but you don't have to break the bank to celebrate. Take a few minutes to decide how much you can afford to spend on gifts, travel, parties, decorations, and other holiday expenses. Once you've created a spending plan, keep track of your purchases.
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/blog/plan-your-spending-to-avoid-holiday-debt/
Get Through the Holiday Blues. The holidays aren't joyous for everyone. This time of year can bring stress and feelings of loneliness. Exercise, focusing on positive relationships, and doing things that you find rewarding can help with depression. Get tips on what to do if you feel depressed. Keep in mind that winter depression could be a sign of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which is caused by the lack of sunlight. Treatment for SAD is much like other forms of depression, but may also involve light therapy.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression/how-can-i-help-myself-if-i-am-depressed.shtml
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002499/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bereavement.html#cat1 [Diagnosis/Symptoms]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bereavement.html#cat5 [Children]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bereavement.html#cat8 [Teenagers]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bereavement.html#cat24 [Seniors]
http://www.samhsa.gov/MentalHealth/Anxiety_Grief.pdf
Community Renewal: Supporting a Local Food Bank
http://www.serve.gov/toolkits/food-bank/index.asp
http://feedingamerica.org/
http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx
Immigration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/29/fact-sheet-fixing-our-broken-immigration-system-so-everyone-plays-rules
1) Continuing to Strengthen Border Security.
- Strengthen border security and infrastructure
- Combat transnational crime
- Improve partnerships with border communities and law enforcement
- Crack down on criminal networks engaging in passport and visa fraud and human smuggling
- Streamline removal of nonimmigrant national security and public safety threats
- Improve our nation's immigration courts
2) Cracking Down on Employers Hiring Undocumented Workers
- Improve our nation's immigration courts
- Combat fraud and identity theft
- Protections for all workers
3) Pathway to Earned Citizenship
- Create a provisional legal status
- Create strict requirements to qualify for lawful permanent resident status
- Earned citizenship for DREAMers
- Create administrative and judicial review
- Provide new resources to combat fraud
4) Streamlining Legal Immigration
- Keep Families Together
- Cut Red Tape for Employers
- Enhance travel and tourism
- "Staple" green cards to advanced STEM diplomas
- Create a "startup visa" for job-creating entrepreneurs
- Expand opportunities for investor visas and U.S. economic development
- Create a new visa category for employees of federal national security science and technology laboratories
- Better addresses humanitarian concerns
- Encourage integration
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A Better Bargain for the Middle Class: Jobs
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/30/fact-sheet-better-bargain-middle-class-jobs
FACT SHEET
One of the cornerstones of the President's plan to create a better bargain for the middle class is to ensure that every American who is willing to work for it will have the opportunity for a good job that pays good wages. In today's speech, the President laid out an idea that both parties should be able to support to create jobs: a plan that simplifies the tax code for our businesses and gives working families a better deal.
Our current tax code is broken and too complex, with businesses that play by the rules paying a 35% tax rate while many corporations that can hire hundreds of lawyers pay virtually no taxes at all. That is why the President has called for a revenue-neutral simplification of our business tax code to eliminate loopholes that encourage companies to ship jobs overseas and establishes a top tax rate of 28%. Under the President's proposal, some businesses would pay less, some corporations would pay more, but everyone would pay their fair share. But if we're going to give businesses a better deal, we should give the people who work there a better deal too. Today, the President is calling for a pro-growth tax reform and jobs package that would be fully offset using one-time revenues raised as we transition to a new business tax system. The transition revenue would support much-needed investments such as modernizing our infrastructure; creating new manufacturing hubs; and training our workers with the skills they need for the jobs of today and tomorrow. At the same time, President Obama remains committed to pursuing a long-term deficit reduction deal that includes revenue-raising individual tax reform and a balanced approach to replacing the damaging sequester.
The bottom line is that the President will work with Republicans on a package to simplify our business tax code so long as it includes real investments to help restore middle class security, create jobs and grow the economy.
Summary of the Pro-Growth Tax Reform and Jobs Package
Simplify the Tax Code for Businesses to Create Jobs and Economic Growth: The President has put forward a framework for simplifying the corporate tax code to encourage job creation here at home – without adding a dime to the deficit:
* Eliminating Loopholes While Lowering the Top Rate to No Higher than 28%
* Simplifying Tax Filing and Increasing Incentives to Invest for Small Businesses
* A Manufacturing Tax Rate No Higher Than 25%
* Removing Incentives to Locate Overseas
A Broader Package to Support Middle Class Jobs: The President believes we can design a broader growth and jobs package without adding a penny to the deficit by, for example, using one-time funds raised as we transition to a new tax system to support investments like:
Rebuilding American Infrastructure:
* Immediate Infrastructure Investments With a "Fix It First" Focus
* A "Rebuild America Partnership" to Leverage Private Sector Funds
* "America Fast Forward" Bonds – Including for Modernized Schools
* Creating 45 New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes Over 10 Years
* nvesting in Community Colleges to Train Workers for Jobs of the Future
New Executive Actions on Jobs: In addition to the package above, President Obama announced new executive actions to support jobs:
* Building A Competitive Edge for Foreign Investment Through An Expanded SelectUSA
* Call to Action on Public-Private Efforts to Get the Long-Term Unemployed Back to Work
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Responses to Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013
March 18, 2014
US orders the Syrian government to suspend all of its diplomatic operations in United States
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/03/223621.htm
January 22, 2014
International Peace Conference in Geneva, Switzerland
Learn more from the White House on the Assad regime's treatment of the Syrian people
October 31, 2013
Syria Destroys Chemical Weapon-Making Equipment
October 15-16, 2013
The P5+1 , five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, namely United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom,France and Germany meet in Geneva to acheive diplomatic agreements with Iran on its nuclear program.
October 7, 2013
UN chief outlines chemical weapons plan for Syria
September 27, 2013
U.N. Security Council Approves Syria Resolution
September 24, 2013
FACT SHEET: U.S. Humanitarian Assistance in Response to the Syrian Crisis
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/24/fact-sheet-us-humanitarian-assistance-response-syrian-crisis
September 16, 2013
UN: 'Convincing evidence' chemical weapons used in Syria
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45856&Cr=syria&Cr1=#.UjdLxhbv0aU
September 14, 2013
Statement by the President on U.S.-Russian Agreement on Framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/14/statement-president-us-russian-agreement-framework-elimination-syrian-ch
September 12, 2013
Secretary of State Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov spoke to reporters in Geneva
http://www.c-span.org/Events/US-and-Russia-Discuss-Syrias-Chemical-Weapons/10737441264-19/
September 11, 2013
UN confirms Syria's Assad signed chemical weapons decree
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/11/syria-political-stalematelooms.html
September 10, 2013
9:00 PM ET
President Obama Addresses the Nation on Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/remarks-president-address-nation-syria
September 10, 2013
Statement on Additional Countries in Support of September 6 Joint Statement on Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/statement-additional-countries-support-september-6-joint-statement-syria
September 10, 2013
President Obama agrees to U.N. talks on Russia's Syria plan
September 10, 2013
Readout of the President's Calls with French President Hollande and British Prime Minister Cameron
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/readout-president-s-calls-french-president-hollande-and-british-prime-mi
September 10, 2013
7:30 AM ET
Syria accepts Russian chemical weapons proposal – per Interfax
September 10, 2013
10:00 AM ET
US House Armed Services Committee – Authorizing Force in Syria – State Secretary Kerry, Defense Secretary Hagel & General Dempsey testify
September 09, 2013
Readout of the President's Call with Prime Minister Harper of Canada
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/09/readout-president-s-call-prime-minister-harper-canada
September 9, 2013
2:50 PM ET
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backs Obama on Syria action
September 9, 2013
1:15 PM ET
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Deputy National Security Adviser briefs the press
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/224126
September 9, 2013
12:30 PM ET
National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Syria at New America Foundation
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/224066
September 9, 2013
11:30 AM ET
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Press Conference
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/224134
September 9, 2013
7:00 AM ET
Secretary of State Kerry on Syria
September 9, 2013
Statement on Additional Countries in Support of September 6 Joint Statement on Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/09/statement-additional-countries-support-september-6-joint-statement-syria
September 7, 2013
David Petraeus calls on Congress to back White House on Syria
September 7, 2013
President Obama's Address: Calling for Limited Military Action in Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/07/weekly-address-calling-limited-military-action-syria
September 6, 2013
The Leaders and Representatives of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America's Joint Statement on Syria
Group of 20 Nations Leader's Meeting, Saint Petersburg, Russia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/06/joint-statement-syria
September 6, 2013
US Ambassador Power on Syria at the Center for American Progress
http://www.humanrights.gov/2013/09/06/ambassador-power-on-syria-at-the-center-for-american-progress/
September 6, 2013
Madeleine Albright pushes Congress in support of Syria resolution
September 5, 2013
At G20 summit, Ban, UN-Arab League Envoy push for political solution to Syria crisis
September 3, 2013
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton breaks silence to endorse Syria strikes
September 3, 2013
Secretary of Defense Hagel Statement on Syria
http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1802
September 3, 2013
Secretary of State John Kerry Statement on Syria
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/09/212603.htm
September 3, 2013
Congressional leaders back Obama on Syria strike
September 3, 2013
President Obama and Vice President Biden meet with top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, House Foreign Affairs Committee, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Armed Services Committee
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/03/remarks-president-meeting-members-congress-situation-syria
August 31, 2013
U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons
http://www.c-span.org/uploadedFiles/Content/Documents/USGassessmentonSyria(1).pdf
August 31, 2013
Statement by the President on Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/31/statement-president-syria
August 30, 2013
Readout of the President's Phone Call with President Hollande of France
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/readout-president-s-phone-call-president-hollande-france
August 30, 2013
President Obama Discusses Report on Syria's Chemical Weapons Use
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/remarks-president-obama-and-presidents-estonia-lithuania-and-latvia
August 30, 2013
President Obama met with his National Security Council Regarding the Reported Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
August 30, 2013
Secretary of State John Kerry Statement on Syria
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/08/213668.htm
August 29, 2013
Readout of Briefing for Congressional Leaders on the Assad Regime's Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/29/readout-briefing-congressional-leaders-assad-regime-s-use-chemical-weapo
August 29, 2013
Readout of the President's Phone Call with Chancellor Merkel
August 28, 2013
NATO Secretary General Statement on North Atlantic Council Meeting on Syria
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_102590.htm?selectedLocale=en
August 27, 2013
Readout of Vice President Biden's Call with Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Nick Clegg
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/27/readout-vice-president-biden-s-call-deputy-prime-minister-united-kingdom
August 27, 2013
Readout of the President's Call with Prime Minister Harper of Canada
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/27/readout-president-s-call-prime-minister-harper-canada
August 27, 2013
Readout of the President's Call with Prime Minister Rudd of Australia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/27/readout-president-s-call-prime-minister-rudd-australia
August 26, 2013
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Remarks on Syria
http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp?statID=1944#.Uiu5Uhbv0aU
August 26, 2013
Secretary of State John Kerry Statement on Syria
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/08/213503.htm
August 25, 2013
Readout of the President's Phone Call with President Hollande of France
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/25/readout-president-s-phone-call-president-hollande-france
August 24, 2013
Readout of the President's Meeting with the National Security Council Regarding the Reported Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/24/readout-president-s-meeting-national-security-council-regarding-reported
August 24, 2013
Readout of the President's Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the UK
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/27/readout-president-s-call-prime-minister-cameron-uk
August 24, 2013
President Obama met with his National Security Council Regarding the Reported Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
August 21, 2013
Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/21/statement-principal-deputy-press-secretary-josh-earnest-allegations-chem
June 30, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary R Clinton Press Availability Following the Meeting of the Action Group on Syria
Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/06/194328.htm
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U.S. Mint-Produced Congressional Gold Medal Posthumously Awarded to the Victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.113hr360
http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/U.S.-Mint-Produced-Congressional-Gold-Medal-Posthumously-Awarded-to-the-Victims-of-the-16th-Street-Baptist-Church-Bombing-.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
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The Five Year Anniversary of the Financial Crisis: A Look Back at the Progress We've Made
Amy Brundage September 15, 2013 09:41 PM EDT
Five years ago this week, a financial crisis unlike any in generations rocked Wall Street, turning a recession that was already hammering Main Street into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In the months before President Obama took office, the economy was shrinking at a rate of over 8%, businesses were shedding 800,000 jobs a month, lending to families and small businesses dried up, and the American auto industry was on the brink of collapse.
Upon taking office, Obama acted with unprecedented speed to respond to the crisis and its impact on American families – taking actions to stabilize the financial system, rescue the auto industry, and boost the economy by providing tax relief to working families and keeping teachers and first responders on the job. Within six months, he had signed the Recovery Act into law, announced a framework for a new financial stability plan and implemented its key elements, and taken action to support GM and Chrysler while requiring the companies to retool. Now, on the five-year anniversary of the crisis, the Administration has prepared a report that describes 15 key elements of the response to the financial crisis and where we find ourselves today.
For example, it shows that:
· Contrary to Initial Expectations, the Response to the Financial Crisis Is Expected to Yield A Return to the Taxpayer
· Treasury Has More Than Recovered Its Investments in Banks and AIG
· The Stress Tests – A Signature Element of the Response – Has Built Confidence in the Banking System Without Putting New Taxpayer Funds at Risk
· The Auto Industry Is Recovering
· The Housing Market Is Coming Back
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/09/15/five-year-anniversary-financial-crisis
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President Obama's UN Civil Society Roundtable discussion
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/09/21/stand-civil-society-president-obama-host-forum-un-general-assembly
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/23/remarks-president-obama-civil-society-roundtable
President Obama's Executive Action to Spur Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Revitalize American Manufacturing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-pen-and-phone-actions-spur-inno
National Network for Manufacturing Innovation
http://manufacturing.gov/docs/NNMI_prelim_design.pdf
Presidential Memorandum — Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees. President Obama established a White House Task Force on New Americans, an interagency effort to identify and support State and local efforts at integration that are working and to consider how to expand and replicate successful models. The Task Force, which will engage with community, business, and faith leaders, as well as State and local elected officials, will help determine additional steps the Federal Government can take to ensure its programs and policies are serving diverse communities that include new Americans.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/21/presidential-memorandum-creating-welcoming-communities-and-fully-integra
Presidential Memorandum — Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immigrant Visa System for the 21st Century
President Obama ordered a modernization and streamling of the U.S. immigration system
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/21/presidential-memorandum-modernizing-and-streamlining-us-immigrant-visa-s
Department of Homeland Security Fixing Our Broken Immigration System Through Executive Action – Key Facts
http://www.dhs.gov/immigration-action?utm_source=hp_feature&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=dhs_hp
The Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA)
http://www.ihs.gov/ihcia/documents/home/USCode_Title25_Chapter%2018.pdf
Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 signed into effect by President Obama (D) that expands the punitive abilities of tribal courts across the nation. The law allows tribal courts operating in Indian country to increase jail sentences handed down in criminal cases. This was a major step toward improving enforcement and justice in Indian country. Before this law, tribal courts were limited in the scope of punishment they could hand down in criminal cases, giving them the impression of a lower, less serious court. They now possess the power under the Tribal Law and Order Act to pass increased sentences in order to incarcerate defendants longer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_Law_and_Order_Act_of_2010
President Obama (D) signed into law the Claims Resolution Act which includes the Cobell, Keepseagle, and other settlement agreements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_Resolution_Act_of_2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobell_v._Salazar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Pires#The_Keepseagle_Case
Dec 16 President Obama (D) endorses the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2010 White House Tribal Nations Conference
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/women/president-obama-endorses-the-un-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/
2010 White House Tribal Nations Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/12/16/remarks-president-white-house-tribal-nations-conference
2011 – Jul 5 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act rule 10.11 moderated requirements for cultural affiliation causing museums to consult with tribes that request the repatriation of culturally unidentifiable human remains.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-05/pdf/2011-16788.pdf
2011 White House Tribal Nations Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/02/president-obama-hosts-2011-white-house-tribal-nations-conference
President Barack Obama hosts the first White House Tribal Nations Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-during-opening-tribal-nations-conference-interactive-discussion-w
2012 White House Tribal Nations Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/12/05/continuing-progress-tribal-communities
2013 – Mar 5 Federal Agencies Announce Action Plan to Guide Protection of Indian Sacred Sites
http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/federal-agencies-announce-action-plan-to-guide-protection-of-indian-sacred-sites.cfm
Mar 7 Pres Obama signs VAWA 2013 and Tribal Jurisdiction Over Crimes of Domestic Violence
http://www.justice.gov/tribal/docs/vawa-2013-tribal-jurisdiction-overnon-indian-perpetrators-domesticviolence.pdf
Nov 8 Interior Expands Land Buy-Back Process Across Indian Country
http://www.bia.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc1-023977.pdf?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
2013 White House Tribal Nations Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/11/13/remarks-president-tribal-nations-conference
Nov 20 Native American Code Talkers Receive Congressional Gold Medal
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:sc25:
2014 – Jan 6 Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act, S. 1948. The legislation "would establish a grant program to fund Native language educational programs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Language_Immersion_Student_Achievement_Act
May 9 Jewell announces $700K in tribal energy grants
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/news/federal/9877-jewell-announces-700k-in-tribal-energy-grants
May 28 Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act is a bill that would transfer to the Sandia Pueblo of New Mexico some land from the United States Forest Service, provided that land remains an "open space in its natural state."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia_Pueblo_Settlement_Technical_Amendment_Act_(S._611;_113th_Congress)
Jun 8 Attorney General Eric Holder office consults with tribes to increase voting access for American Indians and Alaska Natives
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/June/14-ag-613.html
Jun 13 President Obama visits the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Cannon Ball, North Dakota
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/video/2014/06/13/president-obama-speaks-cannon-ball-flag-day-celebration
Jun 18 Washington Redskins football team's trademark registration for its nickname was canceled by a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appeals board
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-18/redskins-trademark-is-canceled-by-patent-office-as-disparaging-.html
Jun 18 The Interior Department issued a press release announcing it is taking "a first step to consider reestablishing a government-to-government relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian community
http://www.doi.gov/ohr/reorg/upload/HI-ANPRM-press-release-FINAL.pdf
Jul 16 Senators introduce Tribal Adoption Parity Act, Aug 20 Secretary Jewell Issues Secretarial Order Affirming American Indian Trust Responsibilities
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/news/federal/10158-senators-introduce-tribal-adoption-parity-act
Sep 8 USDA appoints members to Native Farming, Ranching Council
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/news/federal/10466-usda-appoints-members-to-native-farming-ranching-council
Sep 26 "Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2014," excludes Indian general welfare benefits from gross income in calculating income tax; and establishes a Tribal Advisory Committee to advise the Treasury Department on matters relating to the taxation of Indians and "Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe – Fish Springs Ranch Settlement Act," which ratifies a water settlement agreement between the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and Fish Springs Ranch
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.R.3043:
https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3716
Dec 16 President Obama designated the pristine waters of Bristol Bay as off limits to consideration for oil and gas leasing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/16/presidential-memorandum-withdrawal-certain-areas-united-states-outer-con
Dec 18 President Obama signed into law S. 1474, Alaska Safe Families and Villages Act of 2014, which repeals current law limitation on jurisdiction of Indian tribes in the State of Alaska over domestic violence
https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1474
2015 – Jan 13 Jodi Gillette, Special Assistant to President Obama for Native American Affairs, responds to the White House Petition "Stop Apache Land Grab
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-apache-land-grab/rnMfH0WL
Feb 2 President Obama takes historic step in recognizing and reaffirming true government-to-government relations and in honoring the trust responsibility to American Indian tribes pursuant to treaties and the U.S. Constitution
http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/obama-moves-tribes-discretionary-mandatory-non-discretionary-contract-support-cost-ihs/
Feb 28 Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, on behalf of the U.S., signed an historic agreement guaranteeing the water rights of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes in Nevada, Revised Guidelines of Indian Child Welfare Act
http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/secretary-jewell-signs-historic-water-rights-agreement-with-shoshone-paiute-tribes-and-state-of-nevada/
http://www.bia.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc1-029449.pdf
Mar 23 Tribes Get $6 Million in Federal Funds for Energy Efficiency Projects
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/03/23/tribes-get-6-million-federal-funds-energy-efficiency-projects-159721
Apr 29 Obama Administration designates Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe a Promise Zone
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/economicdevelopment/programs/pz/rural_tribal
Jun 12 US State Department launches initiatives to provide technical assistance and support to civil society organizations responding to hate crime and bias-motivated violence targeting LGBT persons globally
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/13/fact-sheet-us-government-efforts-address-bias-motivated-violence-against
Jul 9 White House Youth Tribal Gathering, Jul 15 President Obama visits The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/09/fact-sheet-white-house-tribal-youth-gathering
Aug 31 President Obama signs a "secretarial order" that the Federal Government has officially restored the Koyukon Athabascan name of Denali to the tallest mountain in North America (PNA Mt. McKinley).
https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.opengov.ibmcloud.com/files/press-release/Denali%20Name%20Change.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali#Naming
2016 – Jun 3 President Obama signs S. 184, the "Native American Children's Safety Act," it amends the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act to require background checks before foster care placements are made by tribal social services agencies.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/184
https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1899?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Indian+Child+Protection+and+Family+Violence+Prevention+Act%22%5D%7D&resultIndex=1
Remarks by President Obama at Memorial Service for Former South African President Nelson Mandela
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/10/remarks-president-obama-memorial-service-former-south-african-president-
11/3/14 US Reaches Settlement with Hyundai And Kia in a Historic Greenhouse Gas Enforcement Case
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-reaches-settlement-hyundai-and-kia-historic-greenhouse-gas-enforcement-case
Sparking Community Revitalization – Promise Zones
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/15/fact-sheet-president-s-plan-ensure-hard-work-leads-decent-living
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/cn
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/cn
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/economicdevelopment/programs/pz
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_planning/economicdevelopment/programs/pz/overview
https://www.hudexchange.info/promise-zones/promise-zones-designees/
9/19/14 Launch of Second Promise Zone Competition to Create Economic Opportunity in High-Poverty Communities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/19/obama-administration-launches-second-promise-zone-competition-create-eco
4/28/15 Obama Administration Announces Eight Additional Promise Zones to Build Community Prosperity
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=
2015/04/0116.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent
6/6/16 Obama Administration Announces Final Round of Promise Zone Designations to Expand Access to Opportunity in Urban, Rural and Tribal Communities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/06/obama-administration-announces-final-round-promise-zone-designations
Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (DOJ): Targets neighborhoods with persistent violent crime, focusing on hot spots of criminal activity, by employing cross-sector strategies that show evidence of impact in reducing violence.
https://www.bja.gov/bcji/
The Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program will provide financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless and help those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized. The funds under this program are intended to target individuals and families who would be homeless but for this assistance. The funds will provide for a variety of assistance, including: short-term or medium-term rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services, including such activities as mediation, credit counseling, security or utility deposits, utility payments, moving cost assistance, and case management.
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/recovery/programs/homelessness
First, I have approved a new presidential directive for our signals intelligence activities, at home and abroad. This guidance will strengthen executive branch oversight of our intelligence activities. It will ensure that we take into account our security requirements, but also our alliances; our trade and investment relationships, including the concerns of America's companies; and our commitment to privacy and basic liberties. And we will review decisions about intelligence priorities and sensitive targets on an annual basis, so that our actions are regularly scrutinized by my senior national security team.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/17/presidential-policy-directive-signals-intelligence-activities
In the latter half of 2013 and early 2014, the United States Government undertook a broad-ranging and unprecedented review of our signals intelligence programs, led by the White House with relevant Departments and Agencies across the Government. In addition to our own intensive work, the review process drew on input from key stakeholders, including Congress, the tech community, civil society, foreign partners, the Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technologies, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and others. The Administration's review examined how, in light of new and changing technologies, we can use our intelligence capabilities in a way that optimally protects our national security while supporting our foreign policy, respecting privacy and civil liberties, maintaining the public trust, and reducing the risk of unauthorized disclosures. On January 17, 2014, the President delivered a spee
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/27/statement-press-secretary-review-group-intelligence-and-communications-t
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/17/fact-sheet-review-us-signals-intelligence
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/27/fact-sheet-administration-s-proposal-ending-section-215-bulk-telephony-m
Launching Four New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes in 2014. Launching Four New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes in 2014. To support investment in our manufacturers' competitiveness and accelerate innovation in manufacturing, the President will use his executive authority to launch four new manufacturing innovation institutes this year, a co-investment by the private sector and Federal agencies, led by the Departments of Defense and Energy.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/15/president-obama-announces-new-public-private-manufacturing-innovation-in
Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Raleigh, NC
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/01/15/wide-bandgap-semiconductors-essential-our-technology-future
Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, Chicago, IL
http://manufacturing.gov/dmdi.html
One Institute, Detroit, MI
http://www.detroitmi.gov/News/ArticleID/18/Federally-Funded-Program-to-Spur-Faster-Commercialization-of-Lightweight-Metal-Technology-Will-be-Known-as-LIFT
National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, Youngstown, OH
http://www.manufacturing.gov/nnmi.html
myRA (my Retirement Account)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/28/presidential-memorandum-retirement-savings-security
https://myra.gov/
Raising the Minimum Wage to $10.10 for Those Working on New Federal Contracts
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/28/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-rewarding-hard-work
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/12/executive-order-minimum-wage-contractors
ConnectED initiative
Modernizing and Expanding the E-Rate Program
Connecting More than 15,000 Schools and 20 Million Students over the Next Two Years
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/education/k-12/connected
Youth CareerConnect
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/07/fact-sheet-youth-careerconnect
First White House Maker Faire. Later this year, the Administration will launch an all-hands-on-deck effort to provide even more students and entrepreneurs access to the tools, spaces, and mentors needed to Make. There are many ways in which, in addition to the contributions of thousands of individual Makers, companies, universities, mayors and communities, and foundations, and philanthropists can get involved.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/03/announcing-first-white-house-maker-faire
6/6/13 Bringing America's Students into the Digital Age
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/06/06/bringing-america-s-students-digital-age
6/6/13 Closing the Broadband Gap for Students and Teachers
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2013/06/closing-the-broadband-gap-for-students-and-teachers/
2/4/14 ConnectED FACT SHEET
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/04/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-answering-president-s-call-enrich-american-ed
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/connected_fact_sheet.pdf
4/7/14 Youth CareerConnect FACT SHEET
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/07/fact-sheet-youth-careerconnect
11/19/14 FACT SHEET: ConnectED to the Future
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/19/fact-sheet-connected-future
4/30/15 Press Release: President Obama Announces Open eBooks and ConnectED Library Challenge
http://www.imls.gov/president_obama_announces_open_ebooks_and_connected_library_challenge.aspx
4/30/15 White House Fact Sheet: Spreading the Joy of Reading to More Children and Young Adults
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/30/fact-sheet-spreading-joy-reading-more-children-and-young-adults
4/30/15 Watch on White House Live: President Obama Participates in a "Virtual Field Trip" with Students Around the Country
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/live/president-obamaparticipates-virtual-field-trip-students-around-country
USDA has answered the call from our nation's producers and land managers and launched seven regionally-located Climate Hubs to act as repositories of data and offer the practical, science-based tools and strategies our producers need to adapt and succeed in the face of a changing climate. Recognizing that regions face different climate challenges, the Hubs are housed in USDA facilities spread across the country. Each Hub will focus on developing research and solutions tailored to the specific vulnerabilities of its region, such as drought-tolerant seed varieties, strategies to maintain soil health, and ways to monitor and respond to fires and pest outbreaks.
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=2014/02/0016.xml
http://www.usda.gov/oce/climate_change/regional_hubs.htm
http://www.usda.gov/oce/climate_change/hubs/USDAHubsFactsheet.pdf
The Agricultural Act of 2014
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.113hr2642
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/02/0015.xml
H.R. 3658, the "Monuments Men Recognition Act of 2014," which provides for the award of a single congressional gold medal collectively, to the Monuments Men, in recognition of their heroic role in the preservation, protection, and restitution of monuments, works of art, and artifacts of cultural importance during and following World War II;
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c113:1:./temp/~c113qskwlc::
President Obama Leading Administration-wide Drought Response
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/14/fact-sheet-president-obama-leading-administration-wide-drought-response
The National Drought Resilience Partnership (NDRP) will help coordinate the federal response, working closely with state, local government, agriculture and other partners. The NDRP is already helping to enhance existing efforts that federal agencies are working on with communities, businesses, farmers and ranchers to build resilience where drought is currently an issue across the country.
http://www.drought.gov/media/pgfiles/ndrp/NDRP-FAQs-FINAL.pdf
Secretary Vilsack Expands StrikeForce Initiative to Address Rural Poverty in Four Additional States
http://www.usda.gov/StrikeForce
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdamediafb?contentid=2014/01/0009.xml&printable=true&contentidonly=true
"Ready to Work Partnership" grants designed to help those facing long-term unemployment upgrade their skills and build bridges to jobs in growing areas like information technology and advanced manufacturing. These competitive grants will support partnerships between employers, nonprofit organizations and America's public workforce system that not only continue building the pipeline of skilled workers, but do so by helping the long-term unemployed overcome some of the barriers they face in finding jobs.
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ETA20140293.htm
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/21/down-payment-expanding-opportunity-america-s-long-term-unemployed
College Opportunity
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/16/fact-sheet-president-and-first-lady-s-call-action-college-opportunity
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/increasing_college_opportunity_for_low-income_students_report.pdf
Commitments to Action on College Opportunity
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/college_opportunity_commitments_0.pdf
Doubling Investments in Pell Grants
The President has raised the maximum Pell Grant award to $5,635 for the 2013-14 award year — a $905 increase since 2008. Under the President's leadership, the number of Pell Grant recipients has expanded by 50 percent over that same time, providing college access to millions of additional low-income and middle-class students across the country. The Obama Administration's landmark investment in the Pell Grant was enacted in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which ended student loan subsidies for private financial institutions and banks and shifted over $60 billion in savings back to students.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/education/higher-education/making-college-affordable
Helping Students Manage Student Loan Debt
The Administration's "Pay as You Earn" plan expands income-based repayment to enable 1.6 million students to take advantage of a new option to cap repayment of student loans at 10 percent of monthly income — an option that student borrowers can begin to use at the end of this year. These changes will reduce the burden of student loans in a fiscally responsible way. Additionally, millions of borrowers are now eligible to consolidate Direct Loans and FFEL Loans and save up to half a percentage point on their interest rate.For more information: Everything you need to know about income-based repayment
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/06/07/income-based-repayment-everything-you-need-know
Expanding Education Tax Credits
President Obama established the American Opportunity Tax Credit in 2009 to assist families with the costs of college, providing up to $10,000 for four years of college tuition for families earning up to $180,000. Over 9.4 million students and families benefit from the American Opportunity Tax Credit each year.
Keeping Student Loan Interest Rates Low
In his 2012 State of the Union address, the President called on Congress to keep interest rates low for the 7.4 million borrowers who take out subsidized Federal student loans for this school year. With President Obama's leadership, rates on new subsidized Stafford loans remained at 3.4 percent — instead of doubling to 6.8 percent — this past summer. This bold action saved students an average of $1,000 on the life of their loans, and President Obama has committed to keeping interest rates low for student loans moving forward.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/dont-double-my-rates
In August, President Obama signed a bill that takes an important step in fulfilling our nation's obligations to students. The bipartisan legislation cuts rates on all new loans this year and save a typical undergraduate student $1,500 over the life of those loans. Learn more: Fact Sheet on Bipartisan Student Loan Deal
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/23/fact-sheet-bipartisan-student-loan-deal-win-students
Executive Order: Overtime Pay Compensation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/13/presidential-memorandum-updating-and-modernizing-overtime-regulations
Michelle Obama: China
http://blogs.state.gov/stories/2011/01/19/first-lady-michelle-obama-speaks-100000-strong-china-study-abroad-initiative
http://whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/first-lady-china-trip
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/21/remarks-first-lady-michelle-obama-and-president-xi-jinping-china
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/21/remarks-first-lady-michelle-obama-and-madame-peng-tour-beijing-normal-sc
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/22/remarks-first-lady-stanford-center-peking-university
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/22/remarks-first-lady-video-conference-students-peking-university-and-stanf
President Obama's European Travel Itinerary 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/24/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-rutte-netherlands-after-bilat
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/24/remarks-president-obama-and-president-xi-jinping-china-bilateral-meeting
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/25/press-conference-president-obama-and-prime-minister-rutte-netherlands
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/25/remarks-president-obama-closing-session-nuclear-security-summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/25/remarks-president-obama-president-park-republic-south-korea-and-prime-mi
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/remarks-president-obama-his-majesty-king-philippe-and-prime-minister-di-
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/remarks-president-obama-his-majesty-king-philippe-and-prime-minister-di-
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ec/140693.pdf
http://http//www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/press-conference-president-obama-european-council-president-van-rompuy-a
http://http//www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/remarks-president-obama-and-nato-secretary-general-rasmussen-meeting
http://http//www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/remarks-president-address-european-youth
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/27/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-renzi-italy-joint-press-confe
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/29/remarks-president-presenting-state-departments-2014-women-courage-award-
President Obama Establishes Point Arena-Stornetta Unit of California Coastal National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/11/presidential-proclamation-boundary-enlargement-california-coastal-nation
Executive Order With Equal Pay Rules For Federal Contractors
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/12/remarks-president-signing-executive-order
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/08/executive-order-non-retaliation-disclosure-compensation-information
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/08/presidential-memorandum-advancing-pay-equality-through-compensation-data
Making Home Affordable 2009
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/2009218954476942.aspx
Home Affordable Unemployment Program (UP) provides temporary relief to unemployed homeowners while they look for another job
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/programs/unemployed-help/Pages/up.aspx
Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA)
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/programs/exit-gracefully/Pages/hafa.aspx
HAMP's Principal Reduction Alternative (PRA) programme
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/programs/lower-payments/Pages/pra.aspx
MHA has been extended until December 2015.
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/about-mha/latest-news/Pages/Obama-Administration-Extends-Deadline-for-Making-Home-Affordable-Program.aspx
http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Making-Home-Affordable-Five-Years-Later.aspx
2014 White House Easter Egg Roll: Hop into Healthy, Swing into Shape
http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2014/04/22/hop-healthy-swing-shape-2014-white-house-easter-egg-roll
http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2014/04/10/its-white-house-easter-egg-roll
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/21/remarks-president-and-first-lady-easter-egg-roll
President Obama and Philippines President Akino hold a joint press conference
Malacanang Palace, Manila, Philippines
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/28/remarks-president-obama-and-president-benigno-aquino-iii-philippines-joi
President Obama delivers remarks to US and Filipino service memebers and veterans
Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/28/remarks-president-obama-filipino-and-us-armed-forces-fort-bonifacio
President Obama participates in a town hall with participants in the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative
Malaya University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/27/remarks-president-obama-young-southeast-asian-leaders-initiative-town-ha
President Obama and Malaysian Prime Minister participates in an event Malaysian
Global Innovation and Creativity Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/27/remarks-president-obama-malaysian-global-innovation-and-creativity-cente
President Obama deliver remarks to US service members and US embassy staff
Yongsan Garrison, Seoul, South Korea
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/26/remarks-president-obama-us-troops-and-personnel-us-army-garrison-yongsan
President Obama delivers remarks with President Park of the Republic of Korea on the return of cultural artifacts
Blue House, Seoul, Republic of Korea
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/25/remarks-president-obama-and-president-park-korean-seals-presentation
President Obama delivers remarks at the Miraikan Science Expo, a youth and science event with students
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/24/remarks-president-obama-miraikan-science-and-youth-expo
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole at the Press Conference Announcing the Clemency Initiative. Last year, the Attorney General launched a new "Smart on Crime" initiative. Smart on Crime was conceived with an eye toward addressing the crises caused by a vastly overcrowded prison population and with a goal of redirecting some of the dollars we spend on prisons to prosecutors and law enforcement agents working to keep our streets safer. It is designed to strengthen the criminal justice system, promote public safety, and deliver on the promise of equal justice under law. In 2010, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced unfair disparities in sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine. But the Fair Sentencing Act did not apply to those who were sentenced before its passage. And now there are many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime – and who, as a result, will have to spend far more time in prison than they would if sentenced today for exactly the same crime. The fundamental American concept, equal justice under law, requires that our laws be enforced fairly – and not just going forward, but it is equally important that we extend this fairness to those who are already serving prison sentences for their crimes. Last December, President Obama took steps toward addressing this situation by granting commutations to eight men and women who had each served more than 15 years in prison for crack cocaine offenses. For two of these individuals, it was the first conviction they'd ever received – yet, due to mandatory guidelines that were considered severe at the time, and are out of date today – they and four others had received life sentences. Since that time, the President has indicated that he wants to be able to consider additional, similar applications for commutation of sentence, to restore a degree of fairness and proportionality for deserving individuals. The Justice Department is committed to responding to the President's directive by finding additional candidates who are similarly situated to those granted clemency last year, and recommending qualified applicants for reduced sentences. We are launching this clemency initiative in order to quickly and effectively identify appropriate candidates, candidates who have a clean prison record, do not present a threat to public safety, and were sentenced under out-of-date laws that have since been changed, and are no longer seen as appropriate. While those sentenced prior to the Fair Sentencing Act may be the most obvious candidates, this initiative is not limited to crack offenders. Rather, the initiative is open to candidates who meet six criteria: they must be
- (1) inmates who are currently serving a federal sentence in prison and, by operation of law, likely would have received a substantially lower sentence if convicted of the same offense today
- (2) are non-violent, low-level offenders without significant ties to large-scale criminal organizations, gangs, or cartels
- (3) have served at least 10 years of their sentence
- (4) do not have a significant criminal history
- (5) have demonstrated good conduct in prison; and (6) have no history of violence prior to or during their current term of imprisonment.
http://www.justice.gov/ag/smart-on-crime.pdf
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111s1789enr/pdf/BILLS-111s1789enr.pdf
http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/dag/speeches/2014/dag-speech-140423.html
President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111s1789enr/pdf/BILLS-111s1789enr.pdf
Up to $150 million in grants ranging from $500,000 to $6 million are being made available to states, territories and federally-recognized tribes through the Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Worker National Reserve fund. Applications must be received by May 27 to be considered.
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ETA20140714.htm
As part of his plan to build an economy where everybody who is willing to work hard and take responsibility can get ahead, President Obama is focused on doing everything we can to create new jobs here in America – while also connecting more ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be-filled jobs. That's why this week the administration announced the availability of applications for $150 million in "Ready to Work Partnership" grants designed to help those facing long-term unemployment upgrade their skills and build bridges to jobs in growing areas like information technology and advanced manufacturing. These competitive grants will support partnerships between employers, nonprofit organizations and America's public workforce system that not only continue building the pipeline of skilled workers, but do so by helping the long-term unemployed overcome some of the barriers they face in finding jobs.
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ETA20140293.htm
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/21/down-payment-expanding-opportunity-america-s-long-term-unemployed
"Ready to Work Partnership" grants
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ETA20140293.htm
American Job Training Investments: Skills and Jobs to Build a Stronger Middle Class. American Job Training Executive Actions. Partnering Local Businesses with Community Colleges to Put Americans Back to Work Through a Nearly $500 Million Job Training Competition. Today, the Department of Labor is releasing the application for partnerships of community colleges, employers and industry to develop training programs that are job-driven – that is – designed to respond to the demands of employers so people get placed in jobs. As part of a nearly $500 million competition, all grantees will be required to identify sectors with open jobs to fill, partner with the public workforce system and employers in that sector to address the skills needed for these open jobs, and create pathways from entry level positions to more advanced positions to ensure room for growth for employees with even the lowest starting skills levels. This program is a part of the Trade Adjustment Assistance and Community College and Career Training (TAA-CCCT) competitive grant program that has, over the last three years, supported community colleges preparing dislocated workers and other adults for jobs available in their regional economies. For the first time, this year's funding will prioritize three key goals by providing larger grants to applicants who propose to address them:
- Scale In-Demand Job Training Across the Country through National Industry Partnerships
- Advance Education & Training to Ensure a Seamless Progression from One Stepping Stone to Another
- Improve Statewide Employment and Education Data Integration and Use
Expanding Apprenticeships for Good Middle Class Jobs
- Launch apprenticeship models in new, high-growth fields
- Align apprenticeships to pathways for further learning and career advancement
- Scale apprenticeship models that work
Making Apprenticeships Work for More Americans
- Streamlining GI Bill benefits for apprentices
- Connecting apprentices with college credit.
Business and Philanthropic Investments in Job-Driven Training
- The President's Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) is developing scalable apprenticeship models in high need advanced manufacturing
- The United Auto Workers, in partnership with employers such as Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, John Deere and many others, plans to add nearly 2,000 apprentices
- UPS will add 2,000 new apprentices, including drivers and apprentices in new programs like IT, operations, and automotive repair
- The SEIU Healthcare Northwest Training Partnership (Training Partnership), in partnership with its employers ResCare, Addus, Chesterfield, the State of Washington, and others, is expanding its novel apprenticeship program for home care aides to train 3,000 apprentices a year
- North America's Building Trades Unions pledge to add 25,000 new apprentices over the next five years
Philanthropic and Non-Profit Support to Generate Stronger Community College-Industry Partnerships
- Philanthropic Support for Potential Applicants and Grantees
- Best Practices Website for Community Colleges and Employers to Develop Job-Driven Training Partnerships
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/16/fact-sheet-american-job-training-investments-skills-and-jobs-build-stron
http://social.dol.gov/blog/investing-in-skills-to-build-a-secure-middle-class/
http://www.doleta.gov/OA/aag.cfm
http://social.dol.gov/blog/transforming-apprenticeships-for-the-21st-century/
American Apprenticeship Grants
http://www.doleta.gov/OA/aag.cfm
http://social.dol.gov/blog/transforming-apprenticeships-for-the-21st-century/
Veterans' access to apprenticeships
http://doleta.gov/oa/veterans.cfm
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of the final $450 million in grants under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative. Over the last three years, these unprecedented investments have helped expand the capacity of the American community college system to provide accessible training programs that connect people to available jobs in growing industries in their communities. These grants are an important part of the Obama administration's job-driven skills agenda and are being implemented in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education.
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ETA20140644.htm
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:s.815:
Better Buildings Summit
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/betterbuildings/summit/
Better Buildings Challenge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/02/we-cant-wait-president-obama-announces-nearly-4-billion-investment-energ
President Obama Announces Commitments and Executive Actions to Advance Solar Deployment and Energy Efficiency
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-commitments-and-executive-actions-a
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/progress_report--advancing_toward_clean_energy_future.pdf
Yes, we did: the 5-Year Anniversary of the Recovery Act
- Improved nearly 42,000 miles of American road;
- Repaired or replaced more than 2,700 bridges;
- Helped transit agencies purchase more than 12,220 transit vehicles;
- Upgraded or constructed more than 6,000 miles of better performing rail;
- Purchased 120 next-generation rail cars and locomotives; and
- Increased safety and convenience with more than 360 airport and runway projects.
http://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/yes-we-did-5-year-anniversary-recovery-act
President Obama Lays Out Vision for 21st Century Transportation Infrastructure
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/26/fact-sheet-president-obama-lays-out-vision-21st-century-transportation-i
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/14/fact-sheet-building-21st-century-infrastructure-modernizing-infrastructu
President Obama announced that the Department of Transportation is making available $600 million in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants, a tremendously successful program investing in our nation's infrastructure. These new grants mark the sixth round of the TIGER program, which has already invested $3.5 billion in 270 transportation projects across the country.
http://www.dot.gov/tiger
TIGER programme
http://www.dot.gov/tiger
GROW AMERICA Fact Sheets; Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America
http://www.dot.gov/grow-america/focus-areas
http://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=8627b0e2-cdd5-4fba-baa0-35cc2cd6f6bf
http://www.dot.gov/grow-america/bus-tour
First Lady Michelle speaks at a "Senior Recognition Day"
on the 60th Anniversary of the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/17/remarks-first-lady-topeka-school-district-senior-recognition-day
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/17/fact-sheet-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-t-tip
The president will sign a proclamation establishing the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument, the largest such designation of his presidency, during a ceremony at the Department of the Interior, the White House said Monday.It will be the 11th time the president has established a national monument during his term, and the largest designation in terms of land mass during his presidency.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/21/presidential-proclamation-organ-mountains-desert-peaks-national-monument
2014 White House Science Fair
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/27/white-house-science-fair-fact-sheet-backgrounder
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/27/meet-exhibitors-2014-white-house-science-fair
President Obama Applauds Commitments to Address Sports-Related Concussions in Young People
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/29/fact-sheet-president-obama-applauds-commitments-address-sports-related-c
http://www.iom.edu/reports/2013/sports-related-concussions-in-youth-improving-the-science-changing-the-culture.aspx
http://www.iom.edu/reports/2013/sports-related-concussions-in-youth-improving-the-science-changing-the-culture.aspx
http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/Sports_Injuries/index.html#resources
President Obama to Host Healthy Kids & Safe Sports Concussion Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/29/president-obama-hosts-healthy-kids-and-safe-sports-concussion-summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/29/remarks-president-healthy-kids-and-safe-sports-concussion-summit
US & China carbon agreement
The U.S. and China Just Announced Important New Actions to Reduce Carbon Pollution
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/11/12/us-and-china-just-announced-important-new-actions-reduce-carbon-pollution
Obama Administration Announces Federal and Private Sector Actions to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption in the United States
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/21/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-federal-and-private-sector
EPA's Administrator Gina McCarthy announces the new Carbon Pollution Protections' Clean Power Plan
https://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/8d49f7ad4bbcf4ef852573590040b7f6/c45baade030b640785257ceb003f3ac3!opendocument
President Obama hosts a telephone briefing with the American Lung Association and other national health groups and health professionals from across the country to discuss the EPA's proposal of carbon pollution limits from existing power plants, expected health benefits, and opportunities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/02/remarks-president-conference-call-hosted-public-health-groups
Reducing Carbon Pollution in Our Power Plants
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/31/weekly-address-reducing-carbon-pollution-our-power-plants
http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards
On June 25, 2013, President Obama announced a series of executive actions to reduce carbon pollution, prepare the U.S. for the impacts of climate change and lead international efforts to address global climate change. As part of the Climate Action Plan, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the EPA to work expeditiously to complete carbon pollution standards for the power sector. You can learn more about the President's Climate Action plan on the White House web site.
http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/25/presidential-memorandum-power-sector-carbon-pollution-standards
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/climate-change
President Obama delivers remarks at the French-American commemoration, D-Day ceremony
Normandy American Cemetery Memorial, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/06/remarks-president-obama-70th-anniversary-d-day-omaha-beach-normandy
President Obama participates in the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
http://www.the70th-normandy.com/?lang=en
President Obama attends and delivers remarks at the Day of Freedom Event ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of Poland's first free elections
Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/04/remarks-president-obama-25th-anniversary-freedom-day-warsaw-poland
The United States and Poland: Strong and United
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/03/fact-sheet-united-states-and-poland-strong-and-united
U.S. Assistance to Moldova
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/07/fact-sheet-us-assistance-moldova
U.S. Assistance to Georgia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/07/fact-sheet-us-assistance-georgia
President Obama signs a presidential memorandum, A Student Aid Bill of Rights to Help Ensure Affordable Loan Repayment
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/03/10/student-aid-bill-rights-enhancing-protections-student-loan-borrowers
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/10/fact-sheet-student-aid-bill-rights-taking-action-ensure-strong-consumer-
Supporting America's Students
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/09/factsheet-making-student-loans-more-affordable
Expanding Income-Based Repayment
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/education/higher-education/making-college-affordable
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/06/07/income-based-repayment-everything-you-need-know
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/education/higher-education/making-college-affordable
Pay As You Earn, a U.S. federal student debt relief law program is passed and into law and signed President Barack Obama.
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/education-department-launches-pay-you-earn-student-loan-repayment-plan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_as_You_Earn_(PAYE)_-_Federal_Student_Loan_Relief_Program
President Obama signs H.R. 1726, an Act to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment, known as the Borinqueneers
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1726
https://gutierrez.house.gov/press-release/borinqueneers%E2%80%99-congressional-gold-medal-recognition-sacrifices-puerto-rico%E2%80%99s-famed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)
On June 17, 2014 President Obama annouced a Presidential Memorandum that increases the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument ocean preserve to 782,000 square miles (2,030,000 km2), making it the largest ocean preserve in the world while banning drilling, fishing and other activities. On September 25, 2014 President Obama signed a proclamation designating Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument off-limits to development. President Obama announced that he will expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. This Monument contains some of the most pristine tropical ecosystems in the world, but is vulnerable to ocean acidification and climate change. The Associated Press
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/presidential-memorandum-comprehensive-framework-combat-illegal-unreporte
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/25/presidential-proclamation-pacific-remote-islands-marine-national-monumen
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/obama-create-worlds-largest-ocean-preserve-24171159
President Obama Announces Plan to Create the Largest Marine Protected Area in the World with Help from Marine Conservation Institute Marine Conservation Institute
http://blog.marine-conservation.org/2014/06/president-obama.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=president-obama
Presidential Memorandum — Comprehensive Framework to Combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/presidential-memorandum-comprehensive-framework-combat-illegal-unreporte
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ia/iuu/taskforce.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/national_ocean_policy_ip_appendix.pdf
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/20150315-presidential-task-force-releases-action-plan-to-combat-illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishingaand-seafood-fraud.html
New Actions to Protect and Preserve the Ocean
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/fact-sheet-leading-home-and-internationally-protect-our-ocean-and-coasts
Our Ocean
http://ourocean.info/
Recognizing these significant challenges, President Obama launched the National Ocean Policy early in his first term. The National Ocean Policy seeks to streamline more than 100 laws that govern our oceans and create a coordinated, science-based approach to managing the many resources and uses of our coasts and oceans. National Ocean Policy initiatives range from voluntary marine planning to releasing more federal data to supporting offshore renewable energy projects to making our ports more resilient to sea level rise.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/oceans/policy
White House Working Families Summit June 23, 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/nine_facts_about_family_and_work_real_final.pdf
http://workingfamiliessummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/white-house-summit-toolkit.pdf
http://workingfamiliessummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Remarks-by-POTUS-to-Women-Members-of-Congress.pdf
http://workingfamiliessummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FACT-SHEET-Expanding-Economic-Opportunity-for-Women-and-Working-Families.pdf
http://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2014/03/12/85689/release-the-white-house-cap-and-the-u-s-department-of-labor-to-hold-white-house-summit-on-working-families-june-23/
Presidential Memorandum — Enhancing Workplace Flexibilities and Work-Life Program
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/23/presidential-memorandum-enhancing-workplace-flexibilities-and-work-life-
USFWS and ASEAN-WEN: A Trans-Pacific Wildlife Law Enforcement Partnership
http://www.fws.gov/home/feature/2010/pdf/12510USFWSOLEASEANWENPartnership.pdf
Combating Illegal Wildlife Trafficking Incorporated in Trade Agenda
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2014/June/USTR-Froman-Congressman-Meeks-Highlight-JFK-Airport-Hub-for-International-Trade
President Obama announces more restrictions on sale of ivory from African elephants
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/25/remarks-president-obama-and-president-kenyatta-kenya-press-conference
Advancing Democracy, Human Rights, Gender Equality, Wildlife Conservation, and Governance in Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/26/fact-sheet-advancing-democracy-human-rights-gender-equality-wildlife
President Barack Obama issued an order July 1 to fight the killing of protected wildlife, stop the trafficking, and reduce demand for illegal rhino horns and ivory. Members of a newly created advisory council sketched a broad approach of enlisting governments, companies and nonprofits worldwide, the Denver Post reported Tuesday (http://tinyurl.com/pzmcz9g).
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/01/executive-order-combating-wildlife-trafficking
U.S. Fish Wildlife Service – Crush Page
http://www.fws.gov/le/elephant-ivory-crush.html
http://www.fws.gov/le/pdf/Elephant-Ivory-Investigations.pdf
http://www.fws.gov/le/pdf/CITES-and-Elephant-Conservation.pdf
http://www.fws.gov/international/wildlife-without-borders/african-elephant-conservation-fund.html
http://www.fws.gov/international/wildlife-without-borders/asian-elephant-conservation-fund.html
http://www.fws.gov/le/pdf/Key-Elephant-Projects.pdf
http://www.fws.gov/le/pdf/FY2013-Elephant-Projects.pdf
http://www.fws.gov/international/advisory-council-wildlife-trafficking
U.S. Support for Combating Wildlife Trafficking
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/fact-sheet-us-support-combating-wildlife-trafficking
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2014: Year Of Executive Action
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/year-of-action
1/3/14 Partnering With Many of America's Leading CEOs to Help the Long-Term Unemployed
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-31/ceos-pledge-help-to-white-house-for-long-term-unemployed.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/31/presidential-memorandum-enhancing-safeguards-prevent-undue-denial-federa
1/9/14 Promoting Economic Development in "Promise Zones"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/01/09/partnering-local-communities-first-five-promise-zones
1/15/14 Wide Bandgap Semiconductors launched in Raleigh, NC
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/01/15/wide-bandgap-semiconductors-essential-our-technology-future
1/16/14 College Opportunity Summit with more than 150 commitments by colleges, universities and organizations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/16/remarks-president-and-first-lady-college-opportunity-summit
1/29/14 Presidential Memorandum directing Treasury to create myRA retirement program
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/11/myra-helping-millions-americans-save-retirement
1/30/14 President Obama announced a FAFSA Completion Initiative, led by the Department of Education, to increase the percentage of students who complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/03/07/world-class-education-every-student-america
1/31/14 300+ companies signed on to best practices on recruiting and hiring the long-term unemployed, along with $150 million committed towards Ready to Work Partnership Grants
http://doleta.gov/readytowork/
2/4/14 Annoucement of President's ConnectED goal of connecting 99% of students to next-generation broadband and wireless technology within five years.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/04/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-answering-president-s-call-enrich-american-ed
2/5/14 New USDA regional climate hubs established
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=2014/02/0016.xml
2/7/14 "Made In Rural America" Export and Investment Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/07/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-establishing-new-made-rural-america-export-an
2/12/14 Executive Order raising minimum wage for workers on new federal contracts
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/12/executive-order-minimum-wage-contractors
2/18/14 President Obama directed the EPA and Dept. of Transportation to develop and issue new fuel-efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles and propose new incentives for medium- and heavy-duty trucks that run on alternative fuels like natural gas — benefiting our planet, our economy, and our energy security.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/18/kicking-vehicle-efficiency-high-gear
2/19/14 Executive Order directing the timely completion of the International Trade Data System
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/19/executive-order-streamlining-exportimport-process-america-s-businesses
2/25/14 New manufacturing institutes launched Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute in Chicago and One Institute in Detroit
http://manufacturing.gov/dmdi.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/20/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-winner-new-smart-manufacturing
2/27/14 Presidential Memorandum – Creating and Expanding Ladders of Opportunity for Boys and Young Men of Color
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/27/presidential-memorandum-creating-and-expanding-ladders-opportunity-boys-
3/7/14 FAFSA Completion Initiative launched to help students apply for college financial aid
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/07/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-promoting-college-opportunity-and-graduation
3/11/14 President Obama Establishes Point Arena-Stornetta Unit of California Coastal National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/11/president-obama-establishes-point-arena-stornetta-unit-california-coasta
3/13/14 Presidential Memorandum – Updating and Modernizing Overtime Regulations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/13/presidential-memorandum-updating-and-modernizing-overtime-regulations
3/14/14 Gainful employment regulations released to protect many students from unaffordable college loans
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/03/14/expanding-opportunity-through-open-educational-resources
3/19/14 Climate Data Initiative launched
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/19/fact-sheet-president-s-climate-data-initiative-empowering-america-s-comm
3/20/14 Announcement of 2015 SelectUSA Summit and over $18 billion in investment facilitated by SelectUSA to date
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/20/remarks-president-meeting-business-leaders
3/28/14 Released strategy to reduce methane emissions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/28/fact-sheet-climate-action-plan-strategy-cut-methane-emissions
4/7/14 Award of $100 million in grants to redesign high schools
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/25/fact-sheet-taking-action-improve-teacher-preparation
4/8/14 Executive Order – Equal Pay Rules For Federal Contractors
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/08/executive-order-non-retaliation-disclosure-compensation-information
4/16/14 President Obama announced two new grant programs to spread models of job-driven training — along with private-sector commitments
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/30/fact-sheet-opportunity-all-empowering-all-americans-skills-needed-demand
4/25/14 Laid out plan to strengthen America's teacher preparation programs
https://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/our-future-our-teachers.pdf
5/6/14 Third National Climate Assessment released
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/climate-change
5/9/14 Commitment by 300 public and private sector organizations to cut energy waste and deploy enough solar energy to power nearly 130,000 homes
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/17/fact-sheet-building-progress-supporting-solar-deployment-and-jobs
5/15/14 President Obama Executive Actions that will Create Jobs and Cut Carbon Pollution
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-commitments-and-executive-actions-a
5/21/14 President Obama Designates Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/21/presidential-proclamation-organ-mountains-desert-peaks-national-monument
5/22/14 Presidential Memorandum directing DHS and Commerce to take steps to improve the entry process for international arrivals
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/22/presidential-memorandum-establishing-national-goal-and-developing-airpor
5/27/14 4th White House Science Fair with new steps to help more students excel in STEM education and ConnectED commitments
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/science-fair
5/28/14 Energy Datapalooza with commitments from utilities and cities to use open data to drive energy efficiency
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/28/harnessing-power-data-technology-and-innovation-clean-energy-economy
5/29/14 White House Healthy Kids and Safe Sports Concussion Summit
https://propresobama.org/page/63/%20
5/30/14 My Brother's Keeper Federal Task Force issued its 90-day report
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/053014_mbk_report.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/30/my-brothers-keeper-90-days
6/1/14 President Barack Obama issued an order to fight the killing of protected wildlife, stop the trafficking, and reduce demand for illegal rhino horns and ivory.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/01/executive-order-combating-wildlife-trafficking
6/2/14 Proposed the Clean Power Plan to protect the health of our children and put our nation on the path toward a 30 percent reduction in carbon pollution from the power sector by 2030
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/31/weekly-address-reducing-carbon-pollution-our-power-plants
6/4/14 Joined four governors and 77 mayors to call for an end to veterans homelessness by the end of 2015
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/04/fact-sheet-mayors-challenge-end-veteran-homelessness
6/9/14 Presidential Memorandum — "Pay As You Earn' Federal Student Loan Repayments
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/09/presidential-memorandum-federal-student-loan-repayments
6/12/14 Proposed rule issued to raise minimum wage for workers on new federal contracts to $10.10 an hour
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2014/m-14-09.pdf
6/13/14 Announced steps to strengthen Native American communities through education and economic development
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/13/fact-sheet-strengthening-tribal-communities-through-education-and-econom
6/14/14 Nearly $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition announced, to support innovative local resilience projects
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/11/15/introducing-national-drought-resilience-partnership
6/17/14 President Obama's Executive Action to Spur Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Revitalize American Manufacturing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-pen-and-phone-actions-spur-inno
6/17/14 Actions announced to preserve and protect oceans, including to combat black market fishing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/presidential-memorandum-comprehensive-framework-combat-illegal-unreporte
6/17/14 New actions by federal agencies, Mayors, and local leaders to invest locally in manufacturing entrepreneurship
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-pen-and-phone-actions-spur-inno
6/18/14 First-Ever White House Maker Faire, expanding access to tools to launch businesses, learn STEM skills, and lead a grassroots renaissance in American manufacturing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/18/fact-sheet-president-obama-host-first-ever-white-house-maker-faire
6/20/14 Presidential Action: Rule that makes legally married same-sex couples eligible for benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act
http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/nprm%2Dspouse/
6/20/14 Presidential Memorandum — Creating "Pollinate Health Task Force"a Federal Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/20/presidential-memorandum-creating-federal-strategy-promote-health-honey-b
6/23/14 Actions taken to support working families as part of Summit on Working Families, including a Presidential Memorandum directing federal agencies to enhance workplace flexibilities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/23/remarks-president-obama-white-house-summit-working-families-june-23-2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/23/presidential-memorandum-enhancing-workplace-flexibilities-and-work-life-
7/10/14 President Obama hosts The First-Ever White House Summit on American Apprenticeship that calls on business leaders, community colleges, mayors, governors, and labor leaders to increase the number of U.S. apprenticeships
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/07/14/first-ever-white-house-summit-american-apprenticeship-helping-american-workers-punch
7/11/14 Presidential Initiative of SupplierPay, a new partnership with the private sector to strengthen small businesses by increasing their working capital, so they can grow their businesses and hire more workers.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/supplierpay_pledge.pdf
7/21/14 President Obama Executive Order outlawing anti-LGBT discrimination among federal contractors and federal employees
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/21/executive-order-further-amendments-executive-order-11478-equal-employmen
7/30/14 – House GOP voted to sue President Obama for using his executive authority
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-votes-to-sue-obama
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders
7/31/14 The Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order governs new federal procurement contracts valued at more than $500,000, providing information on companies' compliance with federal labor laws for agencies
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/31/executive-order-fair-pay-and-safe-workplaces
8/7/14 President Obama signs H.R. 3230 – Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.R.3230:
8/26/14 President Obama Executive Actions to Fulfill our Promises to Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families
http://www.va.gov/opa/docs/26-AUG-JOINT-FACT-SHEET-FINAL.pdf
9/22/14 President Obama Supported the Treasury Department's decision to rein in corporate tax inversions
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl2645.aspx
9/25/14 President Obama proclamation designating Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument off-limits to development
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/25/presidential-proclamation-pacific-remote-islands-marine-national-monumen
10/6/14 President Obama took executive action to improve quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/06/fact-sheet-administration-announces-new-executive-actions-improve-qualit
10/15/14 Organizing colabrations of employers, communities across the country, and to federal agencies to work together in Helping Long-Term Unemployed Americans To Get Back to Work
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/15/fact-sheet-getting-long-term-unemployed-americans-back-work
10/16/14 Executive Order: Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/16/executive-order-ordering-selected-reserve-and-certain-individual-ready-r
10/17/14 Executive Order: Improving the Security of Consumer Financial Transaction
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/17/executive-order-improving-security-consumer-financial-transactions
11/12/14 White House hosted a Women and Girls of Color: Addressing Challenges and Expanding Opportunity
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/21/presidential-memorandum-creating-welcoming-communities-and-fully-integra
11/15/14 President Obama pledged $2 billion to Green Climate Fund to reduce carbon pollution and strengthen resilience in developing countries
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/15/fact-sheet-united-states-support-global-efforts-combat-carbon-pollution-
11/17/14 President Obama's SupplierPay Initiative Expands; 20 Additional Companies Pledge to Strengthen America's Small Businesses
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/supplierpay_pledge.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/17/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-supplierpay-initiative-expands-20-additiona
11/21/14 Presidential Memorandum — Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/21/presidential-memorandum-creating-welcoming-communities-and-fully-integra
11/21/14 Presidential Memorandum — Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immigrant Visa System for the 21st Century
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/21/presidential-memorandum-modernizing-and-streamlining-us-immigrant-visa-s
12/16/14 Presidential Memorandum — Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition (waters of Bristol Bay, Alaska)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/16/presidential-memorandum-withdrawal-certain-areas-united-states-outer-con
12/17/14 President Obama Charts a New Course on US – Cuba Relations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/foreign-policy/cuba
12/18/14 Executive Order — Establishment of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing to strengthen community policing and strengthen trust among law enforcement officers and the communities they serve
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/18/executive-order-establishment-presidents-task-force-21st-century-policin
12/19/14 Executive Order— Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/19/executive-order-adjustments-certain-rates-pay
4/29/15 White House 40 to None Day event with youths, service providers, advocates, policymakers, and researchers to discuss the strongest approaches for serving youth in need, and the path forward, leveraging better data and evidence and strengthening our partnerships to end youth homelessness.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/05/08/ending-youth-homelessness
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Winning Business Investment in the United States
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/winning_business_investment_in_the_united_states.pdf
https://propresobama.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/selectus-investment-success.png
Taking Action to Support LGBT Workplace Equality is Good For Business
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/21/fact-sheet-taking-action-support-lgbt-workplace-equality-good-business-0
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/21/executive-order-further-amendments-executive-order-11478-equal-employmen
President Obama signs the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (H.R. 803) is a bill that would consolidate job training programs under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) into a single funding stream. It also would amend the Wagner-Peyser Act, reauthorize adult-education programs, and reauthorize programs under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The various job programs would be authorized for six years with a requirement that they record and report on how many people get new jobs through their participation in the programs.
https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/803
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/22/fact-sheet-ready-work-glance-job-driven-training-and-american-opportunit
2012 Tribe passes enhanced sentencing law. Cherokee recently passed legislation during the August Session of Tribal Council which updated the Cherokee Criminal Code and finalized the full implementation of the enhanced sentencing authority granted by the federal Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010. Cherokee Ordinance Number 182 was passed by Tribal Council on Aug. 2 and ratified by Principal Chief Michell Hicks on Aug. 16. The Ordinance increased the maximum possible punishment of all felony-equivalent tribal crimes from one year to three years imprisonment and from a $5,000 to a $15,000 fine. The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 granted enhanced, felony-level sentencing authority to tribal courts by increasing the maximum possible punishment that a tribal court may hand down from one year of imprisonment and a $5,000 fine per offense to three years of imprisonment and a $15,000 fine per offense, with a provision for stacking up to three offenses in certain criminal cases which could result in a maximum possible punishment of nine years of imprisonment (25 U.S.C. § 1302). Before tribes can enact legislation to implement this enhanced punishment, the federal law requires that the tribal courts have law-trained judges, provide defendants with the right to effective assistance of counsel and indigent defendants with court appointed counsel, and make the tribal laws publically available, among other things. The Cherokee Court has met all of these requirements, even for many years prior to the enactment of the Tribal Law and Order Act.
http://www.webcitation.org/6FmBkL7iB
https://theonefeather.com/2012/08/tribe-passes-enhanced-sentencing-law/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_Law_and_Order_Act_of_2010
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-signing-tribal-law-and-order-act
The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 is a law, signed into effect by President Obama, that expands the punitive abilities of tribal courts across the nation. The law allows tribal courts operating in Indian country to increase jail sentences handed down in criminal cases. This was a major step toward improving enforcement and justice in Indian country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_Law_and_Order_Act_of_2010
The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit constitutes the largest single engagement by any U.S. President with Africa. The theme of the Summit is "Investing in the Next Generation." Focusing on the next generation is at the core of a government's responsibility and work, and this Summit is an opportunity to discuss ways of stimulating growth, unlocking opportunities, and creating an enabling environment for the next generation. Focusing on the next generation is at the core of a government's responsibility and work, and is an opportunity to discuss ways of stimulating growth, unlocking opportunities, and creating an enabling environment for the next generation. The Summit will focus on trade and investment in Africa and highlight America's commitment to Africa's security, its democratic development, and its people. At the same time, it will highlight the depth and breadth of the United States' commitment to the African continent, advance our shared priorities and enable discussion of concrete ideas to deepen the partnership. At its core, this Summit is about fostering stronger ties between the United States and Africa. The Summit will include approximately 50 African heads of state and government as well as the Chairperson of the African Union, a range of U.S. and African civil society and business leaders, young African leaders, and Members of Congress. The presence of so many African leaders in the nation's capital provides an historic opportunity to further strengthen ties with our African partners and highlight America's longstanding commitment to investing in Africa's development and its people.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/us-africa-leaders-summit
U.S.–African Cooperation on Global Health
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/fact-sheet-us-african-cooperation-global-health
U.S.-African Cooperation in Advancing Gender Equality
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/fact-sheet-us-african-cooperation-advancing-gender-equality
Shared Investment in Youth
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/fact-sheet-shared-investment-youth
U.S. Support for Democratic Institutions, Good Governance, and Human Rights in Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/fact-sheet-us-support-democratic-institutions-good-governance-and-human-
Investing in African Trade for our Common Future
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/fact-sheet-investing-african-trade-our-common-future
The Doing Business in Africa Campaign
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/05/fact-sheet-doing-business-africa-campaign
Presidential Memorandum — Establishing a Comprehensive Approach to Expanding Sub-Saharan Africa's Capacity for Trade and Investment
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/presidential-memorandum-establishing-comprehensive-approach-expanding-su
Executive Order –Establishing the President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/05/executive-order-establishing-presidents-advisory-council-doing-business-
Powering Africa: Increasing Access to Power in Sub-Saharan Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/05/fact-sheet-powering-africa-increasing-access-power-sub-saharan-africa
U.S. Engagement on Climate Change and Resilience in Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/fact-sheet-us-engagement-climate-change-and-resilience-africa
U.S.-African Cooperation on Food Security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/04/fact-sheet-us-african-cooperation-food-security
U.S. Support for Peacekeeping in Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/06/fact-sheet-us-support-peacekeeping-africa
Security Governance Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/06/fact-sheet-security-governance-initiative
Partnering to Counter Terrorism in Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/06/fact-sheet-partnering-counter-terrorism-africa
Investments Announced at Symposium for African Spouses Hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama and Former Lady Laura Bush
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/06/investments-announced-symposium-african-spouses-hosted-first-lady-michel
U.S.-Africa Business Forum Hosted by U.S. Department of Commerce and Bloomberg Philanthropies the forum focuses on strengthening trade and financial ties between the United States and Africa – Mandarin Oriental, Washington, D.C.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/image/usabf_agenda_website.pdf
H.R. 3230 – Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.R.3230:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans%27_Access_to_Care_through_Choice,_Accountability,_and_Transparency_Act_of_2014
Tribal leaders welcome Holder's voting access plan. Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:28 by RACHEL D'ORO, Associated Press. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday his office will consult with tribes across the country to develop ways to increase voting access for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Holder said the goal is to require state and local election officials to place at least one polling site in a location chosen by tribal governments in parts of the nation that include tribal lands. Barriers to voting, he said, include English-only ballots and inaccessible polling places.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/June/14-ag-613.html
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/news/politics/10019-tribal-leaders-welcome-holder-s-voting-access-plan
Promoting and Protecting Religious Freedom Around the Globe
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/08/10/fact-sheet-promoting-and-protecting-religious-freedom-around-globe
Obama Proclaims Río Grande del Norte a National Monument, Significant Site for Natives
http://www.riograndedelnorte.org/
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/26/obama-proclaims-rio-grande-del-norte-national-monument-significant-site-natives-148361
President Barack Obama Weekly Address: Continuing Work to Improve Community Policing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/15/weekly-address-continuing-work-improve-community-policing
May 18, 2015 10 Cities Making Real Progress Since the Launch of the 21st Century Policing Task Force
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/05/18/10-cities-making-real-progress-launch-21st-century-policing-task-force
12/02/2013 USDA Animal Care Creates Online Process for Submitting Animal Welfare Concerns
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/newsroom/2013/ac_news_12022013_3.shtml
12/02/2013 USDA Animal Care Provides Its Inspectors With New Guidance for Conducting Inspections
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/newsroom/2013/ac_news_12022013_2.shtml
10/24/2013 Animal Care Will Host Webinars to Discuss the Retail Pet Store Rule
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/retail_pet_stores.shtml
9/18/2013 USDA Announces Recent Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act Enforcement Actions
http://nvap.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/2013/09/enforcement_actions_aug2013.shtml
9/10/13 6 Tons of seized ivory to be crushed in Denver – Federal wildlife officials plan to crush more than 6 tons of seized ivory in Denver next month
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/6-tons-seized-ivory-crushed-133249566.html
9/10/13 USDA Restores Important Check and Balance on Retail Pet Sales to Ensure Health, Humane Treatment
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/6-tons-seized-ivory-crushed-133249566.html
President Obama Announces New Executive Actions to Fulfill our Promises to Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/26/remarks-president-american-legion-national-convention
http://www.va.gov/opa/docs/26-AUG-JOINT-FACT-SHEET-FINAL.pdf
8 Keys to Veterans Success on Campus
http://www.ed.gov/veterans-and-military-families/8-keys-success-sites
Food and Color Additives: Final Rules by Year
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/IngredientsAdditivesGRASPackaging/ucm047880.htm
President Obama and Estonian Prime Minister Roivas deliver remarks to U.S. and Estonian troops
Tallinn Airport Hangar, Tallinn, Estonia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/03/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-roivas-estonia-us-and-estonia
President Obama meets with Estonian President Ilves, Latvian President Berzins and Lithuania President Grybauskaite to discuss ongoing cooperation on regional security and policies that support economic growth, and to discuss collective defense
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/03/remarks-president-obama-people-estonia
The United States and Lithuania – NATO Allies and Global Partners
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/03/fact-sheet-united-states-and-lithuania-nato-allies-and-global-partners
The United States and Estonia – NATO Allies and Global Partners
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/03/fact-sheet-united-states-and-estonia-nato-allies-and-global-partners
2014 Annual Report available here, details some of the work that the Ex-IM did this year to support U.S. job growth and promote American economic leadership abroad. Here are some highlights of the report:
- Supported 164,000 American jobs
- About 90% of transactions directly supported U.S. small businesses
- Supported $27.5 billion in exports at no cost to American taxpayers
- Supported $10.7 billion in exports from U.S. small businesses
- A historically low default rate of 0.175% as of the end of FY14
- A record high of $2 billion in financing to support U.S. exports to sub-Saharan Africa
http://www.exim.gov/about/library/reports/annualreports/2014/Annual-Report-FY2014.cfm
http://www.exim.gov/newsandevents/releases/2014/Fiscal-Year-Strong.cfm
http://www.exim.gov/newsandevents/releases/2014/ExIm-Bank-Announces-675-Million-Generated-For-Taxpayers-in-2014.cfm
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act#2012.E2.80.932013_legislative_battle_and_reauthorization
New Rule for Innocent Spouse Relief
The two-year time limit no longer applies for many innocent spouse requests. Under this new provision, many taxpayers may qualify for retroactive relief.
http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Introduction-to-Innocent-Spouses
http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/New-Rule-for-Innocent-Spouse-Relief
Presidential Proclamation — Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, Constitution Week, 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/16/presidential-proclamation-constitution-day-and-citizenship-day-constitut
Presidential Proclamation — National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/18/presidential-proclamation-national-powmia-recognition-day-2014
Launch of the "It's On Us" Public Awareness Campaign to Help Prevent Campus Sexual Assault. Not Alone – Protecting Students from Sexual Assault
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/19/fact-sheet-launch-it-s-us-public-awareness-campaign-help-prevent-campus-
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/09/19/its-every-single-one-us
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/29/fact-sheet-not-alone-protecting-students-sexual-assault
http://www.notalone.gov/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/accomplishments.pdfhttps://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/report_0.pdf
President Obama attends a meeting of the Open Government Partnership U.N. Headquarters, New York, N.Y
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/fact-sheet-announcing-new-us-open-government-commitments-third-anniversa
President Obama chairs a United Nations Security Council summit on foreign terrorist fighters U.N. Headquarters, New York, N.Y
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/remarks-president-un-security-council-summit-foreign-terrorist-fighters
First Lady Lady Michelle Obama delivers the special keynote address at the UN's Global Education First Initiative's (GEFI) U.N. Headquarters, New York, N.Y
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/remarks-first-lady-united-nations-global-education-first-initiative
President Obama delivers remarks at the Climate Summit 2014 U.N. Headquarters, New York, N.Y
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/remarks-prepared-delivery-president-barack-obama-address-united-nations-
Announcing New U.S. Open Government Commitments on the Third Anniversary of the Open Government Partnership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/fact-sheet-announcing-new-us-open-government-commitments-third-anniversa
The U.S. Global Anticorruption Agenda
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/fact-sheet-us-global-anticorruption-agenda
President Obama Announces New Actions To Strengthen Global Resilience To Climate Change And Launches Partnerships To Cut Carbon Pollution
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/23/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-actions-strengthen-global-resil
Comprehensive U.S. Government Approach to Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Syria and the Broader Region
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/fact-sheet-comprehensive-us-government-approach-foreign-terrorist-fighte
President Obama holds a town hall meeting on American Manufacturing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/03/remarks-president-town-hall-manufacturing
Presidential Proclamation — National Manufacturing Day, 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/02/presidential-proclamation-national-manufacturing-day-2014
6/17/14 President Obama's Executive Action to Spur Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Revitalize American Manufacturing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-pen-and-phone-actions-spur-inno
President Obama signs a proclamation establishing the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/10/presidential-proclamation-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument
http://www.fs.fed.us/visit/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument
Getting Long-Term Unemployed Americans Back to Work
- $170 Million in DOL Grants to Support Partnerships that Connect the Long-Term Unemployed to Work
- Progress on Business Efforts to Improve Recruiting and Hiring of Long-Term Unemployed
- Ensuring Federal Hiring Process Gives Long-Term Unemployed Job Applicants a Fair Shot
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/15/fact-sheet-getting-long-term-unemployed-americans-back-work
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/15/what-you-need-know-our-push-get-long-term-unemployed-americans-back-work
$150M available to states to implement or expand
job-driven training programs for laid-off workers. Up to $150 million in grants ranging from $500,000 to $6 million are being made available to states, territories and federally-recognized tribes through the Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Worker National Reserve fund.
http://www.dol.gov/cgi-bin/leave-dol.asp?exiturl=http://1.usa.gov/1pGRR2T&exitTitle=www.cfda.gov&fedpage=yeshttp://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ETA20140714.htm
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/best_practices_recruiting_longterm_unemployed.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/10/helping-long-term-unemployed-get-back-work
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/31/remarks-president-long-termhttp:/www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/31/remarks-president-long-term
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/wh_report_addressing_the_negative_cycle_of_long-term_unemployment_1-31-14_-_final3.pdf
Safeguarding Consumers' Financial Security. Today, the President is signing a new Executive Order directing the government to lead by example in securing transactions and sensitive data. The new BuySecure Initiative will provide consumers with more tools to secure their financial future by assisting victims of identity theft, improving the Government's payment security as a customer and a provider, and accelerating the transition to stronger security technologies and the development of next-generation payment security tools. During remarks at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the President will highlight steps by his Administration and the private sector to improve security. With over 100 million Americans falling victim to data breaches over the last year, and millions suffering from credit card fraud and identity crimes, there is a need to act — and to move our economy toward stronger, more secure technologies that better secure transactions and safeguard sensitive data. While there is no silver bullet to guarantee data security, the President is signing an Executive Order to implement enhanced security measures, including securing credit, debit, and other payment cards with microchips in lieu of basic magnetic strips, and PINs, such as those standard on consumer ATM cards. He is calling on all stakeholders to join the Administration and a number of major corporations in driving the economy toward more secure standards to safeguard consumer finances and reduce their chances of becoming victims of identity theft — America's fastest-growing crime. Finally today, the President will announce the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection later this year to promote partnership and innovation. The Summit will bring together major stakeholders on consumer financial protection issues to discuss how all members of our financial system can work together to further protect American consumers and their financial data, now and in the future. The President will also renew his call to Congress to enact overdue cybersecurity legislation that will help protect Americans — particularly by clarifying companies' obligations when sensitive data is breached. Leading by Example: Securing Payments Across the Economy. Federal Efforts to Transition to More Secure Payment Systems: Today, the Federal Government is making an enterprise-wide transition to more secure credit, debit, and other payment cards, as well as the retail payment terminals at government locations like the passport office, VA canteens, and national parks. These new systems will, at a minimum, meet the global security standard of more secure microchips to store card numbers instead of unencrypted magnetic strips, and secure PIN functionality, like the kind featured on most ATM cards. The goal is not just to ensure the security of doing retail business with the government, but also, through this increased demand, to help drive the market towards swifter adoption of stronger security standards. Institutions like the United States Postal Service have already made this transition across tens of thousands of retail facilities across the country. Making Chip and PIN Cards the Standard for the Federal Government: These "chip and PIN" cards, which have cut down on payment fraud considerably in other countries, will become the standard for Federal Government programs like SmartPay® and Direct Express®. We are working with these programs to ensure that we begin a replacement program on January 1, 2015, and will, within the calendar year, issue over one million new, more secure government payment cards. Updating to Chip and PIN Card Terminals in Federal Agencies Processing Consumer Sales: Every Federal agency processing consumer sales will actively replace any prior-generation card retail payment card terminals to those with new chip and PIN security features under a plan issued by Department of the Treasury, which establishes requirements that federal agencies must follow when receiving credit and debit card payments when using Treasury's collection system.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/17/executive-order-improving-security-consumer-financial-transactions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/17/fact-sheet-safeguarding-consumers-financial-security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/17/remarks-president-protecting-american-consumers
The U.S. Government's Response to Ebola at Home and Abroad
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/22/fact-sheet-us-government-s-response-ebola-home-and-abroad
Presidential Proclamation — United Nations Day, 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/23/presidential-proclamation-united-nations-day-2014
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard_and_James_Byrd,_Jr._Hate_Crimes_Prevention_Act
Infrastructure Investment
http://www.dot.gov/briefing-room/treasury-and-transportation-host-infrastructure-investment-summit
http://www.dot.gov/buildamerica
https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Documents/Expanding%20our%20Nation%27s%20Infrastructure%20through%20Innovative%20Financing.pdf
President Obama participates in a Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative town hall meeting
Yangon University, Rangoon, Burma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/14/remarks-president-obama-young-southeast-asian-leaders-initiative-town-ha
President Obama holds a civil society roundtable
U.S. Embassy, Rangoon, Burma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/14/remarks-president-obama-after-civil-society-roundtable
President Obama holds a press conference with Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi Residence, Rangoon, Burma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/14/remarks-president-obama-and-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-joint-press-confe
President Obama participates in an U.S.–ASEAN session
Myanmar International Convention Center – Naypyitaw, Burma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/13/remarks-president-obama-us-asean-summit-meeting
U.S. Assistance to Burma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/13/fact-sheet-us-assistance-burma
11/13/14 Opening of a Peace Corps Program in Burma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/13/statement-deputy-national-security-advisor-strategic-communications-ben-
11/13/14 U.S. and India Trade Facilitation Agreement at the World Trade Organization (WTO)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/13/statement-press-secretary-agreement-between-united-states-and-india-trad
11/13/14 FACT SHEET: New Initiative to Improve Labor Rights in Burma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/13/fact-sheet-new-initiative-improve-labor-rights-burma
11/13/14 FACT SHEET: The President's Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/14/fact-sheet-presidents-young-southeast-asian-leaders-initiative
11/13/14 Joint Statement by The The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the United States of America, Japan, Denmark and the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Labor Rights and Practices in Myanmar
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/13/joint-statement
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11/10/14 Supporting American Job Growth And Strengthening Ties By Extending U.S./China Visa Validity for Tourists, Business Travelers, and Students
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/10/fact-sheet-supporting-american-job-growth-and-strengthening-ties-extendi
11/11/14 APEC Efforts to Support Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, Recovery, and Resilience
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-apec-efforts-support-emergency-and-disaster-preparedness-reco
11/11/14 APEC Leaders Commit to Protect the Environment
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-apec-leaders-commit-protect-environment
11/11/14 Key Infrastructure Initiatives Supporting U.S. Economic Priorities Work in the G20 and APEC
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-key-infrastructure-initiatives-supporting-us-economic-priorit
11/11/14 APEC Breaks Down Barriers to Women's Economic Participation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-apec-breaks-down-barriers-women-s-economic-participation
11/11/14 Promoting Energy Security and Clean, Efficient, and Sustainable Energy Development in the APEC Region
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-promoting-energy-security-and-clean-efficient-and-sustainable
11/11/14 Fulfilling Leaders' Instructions on Quality in Higher Education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-fulfilling-leaders-instructions-quality-higher-education
11/11/14 Leading the Fight Against Corruption and Bribery
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-leading-fight-against-corruption-and-bribery
11/11/14 APEC Leaders Agree on Actions to Promote Regional Economic Integration and Trade
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-apec-leaders-agree-actions-promote-regional-economic-integrat
11/11/14 U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change and Clean Energy Cooperation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-us-china-joint-announcement-climate-change-and-clean-energy-c
11/11/14 U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/us-china-joint-announcement-climate-change
Presidential Proclamation — Veterans Day, 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/07/presidential-proclamation-veterans-day-2014
White House Report: Women and Girls of Color: Addressing Challenges and Expanding Opportunity
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/12/white-house-report-women-and-girls-color-addressing-challenges-and-expan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/cwg_women_and_girls_of_color_report_112014.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/11/13/expanding-opportunity-and-addressing-unique-challenges-facing-women-and-girls-color
11/15/14 United States Support for Global Efforts to Combat Carbon Pollution and Build Resilience
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/15/fact-sheet-united-states-support-global-efforts-combat-carbon-pollution-
11/15/14 United States and Japan Announce $4.5 Billion in Pledges to Green Climate Fund (GCF)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/15/united-states-and-japan-announce-45-billion-pledges-green-climate-fund-g
Global Entrepreneurship Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/20/fact-sheet-global-entrepreneurship-summit
Harnessing the Power of Technology for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/28/harnessing-power-data-technology-and-innovation-clean-energy-economy
11/19/14 ConnectED to the Future
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/19/fact-sheet-connected-future
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/14/white-house-host-connected-future-event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/education/k-12/connected
4/30/15 Press Release: President Obama Announces Open eBooks and ConnectED Library Challenge
http://www.imls.gov/president_obama_announces_open_ebooks_and_connected_library_challenge.aspx
4/30/15 White House Fact Sheet: Spreading the Joy of Reading to More Children and Young Adults
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/30/fact-sheet-spreading-joy-reading-more-children-and-young-adults
4/30/15 Watch on White House Live: President Obama Participates in a "Virtual Field Trip" with Students Around the Country
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/live/president-obamaparticipates-virtual-field-trip-students-around-country
The White House Tribal Nations Conference 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/03/fact-sheet-white-house-tribal-nations-conference
The Attorney General hosted the first such Building Community Trust roundtable meeting at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Monday. There, he discussed President Obama's announcement to create the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, the federal review on the use of military-style equipment for local law enforcement, and the new Community Policing Initiative to fund up to 50,000 additional body-worn cameras for law enforcement agencies. At a community town hall meeting held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, the Attorney General announced that the department will soon release new guidelines on the use of racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-eric-holder-delivers-remarks-during-white-house-tribal-nations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/12/01/building-trust-between-communities-and-local-police
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/18/executive-order-establishment-presidents-task-force-21st-century-policin
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-holder-hold-roundtable-meetings-five-more-cities-part-justice-departments
Task Force on 21st Century Policing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/18/executive-order-establishment-presidents-task-force-21st-century-policin
Invest in US: The White House Summit on Early Childhood Education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/10/fact-sheet-invest-us-white-house-summit-early-childhood-education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/10/remarks-president-early-education-summit
President Obama on Plan to Close the Prison at Guantanamo Bay
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/23/remarks-president-plan-close-prison-guantanamo-bay
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/23/background-press-call-closing-prison-guantanamo-bay
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/06/244494.htm
On 22 January 2009, President Obama stated that he ordered the government to suspend prosecutions of Guantánamo Bay detainees for 120 days to review all the detainees' cases to determine whether and how each detainee should be prosecuted. A day later, Obama signed an executive order stating that Guantánamo Detention Camp would be closed within the year. His plan encountered a setback when incoming officials of his administration discovered that there were no comprehensive files concerning many of the detainees, so that merely assembling the available evidence about them could take weeks or months. In May, Obama announced that the prosecutions would be revived. On 20 May 2009, the United States Senate passed an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2346) by a 90–6 vote to block funds needed for the transfer or release of prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. In November 2009, President Obama admitted that the "specific deadline" he had set for closure of the Guantánamo Bay camp would be "missed." He said the camp would probably be closed later in 2010, but did not set a specific deadline.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the_press_office/ClosureOfGuantanamoDetentionFacilities/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/2346
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#President_Obama.27s_attempt_to_close_the_camp
President Obama turned the page on these policies when he took office and during week one banned the use of torture and closed the detention and interrogation program. It was right to end these practices for a simple but powerful reason: they were at odds with our values. They are not who we are, and they're not who or what we had to become, because the most powerful country on earth doesn't have to choose between protecting our security and promoting our values.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the_press_office/EnsuringLawfulInterrogations/
President Obama Proposes New Funding to Build Resilience of Alaska's Communities and Combat Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-proposes-new-funding-build-resilience-alaskas
The Department of the Interior released a revised Comprehensive Conservation Plan to better sustain and manage the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — and President Obama took it a step further and announced his plans to ask Congress to designate the Coastal Plain and other core areas of the refuge as wilderness:
http://www.fws.gov/home/arctic-ccp/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/21/executive-order-enhancing-coordination-national-efforts-arctic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/01/25/president-obama-calls-congress-protect-arctic-refuge-wilderness
President Obama Protects Alaska's Bristol Bay From Future Oil and Gas Drilling
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/16/president-obama-protects-alaska-s-bristol-bay-future-oil-and-gas-drillin
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/16/presidential-memorandum-withdrawal-certain-areas-united-states-outer-con
Presidential Task Force releases action plan to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and seafood fraud. New Recommendations to End Pirate Fishing and Seafood Fraud
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/20150315-presidential-task-force-releases-action-plan-to-combat-illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishingaand-seafood-fraud.html
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-29628.pdf
New Treasury Department Asset Regulations in regard to Cuba
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2015-00632.pdf
New Commerce Department Regulations Changing U.S. Export Policy On Cuba
http://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2015/01/15/statement-us-commerce-secretary-pritzker-new-commerce-department-regu
6/1/15 President Obama delivers a statement on Re-establishing Diplomatic Relations with Cuba
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/01/statement-president-re-establishment-diplomatic-relations-cuba
7/1/15 Presidential Letter — Re-establishing Diplomatic Relations and Permanent Diplomatic Missions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions
3/16/16 Readout of the President's Meeting with Cuban-American Leaders
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/16/readout-presidents-meeting-cuban-american-leaders
Charting a New Course on Cuba
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/17/fact-sheet-charting-new-course-cuba
Statement by the President on Cuba Policy Changes
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/17/statement-president-cuba-policy-changes
Following President Obama's call on Congress to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10, states, cities and counties, and business leaders have taken action on their own to increase wages across the country. And on February 12, President Obama signed Executive Order 13658, requiring that workers on new Federal contracts be paid $10.10 an hour.
- 14 States Passed Minimum Wage Increases – and 7 Million Workers Are Set to Benefit From Increases Passed Since the President's Initial Call in 2013
- Cities and Counties Have Also Taken Steps to Raise Wages
- Businesses – Both Large and Small – Are Taking Action
- President Obama's Action will Ensure that All Employees of Federal Contractors are Paid at Least $10.10 an Hour
- Supporting Job Skills and Employment Opportunities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/11/07/keeping-minimum-wage
Combating Illegal Wildlife Trafficking Incorporated in Trade Agenda
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2014/June/USTR-Froman-Congressman-Meeks-Highlight-JFK-Airport-Hub-for-International-Trade
President Obama delivers remarks on new initiatives he will propose to help Americans buy a home
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/07/fact-sheet-making-homeownership-more-accessible-and-sustainable
Making Homeownership More Accessible and Sustainable
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/07/fact-sheet-making-homeownership-more-accessible-and-sustainable
Tuition-Free Community College for Responsible Students
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/09/fact-sheet-white-house-unveils-america-s-college-promise-proposal-tuitio
President Obama Announces New Manufacturing Innovation Hub in Knoxville, Tennessee
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-manufacturing-innovation-hub-kn
President Obama delivers remarks on making affordable, high-speed Internet available nationwide
Cedar Falls Utilities, Cedar Falls, Iowa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/14/remarks-president-promoting-community-broadband
President Obama delivers remarks on cybersecurity, including ways of getting the private sector and federal government to voluntarily share more cybersecurity information.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/13/remarks-president-national-cybersecurity-communications-integration-cent
President Obama delivers remarks on tackling identity theft and improving consumer and student privacy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/12/remarks-president-federal-trade-commission
Cybersecurity and Internet Policy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/technology#id-1
A Modernized Patent System
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/technology#id-2
Cybersecurity Legislative and Other Cybersecurity Efforts
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/13/securing-cyberspace-president-obama-announces-new-cybersecurity-legislat
Promoting Innovation by Improving Consumers Confidence Online – BuySecure initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/17/executive-order-improving-security-consumer-financial-transactions
Announcing $25 million grant over the next five years to support cybersecurity education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/15/vice-president-biden-announces-25-million-funding-cybersecurity-educatio
Presidential Memorandum — Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/25/presidential-memorandum-establishment-cyber-threat-intelligence-integrat
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/25/fact-sheet-cyber-threat-intelligence-integration-center
Executive Order — "Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/01/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-engaging-significant-m
Cybersecurity National Action Plan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/09/fact-sheet-cybersecurity-national-action-plan
White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/13/fact-sheet-white-house-summit-cybersecurity-and-consumer-protection
Executive Order Promoting Private Sector Cybersecurity Information Sharing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/13/executive-order-promoting-private-sector-cybersecurity-information-shari
Presidential Memorandum — Enhancing Workplace Flexibilities and Work-Life Program
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/23/presidential-memorandum-enhancing-workplace-flexibilities-and-work-life-
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/14/fact-sheet-white-house-unveils-new-steps-strengthen-working-families-acr
Presidential Memorandum — Modernizing Federal Leave Policies for Childbirth, Adoption and Foster Care to Recruit and Retain Talent and Improve Productivit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/15/presidential-memorandum-modernizing-federal-leave-policies-childbirth-ad
Presidential Memorandum that established a "right to request" flexible workplace arrangements for Federal workers and directed Federal agencies to expand flexible workplace policies to the maximum possible extent
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/23/presidential-memorandum-enhancing-workplace-flexibilities-and-work-life-
President Obama delivers remarks on Working Families in a 21st Century Economy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/15/remarks-president-working-families-21st-century-economy
White House Summit on Working Families
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/23/remarks-president-obama-white-house-summit-working-families-june-23-2014
Administration Takes Steps Forward on Climate Action Plan by Announcing Actions to Cut Methane Emissions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/14/fact-sheet-administration-takes-steps-forward-climate-action-plan-anno-1
Increasing Investment in U.S. Roads, Ports and Drinking Water Systems Through Innovative Financing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/16/fact-sheet-increasing-investment-us-roads-ports-and-drinking-water-syste
India-U.S. Delhi Declaration of Friendship
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/25/india-us-delhi-declaration-friendship
U.S. and India Climate and Clean Energy Cooperation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/25/fact-sheet-us-and-india-climate-and-clean-energy-cooperation
President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/30/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-precision-medicine-initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/01/21/precision-medicine-improving-health-and-treating-disease
New Patient-Focused Commitments to Advance the President's Precision Medicine Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/08/fact-sheet-new-patient-focused-commitments-advance-president%E2%80%99s-precision
Progress on the President's Precision Medicine Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/11/09/releasing-privacy-and-trust-principles-precision-medicine-initiative
Administration Announces New Actions to Advance the President's Precision Medicine
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/06/fact-sheet-administration-announces-new-actions-advance-presidents
Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act. The Act will:
- Increase access to menal health care by, amoung other things, creating a peer support and community outreach pilot program to assist transitioning service members as well as a one-stop, interactive website of avaiable resources.
- Bettter meet the demand for mental hearlth care by stating a pilot program to repay the loan debt of students in psychiatry so itis easier to recruit them to waork at the VA.
- Boost the accountability of mental health care by requiring an annual evaluation of DOD and VA suicide-prevention practies and programs.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/203
Suicide Prevention
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/champions/suicide-prevention
White House Task Force On Military And Veterans Mental Health
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/2013_interim_report_of_the_interagency_task_force_on_military_and_veterans_mental_health.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/nrap_for_eo_on_mental_health_august_2013.pdf
President Obama delivers remarks at The White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/18/remarks-president-closing-summit-countering-violent-extremism
Remarks by the President at U.N. Security Council Summit on Foreign Terrorist Fighters
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/remarks-president-un-security-council-summit-foreign-terrorist-fighters
President Obama: Our fight against violent extremism
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-obama-terrorism-conference-20150218-story.html
The White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/18/fact-sheet-white-house-summit-countering-violent-extremism
Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/empowering_local_partners.pdf
Launching the Every Kid in a Park Initiative and Designating New National Monuments. As part of President Obama's commitment to protect our Nation's unique outdoor spaces and ensure that every American has the opportunity to visit and enjoy them, today he will launch an "Every Kid in a Park" initiative that will provide all fourth grade students and their families with free admission to National Parks and other federal lands and waters for a full year. He will also announce the creation of three new National Monuments across the country. The President will make the announcements near the site of the historic Pullman town in Chicago, a location iconic for its history of labor unrest and civil rights advances, which will be the City's first National Park Service (NPS) unit. He also will announce that he will designate Honouliuli National Monument in Hawaii, the site of an internment camp where Japanese American citizens, resident immigrants, and prisoners of war were held captive during World War II, and Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado, an historic site of extraordinary beauty with world-class recreational opportunities that attract visitors from around the globe. Together, these monuments will help tell the story of significant events in American history and protect unique natural resources for the benefit of all Americans.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/19/fact-sheet-launching-every-kid-park-initiative-and-designating-new-natio
Middle Class Economics: Strengthening Retirement Security by Cracking Down on Backdoor Payments and Hidden Fees
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/23/fact-sheet-middle-class-economics-strengthening-retirement-security-crac
First Lady Michelle Obama Announces New Commitments To The U.S. Government's Let Girls Learn Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/13/fact-sheet-first-lady-michelle-obama-announces-new-commitments-us
Updated Guidance for First Lady Michelle Obama and the Let Girls Learn Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/24/updated-guidance-first-lady-michelle-obama-and-let-girls-learn
Bringing Marginalized Girls into Focus in STEM and CTE Education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/01/16/front-and-center-bringing-marginalized-girls-focus-stem-and-cte-education
Let Girls Learn
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/LetGirlsLearn
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/image/files/let_girls_learn_fact_sheet_03032015.pdf
http://www.usaid.gov/letgirlslearn
Let Girls Learn Peace Corps initiative
https://letgirlslearn.peacecorps.gov/
Let Girls Learn.
- The Empowering Adolescent Girls to Lead through Education (EAGLE) project
- In Liberia, USAID works to support over 7,000 young and adolescent-aged girls through primary school enrollment, attendance, and retention in 60 primary schools
- USAID's Girls Empowerment through Education and Health Activity (ASPIRE)
- USAID/Jordan provides training and materials to supervisors and teachers
- In El Salvador, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is investing $100.7 million to improve the quality of education and skills development
- In Georgia, MCC is investing $122.5 million to improve the quality of education in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields
- USAID, in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Burkle Center, launched a global communications campaign to highlight opportunities for individuals to take action to support girls' education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/03/fact-sheet-president-obama-and-first-lady-michelle-obama-announce-new-wh
In support of the effort, USAID also announced over $230 million for new programs to support education around the world. Then, even if they can reach a school, they may not have the trained teachers, adequate materials, or support they need to learn to read, write, and do basic math. Recent events in Nigeria focused the world's concern on their plight. It's time to Let Girls Learn. Let Girls Learn is an effort by the United States Government to provide the public with meaningful ways to help all girls to get a quality education. It is led by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead U.S. Government Agency working to end extreme poverty and promote resilient, democratic societies. In support of the effort, USAID also announced $231.6 million for new programs to support primary and secondary education and safe learning in Nigeria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Jordan, as well as support for Guatemala's ongoing, successful efforts to improve quality of education for under-served populations.
http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/june-20-2014-broad-coalition-celebrities-athletes-non-profits-join-usaid-let-girls-learn
Prepared Remarks of First Lady Michelle Obama for International Women of Courage Award
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/05/prepared-remarks-first-lady-michelle-obama-international-women-courage-a
President Obama delivers remarks to commemorate the
50th Anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' Selma to Montgomery Marches
Selma, Alabama
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/07/remarks-president-50th-anniversary-selma-montgomery-marches
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/civil-rights/selma
http://www.nps.gov/semo/index.htm
White House Announces Doubling of TechHire Communities, and New Steps to Give More Students and Workers Tech Skills to Fuel the Next Generation of American Innovation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/09/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-doubling-techhire-communities-and-new
Expanding the Tech Economies of Communities across the Country
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/27/fact-sheet-expanding-tech-economies-communities-across-country
TechHire. . To kick off TechHire, 21 regions, with over 120,000 open technology jobs and more than 300 employer partners in need of this workforce, are announcing plans to work together to new ways to recruit and place applicants based on their actual skills and to create more fast track tech training opportunities. The President is challenging other communities across the country to follow their lead.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/technology/techhire
WhiteHouse.gov/TechHire
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-launches-new-techhire-initiative
Presidential Memorandum — Student Aid Bill of Rights: Taking Action to Ensure Strong Consumer Protections for Student Loan Borrowers
President Obama proposed a new Student Aid Bill of Rights that outlines a series of new actions that direct the Department of Education, Department of Treasury, Office of Management and Budget, Office of Science and Technology Policy and Domestic Policy Council, working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Social Security Administration, to make paying for higher education an easier and fairer experience for millions of Americans.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/10/presidential-memorandum-student-aid-bill-rights
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks on the importance both countries place on international girls education
Iikura Guest House, Tokyo, Japan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/19/remarks-first-lady-discussion-mrs-abe-and-students-importance-girls-educ
Obama Administration Extends Application Deadline for the Making Home Affordable Program
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl1959.aspx
Obama Administration Announces Additional Support for Targeted Foreclosure-Prevention Programs to Help Homeowners Struggling with Unemployment
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1042.aspx
Obama Administration Approves State Plans For $600 Million of 'Hardest Hit Fund' Foreclosure Prevention Assistance
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg813.aspx
Obama Administration Approves State Plans for Use of $1.5 Billion in 'Hardest Hit Fund' Foreclosure-Prevention Funding
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg757.aspx
Obama Administration Announces Second Round of Assistance for Hardest-Hit Housing Markets
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg618.aspx
MHA has been extended until December 2015.
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/about-mha/latest-news/Pages/Obama-Administration-Extends-Deadline-for-Making-Home-Affordable-Program.aspx
http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Making-Home-Affordable-Five-Years-Later.aspx
Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA)
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/programs/exit-gracefully/Pages/hafa.aspx
http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/2009218954476942.aspx
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/programs/lower-payments/Pages/pra.aspx
President Obama hosts The 5th Annual
White House Science Fair
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/23/remarks-president-white-house-science-fair
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/23/new-details-president-obama-hosts-5th-white-house-science-fair
President Obama Announces Over $240 Million in New STEM Commitments at the 2015 White House Science Fair
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/23/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-over-240-million-new-stem-commitmen
Progress Toward Building a Safer, Stronger Financial System and Protecting Consumers from Unfair and Abusive Practices
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/26/fact-sheet-progress-toward-building-safer-stronger-financial-system-and-
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, launched the nation's first program for supervising "non-bank" financial services, an extension of their bank supervision program that began last July. (A non-bank is a company that provides consumer financial services, but doesn't take deposits or have a bank, thrift, or credit union charter.) Under this new program, non-banks like payday lenders, as well as private mortgage companies and private education lenders, will be regulated and subject to federal oversight to ensure they play by the rules and don't take advantage of consumers. CFPB will be able to establish regulations that require payday lenders to disclose borrowers' obligations and responsibilities in clear, easy to understand terms, so that people know what they are agreeing to when taking out a payday loan.
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/the-cfpb-launches-its-nonbank-supervision-program/
Parameters for a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/parametersforajointcomprehenisveplanofaction.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/02/parameters-joint-comprehensive-plan-action-regarding-islamic-republic-ir
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/02/statement-president-framework-prevent-iran-obtaining-nuclear-weapon
President Obama participates in a town hall with young leaders
University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/09/remarks-president-obama-town-hall-young-leaders-americas
U.S. Participation in the 7th Summit of the Americas
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/11/fact-sheet-us-participation-7th-summit-americas
U.S.-CARICOM Summit – Deepening Energy Cooperation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/09/fact-sheet-us-caricom-summit-deepening-energy-cooperation
The President's Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative and Programs to Support Youth Development in Central America and the Caribbean
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/09/fact-sheet-president-s-young-leaders-americas-initiative-and-programs-su
President Obama hosts a White House 'Champions of Change' Working Families event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/16/remarks-president-working-families-champions-change-event
President Obama participates in BlogHer and SheKnows Town Hall
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/15/remarks-president-working-mothers-town-hall
Presidential Proclamation — National Equal Pay Day, 2015
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/13/presidential-proclamation-national-equal-pay-day-2015
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/equal_pay_task_force.pdf
Champions of Change: Native American Youth Leaders
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/champions/native-american-youth-leaders/
Framework to End Youth Homelessness
http://usich.gov/resources/uploads/asset_library/USICH_Youth_Framework__FINAL_02_13_131.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/05/08/ending-youth-homelessness
Generation Indigenous Youth Challenge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/02/12/white-house-launches-generation-indigenous-native-youth-challenge
DOI, EPA, NOAA announced Resilient Lands and Waters Initiative to prepare natural resources for climate change
DOI, EPA, NOAA announced Resilient Lands and Waters Initiative to prepare natural resources for climate change
New Steps to Protect People, Places and Local Economies from Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/22/fact-sheet-celebrating-earth-day-new-steps-protect-people-places-and-loc
President Obama's Climate Action Plan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/25/progress-report-president-obama-s-climate-action-plan
USDA Secretary Vilsack Announces Regional Hubs to Help Agriculture, Forestry Mitigate the Impacts of a Changing Climate
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/02/0016.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent
Obama Administration Announces Actions to Protect Communities from the Health Impacts of Climate Change at White House Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/23/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-actions-protect-communities
Administration Announces New Commitments in Support of President Obama's Upskill Initiative to Empower Workers with Education and Training
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/24/fact-sheet-administration-announces-new-commitments-support-president-ob
http://www.upskillamerica.org/press-release-leading-employers-commit-to-boost-worker-education-job-training-to-expand-economic-opportunity-for-24-million-american-frontline-workers/
http://www.upskillamerica.org/upskilling-employerhandbook/
https://www.ced.org/pdf/Report_-_CED_-_The_Role_of_Business_in_Promoting_Educational_Attainment.pdf
http://www.hrpolicyfoundation.org/OurWork/TalentSustainability
White House UpSkill Summit. Leading Employers Commit to Boost Worker Education, Job Training to Expand Economic Opportunity for 24 Million American Frontline Workers.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/fact-sheet-addendum.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/01/26/what-theyre-saying-businesses-are-ready-join-president-upskill-america
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/21/remarks-president-middle-class-economics-boise-id
First Lady Michelle Obama and Mrs. Akie Abe deliver remarks at a school-wide assembly
Great Falls Elementary, Great Falls, Virginia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/28/remarks-first-lady-michelle-obama-and-mrs-akie-abe-japan-school-visit
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address to the Class of 2015
Tuskegee University, Daniel "Chappie" James Center, Tuskegee, Alabama
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/09/remarks-first-lady-tuskegee-university-commencement-address
National Day Of Renewal And Reconciliation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/national-day-renewal-and-reconciliation-2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Renewal_and_Reconciliation
Executive Order: Use of project labor agreements for federal construction projects.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the_press_office/EXECUTIVEORDERUSEOFPROJECTLABORAGREEMENTSFORFEDERALCONSTRUCTIONPROJECTS/
Spark Global Entrepreneurship
http://www.commerce.gov/media/photo/sparksealcolorpng
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/06/president-obama-recognize-emerging-global-entrepreneurs
Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship
http://www.commerce.gov/PAGE
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/06/president-obama-recognize-emerging-global-entrepreneurs
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI)
https://youngafricanleaders.state.gov/yali-africa/
President Obama delivers remarks at the White House Emerging Global Entrepreneurs Event
South Court Auditorium
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/11/remarks-president-global-entrepreneurship-event
President Obama joins leaders from faith groups, public and private organizations in a panel discussion at the 'Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty'
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/12/remarks-president-conversation-poverty-georgetown-university
http://www.georgetown.edu/news/poverty-summit-2015-with-obama.html
The President's Global Development Council's Second Report
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/15/fact-sheet-president-s-global-development-council-s-second-report
U.S.- Gulf Cooperation Council Camp David Joint Statement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/14/us-gulf-cooperation-council-camp-david-joint-statement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/14/annex-us-gulf-cooperation-council-camp-david-joint-statement
President Obama's Plan for Early Education for all Americans
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/13/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-plan-early-education-all-americans
First Lady Michelle Obama for White House Convening on Creating Opportunity for Native Youth
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/08/prepared-remarks-first-lady-michelle-obama-white-house-convening-creatin
Remarks by the President at the Cannon Ball Flag Day Celebration
Standing Rock Indian Reservation Cannon Ball, North Dakota
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/13/remarks-president-cannon-ball-flag-day-celebration
The President Barack And First Lady Have Lunch With Standing Rock Sioux Youth
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photo/2014/11/president-barack-and-first-lady-have-lunch-standing-rock-sioux-youth
EPA & U.S. Army announce clarification protection for US Waters
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/21b8983ffa5d0e4685257dd4006b85e2/62295cddd6c6b45685257e52004fac97!OpenDocument
Lincoln – The White House Red-Tailed Hawk
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/06/01/white-house-grounds-have-new-feathered-visitor
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address
to the Class of 2015
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Preparatory High School
Chicago, Illinois
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/09/remarks-first-lady-martin-luther-king-jr-preparatory-high-school-commenc
President Obama annouces a Presidential Memorandum increasing the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument ocean preserve to 782,000 square miles (2,030,000 km2), making it the largest ocean preserve in the world
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/17/presidential-memorandum-comprehensive-framework-combat-illegal-unreporte
New Commitments in Support of the President's Nation of Makers Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/12/fact-sheet-new-commitments-support-president%E2%80%99s-nation-makers-initiative
The White House announces the winners of it's first-ever 3D-printed ornament challenge.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/12/03/announcing-winners-first-ever-white-house-3d-printed-ornament-challenge
Fashion Workshop The First Lady held a fashion workshop highlighting the growing role of makers and new technologies in the creative economy.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/10/First-Lady-Fashion-Workshop-Highlights-Makers-and-Technologies
The Make Schools Alliance Higher education institutions respond to the President's call to support making on college campuses.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/12/10/higher-education-institutions-respond-president-s-call-support-making-college-campus
Making Makers in Cleveland Case Western is providing a makerspace and innovation center to give students, staff, faculty and members of the public the tools they need to create, build and invent.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/12/11/making-makers-cleveland
Making for a Stronger Africa Young African Leaders joined the US Global Development Lab and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy at Fab Lab DC to discuss the role of making in Africa's economic and community development.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/08/19/making-stronger-africa
Presidential Proclamation — National Week of Making, 2015
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/11/national-week-making-2015
Maker Faire President Obama hosted the first-ever Maker Faire on June 18, 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/18/fact-sheet-president-obama-host-first-ever-white-house-maker-faire
White House Science-based Pollinator Research Action Plan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/Pollinator%20Research%20Action%20Plan%202015.pdf
President Obama issued a memorandum directing U.S. government agencies to take additional steps to protect and restore domestic populations of pollinators, including honey bees, native bees, birds, bats, and butterflies – critical contributors to our nation's economy, food system, and environmental health.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/20/presidential-memorandum-creating-federal-strategy-promote-health-honey-b
Remarks by The First Lady at The White House Kitchen Garden Harvest Event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/03/remarks-first-lady-white-house-kitchen-garden-harvest-event
White House pollinator garden plants:
Amsonia, a plant in the dogbane family
Andropogon virginicus, a species of grass
Asclepias incarnata, a species of native milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa, a species of native milkweed
Asimina triloba, aka pawpaw
Aster divericatus, aka white wood aster, a plant in the Asteraceae family
Aster lateriflorus, aka calico aster, a plant in the Asteraceae family
Ceanothus americanus, a native shrub
Chelone glabra, aka white turtlehead, a plant in the plantain family
Clethra alnifolia, aka sweet pepperbrush, in the genus Clethra of the family Clethraceae
Coreopsis verticillata, a plant in the Asteraceae family
Eupatorium, aka Joe-Pye weeds, a plant in the Asteraceae family
Eragrostis spectabilis, s genus of the Poaceae grass family
Helenium, a plant in the Asteraceae family
Helianthus salicifolius, a species of sunflower/daisy
Heliopsis helianthoides, a plant in the Asteraceae family
Liatris spicata, dense blazing star or prairie gay feather, is an herbaceous perennial plant
Lindera benzoin, aka wild allspice, a plant in the family Lauraceae
Lobellia cardinalis, aka cardinal flower is a species of Lobelia
Panicum virgatum, aka switchgrass
Penstemon digitalis, aka foxglove beard-tongue, a plant in the plantain family
Phlox paniculata, a plant in the family Polemoniaceae
Pycnanthemum, in the mint family
Rudbeckia fulgida, aka orange coneflower, a plant in the Asteraceae family
Rudbeckia laciniata, a species of sunflower/daisy
Schizachyrium scoparium, a North American prairie grass
Solidago rugosa, a species of goldenrod
Solidago shortii, a species of goldenrod
Vernonia noveboracensis, a plant in the Asteraceae family
Vaccinium corymbosum, a species of blueberry native to eastern North America
First Lady Obama and the Presidential Delegation to the Milan Expo 2015 tour the expo exhibit
Expo 2015, Milan, Italy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/17/remarks-first-lady-us-delegation-milan-expo-2015-and-chef-john-besh-lets
http://www.expo2015.org/en/united-states-of-america
First Lady Michelle Obama hosts a roundtable discussion with representatives from the Research for Equitable Access and Learning Centre, Peace Corps, former prime minister of Australia Julia Gillard and students on expanding access to girls education around the world
Mulberry School for Girls, London, England
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/16/remarks-first-lady-and-julia-gillard-former-prime-minister-australia-let
Op-Ed by First Lady Michelle Obama: "Throw the School Gates Open to Girls Everywhere"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/16/op-ed-first-lady-michelle-obama-throw-school-gates-open-girls-everywhere
USDA Farm to Summer
http://www.fns.usda.gov/farmtoschool/farm-summer
The Summer Food Service Program
http://www.summerfood.usda.gov/
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Statements of World Religions on Climate Change
2006 Unitarian Universality: Threat of Global Warming/Climate Change
http://whitebearunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/uu-climate-change-statement.pdf
3/10/08 Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change
http://www.cfr.org/religion/southern-baptist-declaration-environment-climate-change/p15847
12/1/08 Bahai International Community: Seizing the Opportunity: Redefining the challenge of climate change
https://www.bic.org/index.php?q=statements/seizing-opportunity-redefining-challenge-climate-change
April 2009 Presbyterian Church USA – U.S. Energy Policy and Global Warming
http://www.pcusa.org/media/uploads/acswp/pdf/energyreport.pdf
June 2009 A Quaker response to the crisis of climate change
https://www.quaker.org.uk/quaker-response-crisis-climate-change
11/30/09 Dalai Lama Urges World to Act on Climate Change
http://www.dalailama.com/news/post/450-dalai-lama-urges-world-to-act-on-climate-change
September 2011 United Methodist Church Statement on Climate Change
http://www.ncipl.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/United-Methodist.pdf
2/29/12 Judaism and Climate Change: The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media
http://fore.yale.edu/climate-change/statements-from-world-religions/judaism/
4/19/12 Environment & Ecology in Islam
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/environment_ecology/
6/30/13 United Church Of Christ To Become First U.S. Denomination To Move Toward Divestment From Fossil Fuel Companies
http://www.ucc.org/gs2013-fossil-fuel-divestment-vote
5/30/14 Catholic – U.S. Catholic Bishops' Statement on Climate Change
http://www.ucc.org/gs2013-fossil-fuel-divestment-vote
6/10/14 Union Theological Seminary In The City Of New York Votes Unanimously To Divest From Fossil Fuels
https://utsnyc.edu/divestment/
6/28/14 Unitarian Universalist Association Joins Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
http://www.uua.org/news/press-release/unitarian-universalist-association-joins-fossil-fuel-divestment-movement
7/11/14 World Council of Churches rules out fossil fuel investments
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/11/world-council-of-churches-pulls-fossil-fuel-investments
9/18/14 First Sikh Statement on Climate Change
http://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/resources/religious-statements-on-climate-change/first-sikh-statement-climate-change/
9/19/14 Anglican Church of Canada, The Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada: A Pastoral Message on Climate Change
http://www..org/notice/pastoral-message-climate-change
9/23/14 Interfaith Climate Change Statement
http://interfaithclimate.org/the-statement
3/30/15 17 Anglican Bishops from all six continents have called for urgent prayer and action on the "unprecedented climate crisis
http://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/2015/03/17-anglican-bishops-from-all-six-continents-have-called-for-urgent-prayer-and-action-on-the-unprecedented-climate-crisis/
5/14/15 A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change: The Time to Act is Now
http://fore.yale.edu/files/Buddhist_Climate_Change_Statement_5-14-15.pdf
6/15/15 Pope Francis' Encyclical Letter Laudato Si' On Care For Our Common Home
http://www.catholicclimatecovenant.org/news/pope-francis-takes-on-climate-change?A=SearchResult&SearchID=771275&ObjectID=10961784&ObjectType=35
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Statement by the President on the Observance of Juneteenth
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/19/statement-president-observance-juneteenth.
Let's Move! Outside
http://www.letsmove.gov/lets-move-outside
Every Kid in a Park
https://www.everykidinapark.gov/
First Ever White House Campout
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/video/2015/06/30/first-lady-hosts-first-ever-white-house-campout-lets-move
http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2015/07/02/making-history-first-ever-white-house-campout
President Obama announced that the Department of Labor will expand overtime pay to millions of American workers.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/05/17/email-president-obama-ive-got-news-you-overtime
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/tell-department-labor-move-quickly-implementing-new-overtime-rule-0
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/17/fact-sheet-growing-middle-class-paychecks-and-helping-working-families-0
http://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/overtime-overview.pdf
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-11754.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/30/fact-sheet-middle-class-economics-rewarding-hard-work-restoring-overtime
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/ot_state_by_state_fact_sheet.pdf
White House Tribal Youth Gathering
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/09/fact-sheet-white-house-tribal-youth-gathering
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at The White House Tribal Youth Gathering
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/09/remarks-first-lady-white-house-tribal-youth-gathering
Champions of Change: Native American Youth Leaders
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/champions/native-american-youth-leaders
Gen-I Native Youth Challenge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/02/12/white-house-launches-generation-indigenous-native-youth-challenge
2015 Kids' "State Dinner" Winners
http://www.letsmove.gov/kids-state-dinner-winners
http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2015/06/08/2015-kids%E2%80%99-%E2%80%9Cstate-dinner%E2%80%9D-winners-announced
http://www.pbs.org/parents/lunchtimechallenge/home/
President Obama Designates New National Monuments
Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, Basin and Range National Monument, Waco Mammoth National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/10/remarks-president-signing-monument-designation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/10/fact-sheet-president-obama-designates-new-national-monuments
http://www.nps.gov/waco/index.htm
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/tour/basin_ra.cfm
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/nlcs/Berryessa_Snow_Mountain.html
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/07/10/president-obama-designates-three-new-national-monuments-protecting-over-one-million-
President Obama signs the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act
http://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/04/19/statement-assistant-secretary-aging-kathy-greenlee-older-americans-act-reauthorization.html
White House Conference on Aging
http://www.whitehouseconferenceonaging.gov/
http://www.ccoa.ca.gov/res/docs/WHCoA%202015/2015_WHCoA_FactSheet.pdf
Enhancing the Fairness and Effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/14/fact-sheet-enhancing-fairness-and-effectiveness-criminal-justice-system
President Obama's remarks at the 2015 NAACP Conference:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/14/remarks-president-naacp-conference
President Visits FCI El Reno
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/16/remarks-president-after-visit-el-reno-federal-correctional-institution
https://news.vice.com/article/president-obama-heads-to-prison-in-pursuit-of-criminal-justice-reform?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
President Obama meets with Choctaw Nation Chief Batton and Tribal Elders on expanding economic opportunity for for communities across the country
Durant High School, Choctaw Nation, Durant, Oklahoma
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/15/remarks-president-launch-connecthome-initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/15/fact-sheet-connecthome-coming-together-ensure-digital-opportunity-all
6/22/16 President Obama signs H.R.2576 – Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2576
Stream Protection Rule
http://www.osmre.gov/programs/RCM/docs/SPRProposedRule.pdf
http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/interior-department-unveils-proposed-stream-protection-rule-to-safeguard-communities-from-coal-mining-operations.cfm
President Obama delivers remarks to the People of Africa
African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/26/remarks-president-obama-kenyan-people
President Obama holds bilateral meetings with holds a multilateral meeting on South Sudan and counterterrorism issues with Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, the African Union and Uganda
Sheraton Addis, Addidas Ababa, Ethiopia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/27/remarks-president-obama-multilateral-meeting-south-sudan-and
President Obama attends a civil society event
YALI Regional Leadership Center, Nairobi, Kenya
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/26/remarks-president-obama-conversation-members-civil-society
President Obama delivers remarks to the Kenyan People
Safaricom Indoor Arena, Nairobi, Kenya
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/26/remarks-president-obama-kenyan-people
President Obama visits the Power Africa Innovation Fair
United Nations Compound, Kenya, Nairobi
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/25/remarks-president-during-visit-power-africa-innovation-fair
President Obama delivers remarks at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit
United Nations Compound, Kenya, Nairobi
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/25/remarks-president-obama-global-entrepreneurship-summit
Advancing Democracy, Human Rights, Gender Equality, Wildlife Conservation, and Governance in Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/26/fact-sheet-advancing-democracy-human-rights-gender-equality-wildlife
White House Launches American Business Act on Climate Pledge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/27/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-american-business-act-climate-pledge
Partnering with Africa on Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/28/fact-sheet-partnering-africa-food-security-and-climate-change-adaptation
Power Africa
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/25/fact-sheet-power-africa
Reinforcing the U.S.-Africa Partnership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/03/30/reinforcing-us-africa-partnership
Remarks by the President Before Signing the Tribal Law and Order Act
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-signing-tribal-law-and-order-act
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/07/29/tribal-law-and-order-act-2010-a-step-forward-native-women
Presidential Proclamation — 50th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/30/presidential-proclamation-50th-anniversary-medicare-and-medicaid
Remarks by the President in Announcing the Clean Power Plan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/03/remarks-president-announcing-clean-power-plan
President Obama to Announce Historic Carbon Pollution Standards for Power Plants
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/03/fact-sheet-president-obama-announce-historic-carbon-pollution-standards
White House Launches American Business Act on Climate Pledge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/27/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-american-business-act-climate-pledge
Obama Administration Announces Actions to Protect Communities from the Health Impacts of Climate Change at White House Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/23/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-actions-protect-communities
Obama Administration Releases Report on the Health and Economic Benefits of Global Action on Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/22/obama-administration-releases-report-health-and-economic-benefits-global
Launching a Public-Private Partnership to Empower Climate-Resilient Developing Nations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/09/fact-sheet-launching-public-private-partnership-empower-climate-resilien
Obama Administration Announces Clean Energy Savings for All Americans Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/19/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-clean-energy-savings-all
President Obama Announces New Commitments from Investors, Companies, Universities, and Cities to Advance Inclusive Entrepreneurship at First-Ever White House Demo Day
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/04/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-commitments-investors-companies
White House Demo Day
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/demo-day
Tribal leaders welcome Holder's voting access plan. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday his office will consult with tribes across the country to develop ways to increase voting access for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/June/14-ag-613.html
http://www.justice.gov/opa/video/protecting-voting-rights-american-indians-and-alaska-natives
President Barack Obama Weekly Address: Continuing Work to Improve Community Policing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/15/weekly-address-continuing-work-improve-community-policing
White House Unveils America's College Promise Proposal: Tuition-Free Community College for Responsible Students
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/09/fact-sheet-white-house-unveils-america-s-college-promise-proposal-tuitio
Remarks by the President on America's College Promise
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/09/remarks-president-americas-college-promise
Components of the Clean Power Plan: Setting State Goals to Cut Carbon Pollution (PDF)(3 pp, 219 K, About PDF)
http://www.epa.gov/airquality/cpp/fs-cpp-state-goals.pdf
The Role of States: States Decide How to Meet Their Goal (PDF)(4 pp, 188 K, About PDF)
http://www.epa.gov/airquality/cpp/fs-cpp-states-decide.pdf
President Obama meets with Specialist Aleksander Skarlatos, Airman Spencer Stone, and Anthony Sadler
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/17/remarks-president-meeting-specialist-aleksander-skarlatos-airman-spencer
President Obama Announces New Actions to Bring Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency to Households across the Country
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/24/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-actions-bring-renewable-energy
Katrina: 10 Years Recovery
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/19/fact-sheet-president-obama-commemorate-10th-anniversary-hurricane
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/images/hudimg?id=KatrinaAnnivFctsheet.JPG
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2015/HUDNo_15-108
President Obama Announces New Investments to Combat Climate Change and Assist Remote Alaskan Communities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/02/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-investments-combat-climate
President Obama announces New Investments to Enhance Safety and Security in the Changing Arctic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/01/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-investments-enhance-safety-and
President Obama hikes to the Exit Glacier
Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/01/remarks-president-exit-glacier-kenai-fjords-national-park-ak
President Barack Obama announces a "secretarial order" that has officially restored the Koyukon Athabascan name of Denali to the tallest mountain in North America, previously known as Mt. McKinley
Dena'ina Center, Anchorage, Alaska
https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.opengov.ibmcloud.com/files/press-release/Denali%20Name%20Change.pdf
President Obama addresses the GLACIER Conference
Dena'ina Center, Anchorage, Alaska
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/01/remarks-president-glacier-conference-anchorage-ak
The Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience, or GLACIER, will highlight international and domestic priorities in the Arctic. At the direction of the U.S. Arctic Executive Steering Committee, the Department of State is developing the agenda for GLACIER in close coordination with the White House, and Departments and Agencies of the United States Government with Arctic responsibilities.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/21/executive-order-enhancing-coordination-national-efforts-arctic
http://www.state.gov/e/oes/glacier/index.htm
HUD 50
http://hud50.hud.gov/
http://hud50.hud.gov/join-hud-in-celebrating-50-years-of-opportunity/
Helping Middle-Class Families Get Ahead by Expanding Paid Sick Leave
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/07/fact-sheet-helping-middle-class-families-get-ahead-expanding-paid-sick
Presidential Proclamation — Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, Constitution Week, 2015
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/17/presidential-proclamation-constitution-day-and-citizenship-day
President Obama's "Stand Stronger" Citizenship Awareness Campaign
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/17/fact-sheet-stand-stronger-citizenship-awareness-campaign
President Obama: "We Do Not Leave Anybody Wearing the American Uniform Behind"
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/05/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-david-cameron-united-kingdom-
President Obama, Vice President Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Dr Biden welcomes His Holiness Pope Francis to the White House, South Lawn
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/23/remarks-president-obama-and-his-holiness-pope-francis-arrival-ceremony
Advancing Shared Values for A Better World
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/23/fact-sheet-advancing-shared-values-better-world
Statement by the President on Pope Francis's Encyclical (On Climate Change)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/18/statement-president-pope-francis%E2%80%99s-encyclical
The United States and China Issue Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change with New Domestic Policy Commitments and a Common Vision for an Ambitious Global Climate Agreement in Paris
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/25/fact-sheet-united-states-and-china-issue-joint-presidential-statement
U.S.-China Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/25/us-china-joint-presidential-statement-climate-change
President Obama chairs a United Nations Peacekeeping Summit
U.N. Headquarters, New York, NY
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/28/remarks-president-obama-un-peacekeeping-summit
President Obama speaks at the Opening Session of the 70th United Nations General Assembly
U.N. Headquarters, New York, NY
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/28/remarks-president-obama-united-nations-general-assembly
President Obama delivers remarks at a DNC LGBT Gala
Gotham Hall, New York, NY
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/27/remarks-president-dnc-lgbt-gala
President Obama delivers remarks at the Closing Session: Post-2015 Development Agenda
U.N. Headquarters, General Assembly Hall, New York, NY
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/27/remarks-president-sustainable-development-goals
U.S. Global Development Policy and Agenda 2030
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/27/fact-sheet-us-global-development-policy-and-agenda-2030
Statement by President Obama on Commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/27/statement-president-commemorating-twentieth-anniversary-fourth-world
Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/27/fact-sheet-promoting-gender-equality-and-womens-empowerment
U.S. Global Development Policy and Agenda 2030
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/27/fact-sheet-us-global-development-policy-and-agenda-2030
White House Summit on Offshore Wind
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/28/fact-sheet-white-house-summit-offshore-wind
Declaration of Leaders' Summit on Peacekeeping
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/28/declaration-leaders-summit-peacekeeping
Leaders' Summit to Counter ISIL and Violent Extremism
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/29/fact-sheet-leaders-summit-counter-isil-and-violent-extremism
President Obama delivers remarks at the 34th National Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial Service
Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Maryland
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/04/remarks-president-34th-fallen-firefighters-memorial-service
http://www.firehero.org/events/memorial-weekend/about/bells-across-america/
Administration Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary of Challenge.gov with Launch of More than 20 New Public- and Private-Sector Prizes
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/07/fact-sheet-administration-celebrates-five-year-anniversary-challengegov
Remarks by the President at the White House Summit on Worker Voice
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/07/remarks-president-white-house-summit-worker-voice
Remarks by the President at the White House Summit for Worker Voice Town Hall
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/07/remarks-president-white-house-summit-worker-voice-town-hall
The Evolution and Impact of Worker Voice over Time
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/10/07/evolution-and-impact-worker-voice-over-time
The White House Summit on Worker Voice | The White House
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/campaign/worker-voice
Congressional Hispanic Caucus 38th Annual Awards Gala
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/08/remarks-president-congressional-hispanic-caucus-institute-gala
First Lady Named Sponsor of New Navy Submarine, USS ILLINOIS
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/28/first-lady-named-sponsor-new-navy-submarine-uss-illinois
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/02/remarks-first-lady-keel-laying-ceremony-pcu-illinois
http://www.generaldynamics.com/news/press-releases/2015/10/general-dynamics-christens-submarine-illinois-ssn-786
Federal Agencies Investing in Hispanic Education
http://sites.ed.gov/hispanic-initiative/files/2015/09/Federal-Agencies-Investing-in-Hispanic-Education_FINAL.pdf
Hispanic Teacher Recruitment Factsheet
http://sites.ed.gov/hispanic-initiative/files/2015/04/FINAL_Hispanic-Teacher-Recruitment-Factsheet_04272015.pdf
Bright Spots in Hispanic Education national online catalog
http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/list/hispanic-initiative/bright-spots.html
Latinas in the U.S.
http://sites.ed.gov/hispanic-initiative/files/2015/09/Fulfilling-Americas-Future-Latinas-in-the-U.S.-2015-Final-Report.pdf
President Obama at Signing of Executive Order for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/19/remarks-president-signing-executive-order-white-house-initiative-educati
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/15/presidential-proclamation-national-hispanic-heritage-month-2015
25 Años de Aportes Hispanos al Futuro de Estados Unidos
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/15/hoja-informativa-25-a%C3%B1os-de-aportes-hispanos-al-futuro-de-estados-unidos
The President's Priorities in the Latino Community
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/15/fact-sheet-presidents-priorities-latino-community
Remarks by the President Obama at Hispanic Heritage Month Reception
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/15/remarks-president-hispanic-heritage-month-reception
On Oct. 19, 2010, President Obama signed Executive Order 13555, renewing the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. This commitment demonstrated the President's strong support for the critical role Hispanics play in the overall prosperity of the nation and highlights the administration's commitment to expanding educational opportunities and improving educational outcomes for all students. The Initiative's Second Term Action Plan 2013-2016 outlines our strategic direction and key priorities during President Obama's second term, consistent with the Executive Order.
http://sites.ed.gov/hispanic-initiative/752-2/
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/19/executive-order-white-house-initiative-educational-excellence-hispanics
http://sites.ed.gov/hispanic-initiative/files/2014/05/WHIEEH-Second-Term-Action-Plan-2013-2016.pdf
Administration Proposes Critical Investments to Tackle Prescription Drug Abuse, Heroin Use, and Overdose Deaths
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ondcp/news-releases/2016-budget-opioid-resources
Obama Administration Announces Public and Private Sector Efforts to Address Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Use
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/21/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-public-and-private-sector
Presidential Memorandum — Addressing Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Use
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/21/presidential-memorandum-addressing-prescription-drug-abuse-and-heroin
Remarks by the President at Community Forum at East End Family Resource Center
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/21/remarks-president-community-forum-east-end-family-resource-center
President Obama Proposes $1.1 Billion in New Funding to Address the Prescription Opioid Abuse and Heroin Use Epidemic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/02/president-obama-proposes-11-billion-new-funding-address-prescription
CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain — United States, 2016
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/rr/rr6501e1er.htm?s_cid=rr6501e1er_w#B1_down
Obama Administration Announces Additional Actions to Address the Prescription Opioid Abuse and Heroin Epidemic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/29/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-additional-actions-address
Presidential Memorandum — Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Task Force
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/29/presidential-memorandum-mental-health-and-substance-use-disorder-parity
President Obama's Remarks in Panel Discussion at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/29/remarks-president-panel-discussion-national-prescription-drug-abuse-and
Obama Administration Honors Americans Leading Efforts to Stop the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/29/fact-sheet-obama-administration-honors-americans-leading-efforts-stop
Obama Administration Takes More Actions to Address the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/06/fact-sheet-obama-administration-takes-more-actions-address-prescription
President Obama signs the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/22/statement-president-comprehensive-addiction-and-recovery-act-2016
2014 National Drug Control Strategy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/ndcs_2014.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/2014_strategy_fact_sheet.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ondcp/national-drug-control-strategy/advocates-for-action-2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/prs_2014.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/ndcs_data_supplement_2014.pdf
President Obama hosts Prescription Drug Abuse Community Discussion
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/rx_abuse_plan.pdf
Remarks by President Obama after Visit at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/16/remarks-president-after-visit-el-reno-federal-correctional-institution
Enhancing the Fairness and Effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/14/fact-sheet-enhancing-fairness-and-effectiveness-criminal-justice-system
President Obama's Weekly Address: Working for Meaningful Criminal Justice Reform
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/weekly-address
Remarks by President Obama at White House Discussion on Criminal Justice with Law Enforcement Leaders
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/22/remarks-president-arm-chair-discussion-criminal-justice-law-enforcement
Remarks by the President at the 122nd Annual IACP Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/27/remarks-president-122nd-annual-iacp-conference
Weekly Address: It's Time To Reform our Criminal Justice System
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/31/weekly-address-its-time-reform-our-criminal-justice-system
FACT SHEET: President Obama Announces New Actions to Promote Rehabilitation and Reintegration for the Formerly- Incarcerated
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/02/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-actions-promote-rehabilitation
Remarks by President Obama on Criminal Justice Reform
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/02/remarks-president-criminal-justice-reform
New Policies Addressing Bureau of Prisons's Use of Restrictive Housing & Solitary Confinement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/25/fact-sheet-department-justice-review-solitary-confinement
Remarks by the President on Commutations of Prison Sentences
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/30/remarks-president-commutations-prison-sentences
White House Briefing on Life After Clemency
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/live/white-house-briefing-life-after-clemency
White House Launches the Fair Chance Business Pledge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/11/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-fair-chance-business-pledge
Weekly Address: Building a Fairer and More Effective Criminal Justice System
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/23/weekly-address-building-fairer-and-more-effective-criminal-justice
President Obama Announces New Actions to Reduce Recidivism and Promote Reintegration of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/24/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-actions-reduce-recidivism-and
Launching the Data-Driven Justice Initiative: Disrupting the Cycle of Incarceration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/30/fact-sheet-launching-data-driven-justice-initiative-disrupting-cycle
Fair Chance Pledge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/criminal-justice/fair-chance-pledge
White House Launches the Fair Chance Business Pledge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/11/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-fair-chance-business-pledge
First Lady Michelle Obama attends the 2015 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Roundtable
Doha, Qatar
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/04/remarks-first-lady-world-innovation-summit-education-roundtable
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the 2015 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE)
Doha, Qatar
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/04/remarks-first-lady-world-innovation-summit-education-let-girls-learn
First Lady Michelle Obama Op Ed: Let Girls Learn
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/11/girls-education-michelle-obama/413554/
First Lady Michelle Obama Announces New Commitments To The U.S. Government's Let Girls Learn Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/13/fact-sheet-first-lady-michelle-obama-announces-new-commitments-us
President Obama Announces New Actions to Reduce Recidivism and Promote Reintegration of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/24/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-new-actions-reduce-recidivism-and
Launching the Data-Driven Justice Initiative: Disrupting the Cycle of Incarceration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/30/fact-sheet-launching-data-driven-justice-initiative-disrupting-cycle
The 7th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/05/fact-sheet-7th-annual-white-house-tribal-nations-conference
U.S. Commitment to the Global Health Security Agenda
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/16/fact-sheet-us-commitment-global-health-security-agenda
President Obama participates in an U.S.–ASEAN session
Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/21/remarks-president-obama-us-asean-meeting
President Obama participates in a civil society roundtable
Ritz Carlton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/21/remarks-president-obama-civil-society-roundtable
President Obama tours the Dignity for Children Foundation
Dignity for Children Foundation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/21/remarks-president-obama-dignity-children-foundation
President Obama participates in a town hall meeting with members of the South East Asian Leaders Initiative
Taylor's University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/20/remarks-president-yseali-town-hall
The President's Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/20/fact-sheet-presidents-young-southeast-asian-leaders-initiative
Joint Statement on the ASEAN-U.S. Strategic Partnership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/21/joint-statement-asean-us-strategic-partnership
U.S.-ASEAN Relations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/21/fact-sheet-us-asean-relations
US-ASEAN Economic Engagement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/21/fact-sheet-us-asean-economic-engagement
U.S. Building Maritime Capacity in Southeast Asia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/17/fact-sheet-us-building-maritime-capacity-southeast-asia
Advancing the Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/16/fact-sheet-advancing-rebalance-asia-and-pacific
Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/18/trans-pacific-partnership-leaders-statement
White House Announces Doubling of TechHire Communities, and New Steps to Give More Students and Workers Tech Skills to Fuel the Next Generation of American Innovation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/09/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-doubling-techhire-communities-and-new
Expanding the Tech Economies of Communities across the Country
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/27/fact-sheet-expanding-tech-economies-communities-across-country
TechHire initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/technology/techhire
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/09/fact-sheet-president-obama-launches-new-techhire-initiative
TechHire. President Barack Obama, National League of Cities Annual Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/09/remarks-president-national-league-cities-conference
Pharmaceutical Forum: Innovation, Access, Affordability and Better Health
http://www.hhs.gov/hhspharmaceuticalforum
Visa Waiver Program Enhancements
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/30/fact-sheet-visa-waiver-program-enhancements
G20 Press Conference by President Obama — Antalya, Turkey
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/16/press-conference-president-obama-antalya-turkey
President Obama holds a press conference
Organization for Economic Co-Operation And Development Centre, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/01/press-conference-president-obama
President Obama convenes a meeting of the island nations leaders of the Seychelles, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, St. Lucia and Barbados who are most at risk from the threat of climate change
Organization for Economic Co-Operation And Development Centre, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/03/remarks-president-obama-multilateral-meeting-island-nation-leaders
President Obama participates in a Mission Innovation Event with other leaders and the private sector
Le Bourget, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/30/remarks-president-obama-mission-innovation-announcement
President Obama delivers a statement at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Le Bourget, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/30/remarks-president-obama-first-session-cop21
200+ Colleges and Universities Sign the American Campus Act on Climate Pledge to Demonstrate Support for Strong International Climate Action
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/19/fact-sheet-ahead-conference-climate-change-more-200-colleges-and
Mission Innovation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/29/fact-sheet-mission-innovation
U.S.-China Joint Statement on COP21
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/30/us-china-joint-statement-cop21
White House Announces Additional Commitments to the American Business Act on Climate Pledge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/30/white-house-announces-additional-commitments-american-business-act
White House Announces Additional Commitments to The American Business Act on Climate Pledge
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/01/white-house-announces-additional-commitments-american-business-act
Health Educators Climate Commitment
https://propresobama.org/page/22/Health%20Educators%20Climate%20Commitment
Catching and changing the word "SHALL" to "SHOULD" ensured blocking out a GOP kill of the US fulfilling it's part in the COP21 agreement
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/paris-climate-talks-tic-toc-216721
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Agreement
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf
U.S. Leadership and the Historic Paris Agreement to Combat Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/12/us-leadership-and-historic-paris-agreement-combat-climate-change
President Obama delivers a statement on the Climate Agreement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/12/statement-president-paris-climate-agreement
President Obama's remarks on Rosa Parks
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/01/statement-president
First Lady Michelle Obama hosts a preview of the 2015 holiday decor at the White House. After delivering remarks in the East Room, the First Lady will be joined in the State Dining Room by White House Executive Chef Cris Comerford, White House Executive Pastry Chef Susan Morrison, and White House Chief Floral Designer Roshan Ghaffarian, who will demonstrate holiday crafts and treats. As part of the Joining Forces initiative, the First Lady will welcome military families to the White House for the first viewing of the 2015 holiday decorations. As in years past, many of the White House holiday decorations will honor military families.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/wh_2015_holiday_tourbook.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/02/remarks-first-lady-annual-holiday-press-preview
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/02/2015-white-house-holidays-timeless-tradition
Statement by the President on Women in the U.S. Military
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/03/statement-president-women-us-military
http://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/OSD014303-15.pdf
http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/632536/carter-opens-all-military-occupations-positions-to-women
Presidential Proclamation — National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2015
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/04/presidential-proclamation-national-pearl-harbor-remembrance-day-2015
USS Arizona Memorial Discovery Packet
http://www.nps.gov/valr/upload/press_kit.pdf
New Commitments to Support Computer Science Education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/08/fact-sheet-new-commitments-support-computer-science-education
President Obama Announces Computer Science For All Initiative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/30/fact-sheet-president-obama-announces-computer-science-all-initiative-0
President Obama participates in an "Hour of Code" Event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/video/2014/12/08/president-obama-delivers-remarks-hour-code-event
"It is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country. It's our responsibility to reject proposals that Muslim Americans should somehow be treated differently. Because when we travel down that road, we lose. That kind of divisiveness, that betrayal of our values plays into the hands of groups like ISIL. Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes — and, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country. We have to remember that."
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/06/address-nation-president
President Obama signs the Every Student Succeeds Act
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/10/remarks-president-every-student-succeeds-act-signing-ceremony
The Every Student Succeeds Act [fixing No Child Left Behind]
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/10/white-house-report-every-student-succeeds-act
U.S. Department of Education Releases 2016 National Education Technology Plan
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-2016-national-education-technology-plan
http://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/every_student_succeeds_act_-_conference_report.pdf
Presidential Proclamation — Bill of Rights Day, 2015
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/14/presidential-proclamation-bill-rights-day-2015
Remarks by the President at Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/09/remarks-president-commemoration-150th-anniversary-13th-amendment
Remarks by the First Lady to Children on the NORAD Santa-Tracker Call
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/24/remarks-first-lady-children-norad-santa-tracker-call
ESA Listing Protects Lions in Africa and India, Director's Order Strengthens Wildlife Import Restrictions for Wildlife Law Violators
http://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ref=endangered-species-act-listing-protects-lions-in-africa-and-india-&_ID=35403
FishBrain and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Partner to Create App-powered Citizen Science Engagement Opportunity Tracking Endangered Species
http://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ID=F3DABD6D-5056-AF00-5B1BA898C8311274
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Finalizes Rule Listing All Chimpanzees as Endangered under the Endangered Species Act
http://çhttp//www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ID=E81DA137-BAF2-9619-3492A2972E9854D9
President Obama holds a Gun Control Town Hall
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/07/remarks-president-cnn-guns-america-town-hall
President Obama delivers remarks on Executive Actions to
Reduce Gun Violence while Protecting the Second Amendment and Our Kids
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/05/remarks-president-common-sense-gun-safety-reform
FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/04/fact-sheet-new-executive-actions-reduce-gun-violence-and-make-our
Memorandum — Promoting Smart Gun Technology
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/05/memorandum-promoting-smart-gun-technology
President Obama 'Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility' Op-Ed Article
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/opinion/president-barack-obama-guns-are-our-shared-responsibility.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
What the President is Doing to Keep Guns Out of the Wrong Hands
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/01/weekly-address-making-america-safer-our-children
Improving Economic Security by Strengthening and Modernizing the Unemployment Insurance System
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/16/fact-sheet-improving-economic-security-strengthening-and-modernizing
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks on ending Veteran homelessness at the 84th Winter Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/21/remarks-first-lady-ending-veteran-homelessness-us-conference-mayors
President Obama Hosts Over 250 Mayors to Strengthen Partnerships and Grow the Economy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/21/fact-sheet-president-obama-hosts-over-250-mayors-strengthen-partnerships
Obama Administration Announces Major Investments in Preventing Child Hunger
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/27/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-major-investments-preventing
U.S. Leadership in Securing First-Ever Global Carbon Emissions Standards for Commercial Airplanes
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/08/fact-sheet-us-leadership-securing-first-ever-global-carbon-emissions
http://www.icao.int/Newsroom/Pages/New-ICAO-Aircraft-CO2-Standard-One-Step-Closer-To-Final-Adoption.aspx
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/18/statement-nsc-spokesperson-ned-price-us-delegation-extraordinary-meeting
Joint Statement of the U.S.-ASEAN Special Leaders' Summit: Sunnylands Declaration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/16/joint-statement-us-asean-special-leaders-summit-sunnylands-declaration
Remarks by President Obama at Opening Session of the U.S.-ASEAN Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/15/remarks-president-obama-opening-session-us-asean-summit
Unprecedented U.S.-ASEAN Relations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/12/fact-sheet-unprecedented-us-asean-relations
2010 Remarks by the President at the National Prayer Breakfast
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast
President Obama Announces Extension of Federal Employee Benefits
http://www.chcoc.gov/transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalID=5700
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announces benefits to Federal employees and annuitants who have legally married a spouse of the same sex
http://www.chcoc.gov/transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalID=5700
Department of Defense Announces Same-Sex Spouse Benefits
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=16203
Treasury and IRS Announce That All Legal Same-Sex Marriages Will Be Recognized For Federal Tax Purposes.
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/Treasury-and-IRS-Announce-That-All-Legal-Same-Sex-Marriages-Will-Be-Recognized-For-Federal-Tax-Purposes;-Ruling-Provides-Certainty,-Benefits-and-Protections-Under-Federal-Tax-Law-for-Same-Sex-Married-Couples
Social Security Announces the Processing of claims for same-sex couples
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/2492
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel directed the chief of the National Guard Bureau to meet with the adjutants general of nine [of the remaining] states [not in compliance] to resolve the issue of those states denying ID cards to same-sex spouses at National Guard facilities.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121038
Attorney General Eric Holder announced changes within the Justice Department to benefit same-sex married couples such as the option to not testify against their partners, ablilty to file for bankruptcy jointly, spousal visits and contacts for Federal prison inmates, benefits granted to the survivors of public safety officers who are killed in the line of duty.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/nprm%2Dspouse/
President Obama announces a rule that makes legally married same-sex couples eligible for benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act in all 50 states
http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/nprm%2Dspouse/
Attorney General Holder Announces Federal Government to Recognize Same-Sex Married Couples in Six Additional States
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-holder-announces-federal-government-recognize-same-sex-married-couples-six
Secretary of State John Kerry announces Randy Berry as the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons
http://amsterdam.usconsulate.gov/current_cg.html
Department of Defense Extends Non-Discrimination Protections for LGB Troops
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=129003
Presidential Proclamation — National African American History Month, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/29/presidential-proclamation-national-african-american-history-month-2016
Champions of Change for Educational Excellence for African Americans
http://blog.ed.gov/2013/03/champions-of-change-for-educational-excellence-for-african-americans/
White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
http://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/
Initiative Leadership
http://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/initiative-leadership/
Not Alone – Protecting Students from Sexual Assault.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/29/fact-sheet-not-alone-protecting-students-sexual-assault
Launch of the "It's On Us" Public Awareness Campaign to Help Prevent Campus Sexual Assault
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/19/fact-sheet-launch-it-s-us-public-awareness-campaign-help-prevent-campus-
Today, the President announced an initiative to help put an end to campus sexual assault. It's called "It's On Us."
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/09/19/its-every-single-one-us
U.S.-Canada Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/10/us-canada-joint-statement-climate-energy-and-arctic-leadership
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the opening keynote address at SXSW Music
South by Southwest, Austin, TX
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/16/remarks-first-lady-keynote-discussion-south-southwest
President Obama delivers remarks as part of a keynote conversation at SXSW Interactive
South by Southwest, Austin, TX
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/14/remarks-president-south-southwest-interactive
Photo Gallery: President Obama Visits Ireland
http://dublin.usembassy.gov/president-obama-visits-ireland/photo-gallery-president-obama-visits-ireland.html
President Barack Obama And First Lady Michelle Obama 2011 Visit Ireland, White House picture album of the Obamas' visit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/president-barack-obama-and-first-lady-michelle-obama-visit-ireland
President Obama participates in the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Town Hall
Usina del Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/23/remarks-president-obama-young-leaders-americas-initiative-town-hall
First Lady Michell Obama and Agentine First Lady Juliana Awada meet with students as a part of "Let Girls Learn"
Metropolitan Design Center, Barracas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/23/remarks-first-lady-let-girls-learn-argentine-high-school-students-0
First Lady Michelle Obama dedicates a gift to The Cuban People
Biblioteca Publica Ruben Martinez Villena, Havana, Cuba
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/22/remarks-first-lady-dedicating-gift-cuban-people
President Obama delivers remarks to the Cuban people
El Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso, Havana, Cuba
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/22/remarks-president-obama-people-cuba
President Obama participates in a panel discussion with a number of Cuban entrepreneurs
Havana, Cuba
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/21/remarks-president-obama-entrepreneurship-and-opportunity-event-havana
First Lady Michelle Obama meets with Cuban high school-age girls as a part of her "Let Girls Learn" initiative
Havana, Cuba
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/21/remarks-first-lady-and-soledad-obrien-during-girls-education-discussion
Letter from Raul Castro — Re-establishing Diplomatic Relations and Permanent Diplomatic Missions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov//sites/default/files/docs/letter_from_raul_castro.pdf
Presidential Letter — Re-establishing Diplomatic Relations and Permanent Diplomatic Missions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions
Presidential Proclamation — Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Brussels, Belgium
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/22/presidential-proclamation-honoring-victims-attack-brussels-belgium
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/22/remarks-president-obama-people-cuba
President Obama and First Lady Michelle delivers remarks at the 138th Annual White House Easter Egg Roll
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/28/remarks-president-and-first-lady-2016-easter-egg-roll
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/25/white-house-announces-full-2016-easter-egg-roll-program-and-talent-line
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/25/statement-president-easter
President Obama signs the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/22/statement-president-comprehensive-addiction-and-recovery-act-2016
Obama Administration Takes More Actions to Address the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/06/fact-sheet-obama-administration-takes-more-actions-address-prescription
Obama Administration Honors Americans Leading Efforts to Stop the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/29/fact-sheet-obama-administration-honors-americans-leading-efforts-stop
Obama Administration Announces Additional Actions to Address the Prescription Opioid Abuse and Heroin Epidemic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/02/president-obama-proposes-11-billion-new-funding-address-prescription
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Closing Press Briefing by The Honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/press-conference-president-obama-412016
The Nuclear Security Summits: Securing the World from Nuclear Terrorism
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/29/fact-sheet-nuclear-security-summits-securing-world-nuclear-terrorism
WP Op-Ed by Pres. Obama: How we can make our vision of a world without nuclear weapons a reality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-how-we-can-make-our-vision-of-a-world-without-nuclear-weapons-a-reality/2016/03/30/3e156e2c-f693-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html
United States National Progress Report – 2016 Nuclear Security Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/31/united-states-national-progress-report-2016-nuclear-security-summit
Transparency in the U.S. Highly Enriched Uranium Inventory
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/31/fact-sheet-transparency-us-highly-enriched-uranium-inventory
United States Military Nuclear Material Security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/31/fact-sheet-united-states-military-nuclear-material-security
Feasibility of Low Enriched Uranium Fuel in Naval Reactor Plants
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/31/fact-sheet-feasibility-low-enriched-uranium-fuel-naval-reactor-plants
Joint Announcement of the United States and Republic of Kazakhstan Cooperation in the Sphere of Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/31/joint-announcement-united-states-and-republic-kazakhstan-cooperation
Remarks by President Obama at the P5+1 Meeting
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/remarks-president-obama-p51-meeting
Eliminating All Highly Enriched Uranium from Argentina
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-eliminating-all-highly-enriched-uranium-argentina
US-Japan Joint Statement on Nuclear Security Cooperation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/us-japan-joint-statement-nuclear-security-cooperation
Removal of All Highly Enriched Uranium and Plutonium from Japan's Fast Critical Assembly
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-removal-all-highly-enriched-uranium-and-plutonium-japans-fast
Eliminating All Highly Enriched Uranium from Indonesia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-eliminating-all-highly-enriched-uranium-indonesia
Nuclear Material Removal from Germany
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-nuclear-material-removal-germany
Highly Enriched Uranium Minimization Activities since March 2014
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-eliminating-all-highly-enriched-uranium-indonesia
Insider Threat Mitigation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-insider-threat-mitigation
U.S. Ratification of Nuclear Security Treaties
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-us-ratification-nuclear-security-treaties
Status of the 2005 Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-status-2005-amendment-convention-physical-protection-nuclear
'Gift Basket' on Sustaining Action to Strengthen the Global Nuclear Security Architecture
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-gift-basket-sustaining-action-strengthen-global-nuclear
Countering Nuclear Smuggling
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-countering-nuclear-smuggling
Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Communiqué
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/nuclear-security-summit-2016-communiqu%C3%A9
U.S. Participation in the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-us-participation-global-partnership-against-spread-weapons
U.S. Participation at the United Nations on Nuclear Security Issues
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/fact-sheet-us-participation-united-nations-nuclear-security-issues
U.S. Support to the International Atomic Energy Agency for Nuclear Security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/nuclear-security-summit-2016-action-plan-support-global-partnership
Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Action Plan in Support of the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/nuclear-security-summit-2016-action-plan-support-global-partnership
Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Action Plan in Support of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/nuclear-security-summit-2016-action-plan-support-global-initiative
Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Action Plan in Support of the International Criminal Police Organization
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/nuclear-security-summit-2016-action-plan-support-international-criminal
Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Action Plan in Support of the United Nations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/nuclear-security-summit-2016-action-plan-support-united-nations
Joint Statement on Sustaining Action to Strengthen Global Nuclear Security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/joint-statement-sustaining-action-strengthen-global-nuclear-security
4/1/16 Remarks by President Obama at the Closing Session of the Nuclear Security Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/remarks-president-obama-closing-session-nuclear-security-summit
4/2/16 Weekly Address: Securing the World from Nuclear Terrorism
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/04/02/weekly-address-securing-world-nuclear-terrorism
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New Actions to Tackle Corporate Inversions
https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0404.aspx
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/04/05/why-you-should-care-new-actions-corporate-inversions
The President's Statement on Today's Treasury Department Action on Inversions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/09/22/presidents-statement-todays-treasury-department-action-inversions
Middle Class Economics: Strengthening Retirement Security by Cracking Down on Conflicts of Interest in Retirement Savings
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/06/fact-sheet-middle-class-economics-strengthening-retirement-security-0
Middle Class Economics: Strengthening Retirement Security by Cracking Down on Conflicts of Interest in Retirement Savings
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/06/fact-sheet-middle-class-economics-strengthening-retirement-security
President Obama signs a proclamation establishing The Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/12/presidential-proclamation-establishment-belmont-paul-womens-equality
http://www.sewallbelmont.org/
https://www.nps.gov/bepa/
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-applauds-president-obama%E2%80%99s-designation-new-belmont-paul-women%E2%80%99s
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/park/belmont-paul-womens-equality-national-monument
Presidential Proclamation — National Equal Pay Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/11/presidential-proclamation-national-equal-pay-day-2016
Pres. Obama participates in BlogHer and SheKnows Town Hall
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/15/remarks-president-working-mothers-town-hall
Pres Obama hosts a White House 'Champions of Change' Working Families event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/16/remarks-president-working-families-champions-change-event
At White House Science Fair, President Obama Calls on This Generation of Students to Tackle the Grand Challenges of Our Time
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/13/fact-sheet-white-house-science-fair-president-obama-calls-generation
Additional details on the White House Science Fair
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/13/new-details-president-obama-hosts-6th-white-house-science-fair
Science Fair 2016: Meet the Next Generation of America's Innovators
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/04/08/science-fair-2016-meet-next-generation-americas-innovators
Announcing the 2016 White House Science Fair
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/03/30/announcing-2016-white-house-science-fair
Obama Administration's Record and the LGBT Community
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/09/fact-sheet-obama-administrations-record-and-lgbt-community
United States-Gulf Cooperation Council Second Summit Leaders Communique
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/21/united-states-gulf-cooperation-council-second-summit-leaders-communique
Implementation of the U.S.-Gulf Cooperation Council Strategic Partnership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/21/fact-sheet-implementation-us-gulf-cooperation-council-strategic
Presidential Proclamation — Earth Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/21/presidential-proclamation-earth-day-2016
In her advocacy for higher education, Michelle Obama launched the Reach Higher Initiative in 2014. The aim of this initiative is to inspire young Americans to broaden their futures by expanding their education beyond high school. Reach Higher seeks to ensure that all students understand the importance of an education by exposing students to college and career opportunities; understanding financial aid; academic planning and summer learning opportunities; as well as supporting high school counselors who do essential work to get students into college.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/reach-higher
Presidential Proclamation — Law Day, U.S.A. 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/27/presidential-proclamation-law-day-usa-2016
Federal Support for the Flint Water Crisis Response and Recovery
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/03/fact-sheet-federal-support-flint-water-crisis-response-and-recovery
Remarks by the President at Howard University Commencement Ceremony
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/07/remarks-president-howard-university-commencement-ceremony
President Obama signs H.R. 2908, the "National Bison Legacy Act," which adopts the North American bison as the national mammal of the United States.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2032/text
https://www.doi.gov/blog/15-facts-about-our-national-mammal-american-bison
U.S.-Nordic Collaboration on Climate Change, the Arctic, and Clean Energy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/13/fact-sheet-us-nordic-collaboration-climate-change-arctic-and-clean
President Obama – Commencement Speaker
Rutgers University-New Brunswick Class of 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/15/remarks-president-commencement-address-rutgers-state-university-new
President Obama participates in a town hall with Vietnamese youth
GEM Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/25/remarks-president-obama-yseali-town-hall
President Obama delivers remarks to the Vietnamese people
DreamPlex Coworking Space, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/24/remarks-president-obama-address-people-vietnam
President Obama participates in a Business and Entrepreneurship Event
DreamPlex Coworking Space, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/24/remarks-president-discussion-business-and-entrepreneurship-event
President Obama deliver remarks Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-hiroshima-peace
G7 Ise-Shima Leaders' Declaration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/g7-ise-shima-leaders-declaration
The G-7 Summit at Ise-Shima Japan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/fact-sheet-g-7-summit-ise-shima-japan
United States-Vietnam Relations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/23/fact-sheet-united-states-vietnam-relations
Joint Statement: Between the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/23/joint-statement-between-united-states-america-and-socialist-republic
Enhancing U.S.-Vietnam Civil Nuclear Clean Energy Cooperation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/24/fact-sheet-enhancing-us-vietnam-civil-nuclear-clean-energy-cooperation
Trade and Investment with Vietnam
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/24/fact-sheet-trade-and-investment-vietnam
United States-Vietnam Education Cooperation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/25/fact-sheet-united-states-vietnam-education-cooperation
Santa Fe Indian High School Commencement 2016
First Lady Michelle Obama – Commencement Speaker
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/26/remarks-first-lady-santa-fe-indian-school-commencement
5/26/16 Presidential Proclamation — Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/26/presidential-proclamation-prayer-peace-memorial-day-2016
5/28/16 Weekly Address: Remembering Our Fallen Heroes
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/28/weekly-address-remembering-our-fallen-heroes
5/30/16 Remarks by the President on Memorial Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/30/remarks-president-memorial-day-2016
President Obama signs S. 184, the "Native American Children's Safety Act," it amends the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act to require background checks before foster care placements are made by tribal social services agencies.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c114%3AS.184%3A
https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-cramer-president-signs-native-american-childrens-safety-act-into-law
Presidential Proclamation -- Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Orlando, Florida
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/12/presidential-proclamation-honoring-victims-attack-orlando-florida
Remarks by the President in a Statement to the Press
Dr. P. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/16/remarks-president-statement-press
Remarks by the President on Mass Shooting in Orlando
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/12/remarks-president-mass-shooting-orlando
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at The United State of Women Dinner
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/14/remarks-first-lady-united-state-women-summit-dinner
President Obama delivers remarks at The United State of Women Dinner
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/14/remarks-president-united-states-women-summit
Fist Lady Michelle Obama Announces More Than $20 Million in New Commitments to the U.S. Government's Let Girl Learn Initiative at the United State of Women Summit Dinner
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/14/fact-sheet-first-lady-michelle-obama-announces-more-20-million-new-0
Government, Businesses and Organizations Announce $50 Million in Commitments to Support Women And Girls
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/13/fact-sheet-government-businesses-and-organizations-announce-50-million
Statement by the President on the Observance of Juneteenth
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/19/statement-president-observance-juneteenth
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/tx/es_tx_june_1.html
President Obama issued a memorandum directing U.S. government agencies to take additional steps to protect and restore domestic populations of pollinators, including honey bees, native bees, birds, bats, and butterflies – critical contributors to our nation's economy, food system, and environmental health.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/20/presidential-memorandum-creating-federal-strategy-promote-health-honey-b
White House Science-based Pollinator Research Action Plan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/Pollinator%20Research%20Action%20Plan%202015.pdf
As the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Begins in Silicon Valley, New Announcements to Support Inclusive Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Home
As the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Begins in Silicon Valley, New Announcements to Support Inclusive Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Home
Global Entrepreneurship Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/24/fact-sheet-global-entrepreneurship-summit
Remarks by President Obama at Global Entrepreneurship Summit and Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and Entrepreneurs
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/25/remarks-president-global-entrepreneurship-summit-and-conversation-mark
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers a speech on Let Girls Learn
Madrid, Spain
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/30/remarks-first-lady-let-girls-learn-event-madrid-spain
First Lady Michelle Obama is joined by Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto to participate in a conversation with adolescent girls moderated by CNN's Isha Sesay
Marrakech, Morocco
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/28/remarks-first-lady-meryl-streep-freido-pinto-let-girls-learn
First Lady Michelle Obama participates in a discussion with adolescent girls who have faced serious obstacles in attaining an education moderated by actress Freida Pinto
Unification Town, Liberia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/27/remarks-first-lady-after-conversation-girl-students
Op-Ed by First Lady Michelle Obama For Girls, A Heartbreaking Loss — And An Opportunity
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/01/op-ed-first-lady-michelle-obama-girls-heartbreaking-loss-and-opportuni-0
As part of the First Lady's Visit to Morocco, the U.S. Government Announces New Programming to Help Address the Barriers that Prevent Adolescent Girls from Attaining an Education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/28/fact-sheet-part-first-ladys-visit-morocco-us-government-announces-new
First Lady Announces New Let Girls Learn Committment in Liberia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/27/fact-sheet-first-lady-announces-new-let-girls-learn-committment-liberia
President Obama, Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau and Mexico's President Pena Nieto hold a press conference
Great Hall, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/30/remarks-president-obama-prime-minister-trudeau-canada-and-president-pe%C3%B1a
North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership Action Plan
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/29/north-american-climate-clean-energy-and-environment-partnership-action
Leaders' Statement on a North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/29/leaders-statement-north-american-climate-clean-energy-and-environment
United States Key Deliverables for the 2016 North American Leaders' Summit
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/29/fact-sheet-united-states-key-deliverables-2016-north-american-leaders
Weekly Address: Serving our Military Families This Fourth of July.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/02/weekly-address-serving-our-military-families-fourth-july
President Obama delivers remarks at a Fourth of July Celebration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/04/remarks-president-fourth-july-celebration
President Barack H. Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Former President George W. Bush, Former First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden
join others in an interfaith memorial service for the fallen Dallas police officers
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas
http://www.c-span.org/video/?412570-1/president-obama-delivers-remarks-memorial-service-slain-dallas-police-officers
Executive Order — United States Policy on Pre- and Post-Strike Measures to Address Civilian Casualties in U.S. Operations Involving the Use of Force
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/01/executive-order-united-states-policy-pre-and-post-strike-measures
Statement by the President on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/07/statement-president
Readout of the President and Vice President's Meeting with Law Enforcement Leaders
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/11/readout-president-and-vice-presidents-meeting-law-enforcement-leaders
Remarks by the President at Memorial Service for Fallen Dallas Police Officers
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/12/remarks-president-memorial-service-fallen-dallas-police-officers
Remarks by the President After White House Convening on Building Community Trust
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/13/remarks-president-after-white-house-convening-building-community-trust
President Obama Participates in a Town Hall on Race & Policing
http://abcnews.go.com/US/president-obama-participate-town-hall-race-david-muir/story?id=40531818
Weekly Address: Coming Together to Find Solutions
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/16/weekly-address-coming-together-find-solutions
President Obama's Condemnation of the Killing of Baton Rouge Police Officers
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/17/statement-president
President Obama Delivers a Statement on the Killing of Baton Rouge Police Officers
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/17/statement-president-shootings-baton-rouge-louisiana
President Obama's Open Letter to America's Law Enforcement Community
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/07/19/read-president-obamas-open-letter-americas-law-enforcement-community
7/22/16 White House Advancing 21st Century Policing Briefing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/22/remarks-president-drop-21st-century-policing-event
At the Victoria Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vice President Biden Announces New Memoranda of Understanding Between the United States and Australia, New Funding as Part of Cancer Moonshot
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/16/fact-sheet-victoria-comprehensive-cancer-center-vice-president-biden
Remarks by the President at the White House Summit on Global Development
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/20/remarks-president-white-house-summit-global-development
President Obama's Commitment to Global Development
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/20/fact-sheet-president-obamas-commitment-global-development
The White House Summit on Global Development: Reflecting on Real Progress
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/07/14/white-house-summit-global-development-reflecting-real-progress
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – 5th AnniversaryConsumer Financial Protection Bureau – 5th Anniversary
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/consumers-count-five-years-standing-you/
President Obama Speech DNC July 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/28/remarks-president-democratic-national-convention
First Lady Michelle Obama Speech DNC July 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/25/remarks-first-lady-democratic-national-convention
Presidential Proclamation -- Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/25/presidential-proclamation-anniversary-americans-disabilities-act-2016
Report on U.S. Hostage Policy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/hostagepolicyreport.pdf
6/24/15 Executive Order – Hostage Recovery Activities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/24/executive-order-and-presidential-policy-directive-hostage-recovery
Presidential Policy Directive – Hostage Recovery Activities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/24/presidential-policy-directive-hostage-recovery-activities
FBI — Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell Established
https://www.fbi.gov/news/news_blog/hostage-recovery-fusion-cell-established
Statement by the President On the One-Year Anniversary of the Hostage Policy Review
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/24/statement-president-one-year-anniversary-hostage-policy-review
First Lady Michelle Obama and Mrs. Lee Hsien Loong participate in a special performance by students
http://www.pcah.gov/news/turnaround-arts-kids-perform-singapore-prime-minister
List of White House State Dinners given by President Barack Obama:
Nov 24, 2009 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/11/24/first-state-dinner-president-obama-welcomes-his-excellency-dr-manmohan-singh-india
May 19, 2010 Mexican President Felipe Calderon
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/05/19/state-dinner-with-mexico
Jan 19, 2011 Chinese President Hu Jintao
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/president-hu-jintao-china-official-state-visit
Jun 7, 2011 German President Angela Merkel
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/06/07/state-dinner-german-chancellor-merkel
Mar 14, 2012 United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/03/14/uk-state-dinner-whats-menu
Feb 11, 2014 French President François Hollande
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/11/behind-scenes-france-state-dinner-see-menu
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/10/day-life-inside-state-dinner-france-white-house-chefs
Apr 28, 2015 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/29/toast-remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-state-dinner
Sep 25, 2015 Chinese President Xi Jinping
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/25/expected-attendees-tonights-china-state-dinner
March 10, 2016 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/canada_state_dinner_2016.pdf
August 2, 2016 Sinapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/08/02/after-30-years-president-obama-welcomes-singapore-white-house
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/08/260769.htm
Weekly Address: Representing the Best of America in the Summer Olympics
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/08/06/weekly-address-representing-best-america-summer-olympics
Remarks by the First Lady at 2016 Olympics 100 Days Out Countdown
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/27/remarks-first-lady-2016-olympics-100-days-out-countdown
Promoting and Protecting Religious Freedom Around the Globe
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/08/10/fact-sheet-promoting-and-protecting-religious-freedom-around-globe
2016 Federal Bullying Prevention Summit
http://www.stopbullying.gov/blog/categories/Federal-Partners-Bullying-Prevention
Obama Administration Recognizes the 100th Anniversary and Economic Benefits of America's National Parks
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/17/fact-sheet-obama-administration-recognizes-100th-anniversary-and
Remarks by the President at the Designation of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/01/remarks-president-designation-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument
Obama Administration Announces New Policies to Promote Conservation and Build Resilience to Climate Change, with a focus on Pacific Islands
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/01/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-new-policies-promote
The 2016 G-20 Summit in Hangzhou, China
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/05/fact-sheet-2016-g-20-summit-hangzhou-china
Statement by National Security Council Spokesperson Ned Price on U.S.-China Enhanced Control Measures for Fentanyl
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/03/statement-national-security-council-spokesperson-ned-price-us-china
U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/03/fact-sheet-us-china-cooperation-climate-change
The United States Formally Enters the Paris Agreement
https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/president-obama-the-united-states-formally-enters-the-paris-agreement-c02a3853acd9#.cgw0sk5vg
Presidential Proclamation — Labor Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/02/presidential-proclamation-labor-day-2016
President Obama delivers remarks to the People of Laos
Lao National Cultural Hall , Vientiane, Laos
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/06/remarks-president-obama-people-laos
Joint Declaration between the United States of America and the Lao People's Democratic Republic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/06/joint-declaration-between-united-states-america-and-lao-peoples
President Obama Nominates Abid Riaz Qureshi to Serve on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/06/president-obama-nominates-abid-riaz-qureshi-serve-united-states-district
U.S.-Laos relations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/06/fact-sheet-us-laos-relations
Young Southeast Asia Leaders Initiative – Summit in Luang Prabang, Laos
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/07/fact-sheet-young-southeast-asia-leaders-initiative-summit-luang-prabang
U.S.-ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/08/fact-sheet-us-asean-summit-vientiane-laos
U.S.-ASEAN Connect
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/08/fact-sheet-us-asean-connect
U.S. Efforts to Address Trafficking in Persons and Irregular Migration in East Asia and the Pacific
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/08/fact-sheet-us-efforts-address-trafficking-persons-and-irregular
The United States Formally Enters the Paris Agreement
https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/president-obama-the-united-states-formally-enters-the-paris-agreement-c02a3853acd9#.cgw0sk5vg
U.S.-China Climate Change Cooperation Outcomes
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/03/fact-sheet-us-china-cooperation-climate-change
U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/03/fact-sheet-us-china-cooperation-climate-change-0
Presidential Memorandum — Climate Change and National Security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/21/presidential-memorandum-climate-change-and-national-security
President Obama Takes A Historic Step To Address The National Security Implications Of Climate Change
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/21/fact-sheet-president-obama-takes-historic-step-address-national-security
Launching New Public-Private Partnership and Announcing Joint Declaration on Leveraging Open Data for Climate Resilience
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/22/fact-sheet-launching-new-public-private-partnership-and-announcing-joint
Leaders from 100+ Countries Call for Ambitious Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to Phase Down HFCs and Donors Announce Intent to Provide $80 Million of Support
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/22/leaders-100-countries-call-ambitious-amendment-montreal-protocol-phase
Weekly Address: Upholding the Legacy of Those We Lost on September 11th
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/09/10/weekly-address-upholding-legacy-those-we-lost-september-11th
Presidential Proclamation — Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/09/presidential-proclamation-patriot-day-and-national-day-service-and
The First Marine National Monument in the Atlantic Ocean
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/15/fact-sheet-president-obama-continue-global-leadership-combatting-climate
Remarks by President Obama at Our Ocean Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/15/remarks-president-our-ocean-conference
First Ladies Michelle Obama and Laura Bush speak at a forum on the legacy of first ladies
National Archives, Washington, DC
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/16/remarks-first-lady-michelle-obama-and-former-first-lady-laura-bush
Remarks by the First Lady at the United Nations General Assembly Spousal Program
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/19/remarks-first-lady-united-nations-general-assembly-spousal-program
White House Announces Commitments to the Call to Action for Private Sector Engagement on the Global Refugee Crisis
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/20/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-commitments-call-action-private-sector
President Obama at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/21/remarks-president-obama-us-africa-business-forum
Address by President Obama to the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/20/address-president-obama-71st-session-united-nations-general-assembly
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Dedication Ceremony Speakers
https://www.c-span.org/video/?415014-1/smithsonian-national-museum-african-american-history-culture-opens-dc
President Obama delivers remarks at the Opening Ceremony of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/24/remarks-president-dedication-national-museum-african-american-history
Weekly Address: Celebrating the National Museum of African American History and Culture
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/24/weekly-address-celebrating-national-museum-african-american-history-and
The 8th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/26/fact-sheet-8th-annual-white-house-tribal-nations-conference
Remarks by the President at Tribal Nations Conference
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/26/remarks-president-tribal-nations-conference
United States Hosts First-Ever Arctic Science Ministerial to Advance International Research Efforts
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/28/fact-sheet-united-states-hosts-first-ever-arctic-science-ministerial
White House Arctic Science Ministerial
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/05/13/white-house-arctic-science-ministerial-september-28-2016
President Obama Participates in a Discussion with Leonardo DiCaprio and Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/live/sxsl-president-obama-participates-discussion-leonardo-dicaprio-and-dr-katharine-hayhoe
Background on the White House South by South Lawn Event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/03/background-white-house-south-south-lawn-event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/26/sxsw.com/live
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/SXSL
January 20, 2009 National Day Of Renewal And Reconciliation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Renewal_and_Reconciliation
Throwback to FDR's Weekly Fireside Chats
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/weekly_address/
Fuel CAFE Standards: From Peril To Progress
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/01/26/peril-progress-environment
"Executive Order: Use Of Project Labor Agreements [Unions] For Federal Construction Projects
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the_press_office/EXECUTIVEORDERUSEOFPROJECTLABORAGREEMENTSFORFEDERALCONSTRUCTIONPROJECTS/
The Christopher and Dana Reeve's Paralysis Act
https://olpa.od.nih.gov/legislation/111/publiclaws/ChristopherandDanaReeveParalysis.asp
Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
https://www.nationalservice.gov/about/legislation/edward-m-kennedy-serve-america-act
Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_Systems_Acquisition_Reform_Act_of_2009
White House Rural Forum
$3 Billion Invested in Rural Infrastructure Projects
$7.7 Million in New Grants to Bring Broadband to 6 Unserved Communities
$24.4 Million to Fund 80 New Efforts to Support Rural Businesses
$10.9 million invested in 15 new Rural Economic Development Loan (REDL) and Grant (REDG) projects
https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/rural-economic-development-loan-grant-program
$9.1 million invested in 15 new Intermediary Relending Program (IRP) projects
https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/intermediary-relending-program
$1.2 million invested in 4 new Rural Micro-entrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP) projects
https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/rural-microentrepreneur-assistance-program
$3.2 million invested in 46 new Rural Business Development Grant (RBDG) projects
https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/rural-business-development-grants
Grants to Increase Rural Veterans' Access to Health Care
Investing in volunteer service to address the opioid crisis in Rural America
Rural IMPACT Demonstration pilot program
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/04/13/opportunity-all-white-house-rural-council-launches-rural-impact-effort-help-rural-ch
Economic Development Planning Assistance for Rural Communities
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/04/fact-sheet-white-house-rural-forum
On March 20, 2009 First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground on the largest and most expansive vegetable garden to date on the White House lawn. This L-shaped 1,100-square-foot (100 m2) garden is located by the mansion's tennis courts and can be seen from E street. The plot provides more than 55 varieties of vegetables along with fruits that are incorporated into meals made for the Obama family as well as invited guests. Another portion of the yields are donated to the local soup kitchen and the Food Bank Organization. There are 55 varieties of vegetables grown, including: arugula (rocket), cilantro (coriander), tomatillo, hot peppers, spinach, chard, collards, black kale, berries and lettuce. In addition to the seeds selected to be planted are twenty five heirloom seeds and ten different herbs such as anise hyssop and Thai basil. Along with the vegetable garden a beehive was added near the chef's kitchen that is overseen by Charlie Brandts, a beekeeper and White House carpenter. Honey collected from the beehives has been used to brew White House Honey Ale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Vegetable_Garden
Layout of Obama garden
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/assets/documents/garden_layout.pdf
4/9/09 FLOTUS remarks from garden planting event | whitehouse.gov
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/flotus-remarks-garden-planting-event
6/16/09 Remarks by the First Lady at the White House Garden Harvest Party
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-first-lady-white-house-garden-harvest-party
9/30/09 First Lady Michelle Obama was presented with a commendation by the American Public Gardens Association (APGA), for planting the White House Kitchen Garden.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090929006604/en/Lady-Michelle-Obama-Honored-Support-Community-Gardens
3/31/10 Remarks by the First Lady at Spring Garden Planting event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-first-lady-spring-garden-planting-event
10/22/10 The First Lady's Fall 2010 Kitchen Garden Harvest
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/10/22/first-lady-s-fall-2010-kitchen-garden-harvest
3/16/11 Remarks by the First Lady at White House Kitchen Garden Planting
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/16/remarks-first-lady-white-house-kitchen-garden-planting
6/3/11 Remarks by the First Lady at Garden Harvest event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/03/remarks-first-lady-garden-harvest-event
3/26/12 Remarks by the First Lady at White House Kitchen Garden Planting
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/26/remarks-first-lady-white-house-kitchen-garden-planting
5/31/12 May Morning Harvest in the White House Garden
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/05/31/may-morning-harvest-white-house-garden
4/4/13 Remarks by the First Lady at Kitchen Garden Planting Event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/04/remarks-first-lady-kitchen-garden-planting-event
5/28/13 Remarks by the First Lady at White House Kitchen Garden Harvest
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/28/remarks-first-lady-white-house-kitchen-garden-harvest
4/2/14 Remarks by the First Lady at Sixth Annual Kitchen Garden Planting
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/02/remarks-first-lady-sixth-annual-kitchen-garden-planting
10/14/14 First Lady Michelle Obama Speaks at the Annual Fall Harvest
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/video/2014/10/14/first-lady-michelle-obama-speaks-annual-fall-harvest
4/2/15 Remarks by the First Lady at Sixth Annual Kitchen Garden Planting
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/02/remarks-first-lady-sixth-annual-kitchen-garden-planting
6/2/15 First Lady Michelle Obama To Harvest The White House Kitchen Garden, Highlight Pollinators
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/02/first-lady-michelle-obama-harvest-white-house-kitchen-garden-highlight-p
4/5/16 Remarks by the First Lady at Annual Kitchen Garden Planting
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/05/remarks-first-lady-annual-kitchen-garden-planting
10/5/16 Remarks by the First Lady at the White House Kitchen Garden Dedication
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/05/remarks-first-lady-white-house-kitchen-garden-dedication
10/5/16 First Lady Michelle Obama Dedicates White House Kitchen Garden and Highlights Impact of Let's Move! on Healthy Living
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/05/first-lady-michelle-obama-dedicates-white-house-kitchen-garden-and
10/6/16 Remarks by the First Lady at White House Kitchen Garden Harvest
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/07/remarks-first-lady-white-house-kitchen-garden-harvest
Today, the Administration is releasing a list of 100 examples of the profound impact that the President's leadership has had in building U.S. capacity in science, technology, and innovation and bringing that capacity to bear on national goals. The release of this list also marks the milestone of Dr. John P. Holdren becoming, on June 18, 2016, the longest-serving President's Science Advisor since Vannevar Bush pioneered a similar role while serving Presidents Roosevelt and Truman during and after World War II.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/21/impact-report-100-examples-president-obamas-leadership-science
First Lady Michelle Obama at a Reception for the White House Historical Association
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/14/remarks-first-lady-reception-white-house-historical-association
Presidential Memorandum — Establishment of the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to increase the availability of meaningful access to justice for individuals and families and thereby improve the outcomes of an array of Federal programs, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. This Nation was founded in part on the promise of justice for all. Equal access to justice helps individuals and families receive health services, housing, education, and employment; enhances family stability and public safety; and secures the public's faith in the American justice system. Equal access to justice also advances the missions of an array of Federal programs, particularly those designed to lift Americans out of poverty or to keep them securely in the middle class. But gaps in the availability of legal aid — including legal representation, advice, community education, and self-help and technology tools — for America's poor and middle class threaten to undermine the promise of justice for all and constitute a crisis worthy of action by the Federal Government. The majority of Americans who come to court do so without legal aid. They may be left by their economic circumstances to face life-altering events — such as losing a home or custody of children, or escaping domestic violence or elder abuse — on their own. More than 50 million Americans qualify for federally funded civil legal aid, but over half of those who seek assistance are turned away from legal aid organizations, which lack the funds and staff to meet the demand. When people come into contact with or leave the criminal justice system, they are likely to face a range of legal issues. A victim of abuse may need a protective order, or a formerly incarcerated individual may need a driver's license reinstated in order to get a job. Access to legal aid can help put people on a path to self-sufficiency, lead to better outcomes in the civil and criminal justice systems, and enhance the safety and strength of our communities. Increased legal resources in a community can also help courts process cases more effectively and more efficiently, saving time and money.
Federal programs that are designed to help the most vulnerable and underserved among us may more readily achieve their goals if they include legal aid among the range of services they provide. By encouraging Federal departments and agencies to collaborate, share best practices, and consider the impact of legal services on the success of their programs, the Federal Government can enhance access to justice in our communities.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/24/presidential-memorandum-establishment-white-house-legal-aid-interagency
Halloween 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/31/halloween-white-house
Look Inside #HauntedWH
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/31/inside-hauntedwh
10/31/16 Remarks by the President at Halloween Event
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/31/remarks-president-halloween-event
The ApprenticeshipUSA initiative centers on a call to action to expand the use of Registered Apprenticeship to upskill our nation's workers and expand the talent pipeline available to U.S. industries. To advance this effort, and promote the benefits of Apprenticeship for American businesses and workers, President Barack Obama proclaims the week of November as National Apprenticeship Week.
http://oa.doleta.gov/bat.cfm
http://www.dol.gov/featured/apprenticeship/employers
http://www.dol.gov/featured/apprenticeship
http://www.dol.gov/apprenticeship/toolkit.htm
http://doleta.gov/oa/veterans.cfm
http://doleta.gov/leave-doleta.cfm?target=https://21stcenturyapprenticeship.workforce3one.org/view/Industry_Solutions_Through_Registered_Apprenticesh/info
http://doleta.gov/oa/racc.cfm
7/14/14 The First-Ever White House Summit on American Apprenticeship
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/07/14/first-ever-white-house-summit-american-apprenticeship-helping-american-workers-punch
1/21/15 FACT SHEET: Partnering with Employers to Equip Hardworking Americans with the Skills They Need to Advance into Better-Paying Jobs
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/21/fact-sheet-partnering-employers-equip-hardworking-americans-skills-they-
9/10/15 Expanding Apprenticeships to Invest in American Workers …
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/09/10/expanding-apprenticeships-invest-american-workers
FACT SHEET: Investing $90 Million through ApprenticeshipUSA to Expand Proven Pathways into the Middle Class
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/21/fact-sheet-investing-90-million-through-apprenticeshipusa-expand-proven
6/2/16 ApprenticeshipUSA Announcement Questions and Answers
https://www.doleta.gov/oa/pdf/state_grants_FAQ.pdf
10/21/16 FACT SHEET: Investing More Than $50 Million through ApprenticeshipUSA to Expand Proven Pathways into the Middle Class
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/20/fact-sheet-investing-more-50-million-through-apprenticeshipusa-expand
11/8/16 Presidential Proclamation — World Freedom Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/08/presidential-proclamation-world-freedom-day-2016
11/11/16 Remarks by the President on Veterans Day
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/11/remarks-president-veterans-day
11/11/16 FACT SHEET: Ensuring Veterans Have the Tools to Succeed
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/11/fact-sheet-ensuring-veterans-have-tools-succeed
11/11/16 Presidential Memorandum: Advancing Fair Practices by Education and Training Institutions Serving Service Members, Veterans, Eligible Spouses, and Other Family Members
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/11/presidential-memorandum-advancing-fair-practices-education-and-training
Giving Rural America More Tools to Grow and Create Jobs
Posted by Tom Vilsack and Karen Mills on August 16, 2011
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/08/16/giving-rural-america-more-tools-grow-and-create-jobs
Today, the President announced several important new initiatives to continue strengthening the rural economy and to create jobs in rural areas. As part of the White House Rural Council's efforts to improve federal government coordination on rural economic development, the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) have been focused on rural small business growth. And for good reason: Half the people who work in America either own or work for a small business, and two out of three new private sector jobs are created by small businesses. Many of these small businesses are in rural areas and we are making sure that they have the tools they need to grow, create jobs and drive the economy. Today, the President announced a series of initiatives that leverage existing programs and funding to help small businesses and to meet other critical needs in rural communities. This included:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/16/president-announces-new-jobs-initiatives-rural-america
* Committing up to $350 million in SBA growth capital to investors in rural small businesses over the next 5 years
* Launching a series of events to connect private equity and venture capital investors with rural start ups
* Creating teams to link federal funding opportunities with private investors interested in making rural investments
* Making job search information available at 2,800 local USDA offices nationwide
* Making HHS loans available to help more than 1,300 Critical Access Hospitals recruit additional staff
Helping rural hospitals purchase software and hardware to implement health IT
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Funding for Over 900 Projects to Boost Renewable Energy Production, Reduce Energy Costs for Producers and Small Businesses. The grants are being provided through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), a 2008 Farm Bill initiative. REAP offers funds for farmers, ranchers and rural small businesses to purchase and install renewable energy systems and make energy-efficiency improvements. These federal funds leverage other funding sources for small businesses. In all, USDA announced more than $11.6 million in energy grants today. The REAP program is helping many agricultural producers and rural small businesses reduce energy consumption. For example, Simpsons Brothers Greenhouses, LLC in Ovid, Mich., was selected to receive an $18,000 grant to make energy-efficiency improvements to its greenhouse operations, including installing greenhouse energy curtains that are designed to reduce energy consumption. These improvements are expected to reduce the company's energy purchases by 42 percent and save more than $12,000 in annual energy expenses.
http://www.cspan.org/Events/President-Ends-Bus-Tour-With-Town-Hall-Meetings-in-Illinois/10737423544-2/
Farmers Get Pricing Insight Through Market New
http://blogs.usda.gov/2011/08/10/farmers-get-pricing-insight-through-market-news/
Investors seeing gold in farmland, infrastructure. The overall economy may be struggling against a double-dip recession but in farm country the boom times have rarely been better. Farmland prices are setting records and farmer incomes have been buoyed by exports and biofuels, easing the pain of some rough summer weather from drought, floods and fires. Amid China's voracious appetite for grains and worries about climate hurting crops and food supplies in many countries, U.S. agriculture's attraction as the world's breadbasket has become a beacon for Wall Street. Firms like Omaha-based Gavilon, owned by Ospraie, a hedge fund associated with George Soros and Canada-listed Ceres Global Ag have been buying up grain elevators from Wyoming to Toronto. That is unusual: investors owning grain silos. But analysts say it's not what it seems. No one wants to hold corn as a long-term asset, like gold bullion. But storing and moving grain for others has now become a very profitable business.
http://news.yahoo.com/investors-seeing-gold-farmland-infrastructure-133536038.html
BEA Computes that Rural America Personal Income Did Better than Urban America in 2009. Nonmetropolitan counties accounted for 10 percent of overall national earnings, but a whopping 34 percent of the total in the natural resources sector. On the other hand, only about four percent of earnings in the information and professional services industries come from nonmetropolitan counties. Overall, the folks in the more rural areas of the country did better as measured by Personal Income in 2009. Personal Income actually grew in 889 or 44 percent of nonmetropolitan counties in 2009 while it grew in only 39 percent of metropolitan counties.
http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/30/bea-computes-rural-america-personal-income-did-better-urban-america-2009
Last week, Sec. Vilsack announced that USDA was amending the Secretarial Disaster Designation process in order to "deliver faster and more flexible assistance to farmers and ranchers devastated by natural disasters." A natural disaster designation makes all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency loans and other support. The final rule for Secretarial Disaster Designations for drought was amended as follows: "Nearly automatically qualifies a disaster county once it is categorized by the U.S. Drought Monitor as a severe drought for eight consecutive weeks during the growing season. Effective July 12, 1,016 primary counties in 26 states will be designated as natural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA), provided eligibility requirements are met."
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdamediafb?contentid=2012/07/0228.xml&printable=true&contentidonly=true
An Administration-Wide Response to the Drought. As part of that response, the U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that it will provide millions of dollars in assistance to restore livestock lands affected by the drought. The USDA will spend $16 million on technical and financial assistance for those whose crops or herds have suffered. The USDA has also reduced interest rates on its emergency loan program and worked with the major crop insurers to allow farmers to forego interest payments on unpaid premiums until November. The National Credit Union Administration also announced that more than 1,000 credit unions are increasing their lending to small businesses — including farmers. The Department of the Interior announced a plan to provide more relief and flexibility to ranchers whose livestock grazes on public lands, while the Department of the Transportation is working with state governments to provide emergency waivers of federal truck weight regulations and hours of service requirements to drought-stricken communities.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/08/07/administration-wide-response-drought
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/07/fact-sheet-president-obama-leading-administration-wide-drought-response
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/07/remarks-president-rural-council-meeting
Strengthening the Rural Economy – Strengthening Rural Infrastructure
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/cea/factsheets-reports/strengthening-the-rural-economy/strengthening-rural-infrastructure
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
http://www.usda.gov/knowyourfarmer
Healthy Food Financing Initiative
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ocs/programs/community-economic-development/healthy-food-financing
Rural communities will also benefit from the President's proposed American Graduation Initiative. This initiative funds a new online skills laboratory, which will provide free high-quality courses online, especially benefiting rural areas. Teams of experts in subject areas as well as in pedagogy and technology will develop courses, which can then be modified, adapted, and shared, and then made available for free online. Funding from the Recovery Act to develop rural broadband will be important in extending access to these courses to rural communities.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/07/14/investing-education-american-graduation-initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graduation_Initiative
ACT SHEET: Increasing Investment in Rural America
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, the White House Rural Council will host the inaugural Rural Opportunity Investment Conference (ROI) to promote potential investment opportunities that exist throughout rural America. Top leaders from the business community and financial institutions, senior government officials, rural economic development experts and others from across the country, will come together to discuss ways to develop partnerships that create jobs, grow small businesses, and invest in critical rural infrastructure. In conjunction with this event, the White House Rural Council is announcing a $10 billion dollar investment fund to promote rural economic development. This fund will continue to grow the rural economy by increasing access to capital for rural infrastructure projects and speeding up the process of rural infrastructure improvements. The fund is immediately open for business and more investors can now add to the initial $10 billion in available capital.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/24/fact-sheet-increasing-investment-rural-america
Barns for Obama – OFA Ohio
https://youtu.be/hp1Qj-FvmFo
* Approved 1,296 farm loans in 2011
* Expanded broadband internet to 28 new counties
* Funded 169 rural clean energy projects
* Funded 493 rural infrastructure projects
Presidential Proclamation — Veterans Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/08/presidential-proclamation-world-freedom-day-2016
Remarks by the President on Veterans Day
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/11/remarks-president-veterans-day
FACT SHEET: Ensuring Veterans Have the Tools to Succeed
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/11/fact-sheet-ensuring-veterans-have-tools-succeed
Presidential Memorandum: Advancing Fair Practices by Education and Training Institutions Serving Service Members, Veterans, Eligible Spouses, and Other Family Members
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/11/presidential-memorandum-advancing-fair-practices-education-and-training
Fact Sheet: Five Years of Joining Forces – A Call to Action to Americans to Support Service Members, Veterans and Their Families
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/11/fact-sheet-five-years-joining-forces-call-action-americans-support
Weekly Address: Honoring Our Veterans
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/11/12/weekly-address-honoring-our-veterans
President Obama holds a press conference
Lima Convention Centre, Lima, Peru
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/20/press-conference-president-obama-lima-peru
President Obama holds a Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Town Hall
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/20/remarks-president-ylai-town-hall
Fact Sheet: 24th Annual APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/20/fact-sheet-24th-annual-apec-economic-leaders-meeting
Fact Sheet: Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/19/fact-sheet-young-leaders-americas-initiative-ylai
U.S. Efforts To Support Women's Economic Empowerment in APEC
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2016/11/264438.htm
Presidential Proclamation -- National Native American Heritage Month, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/31/presidential-proclamation-national-native-american-heritage-month-2016
Explore American Indian Culture During Native American Heritage Month
https://www.usa.gov/features/explore-american-indian-culture-during-native-american-heritage-month?utm_campaign=%2B%20Education&utm_content=43020904&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
The 2016 Holidays
In our eighth and final Holiday season of the Obama Administration, we present 'The Gift of the Holidays
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/about/inside-white-house/holidays-2016
Celebrating the Gift of the Holidays
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/11/29/celebrating-gift-holidays
Statement by the President on the 75th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/07/statement-president-75th-anniversary-attack-pearl-harbor
Presidential Proclamation — National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/06/presidential-proclamation-national-pearl-harbor-remembrance-day-2016
Presidential Proclamation — Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/09/presidential-proclamation-human-rights-day-and-human-rights-week-2016
President Obama Signs Executive Order to Protect the Northern Bering Sea
http://www.beringseaelders.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Bering-Sea-Elders-Group-press-release-12-09-16-final-w-URL.pdf
http://www.beringseaelders.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/10-Key-Reasons-to-Protect-the-Northern-Bering-Sea-Bering-Strait.pdf
Obama Administration Bans Arctic Ocean from Offshore Oil Drilling Through 2022
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-announces-offshore-oil-and-gas-leasing-plan-2017-2022
Executive Order — Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/09/executive-order-northern-bering-sea-climate-resilience
FACT SHEET: White House Announces Actions to Protect Natural and Cultural Resources in Alaskan Arctic Ocean
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/09/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-actions-protect-natural-and-cultural
President Obama signs the Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/6452/text
United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders' Statement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/20/united-states-canada-joint-arctic-leaders-statement
Presidential Memorandum — Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the Atlantic Coast on the Outer Continental Shelf from Mineral Leasing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/20/presidential-memorandum-withdrawal-certain-areas-atlantic-coast-outer
https://www.arctic.gov/aesc/ministerial.html
1/21/15 Promoting Science-Based Stewardship, Security, and Opportunity in the Arctic Region
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/01/21/promoting-science-based-stewardship-security-and-opportunity-arctic-region
3/27/15 White House Releases Implementation Report on National Strategy for the Arctic
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/03/27/white-house-releases-implementation-report-national-strategy-arctic
8/13/15 Ambassador Mark Brzezinski Appointed Executive Director of the Arctic Executive Steering Committee
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/08/13/ambassador-mark-brzezinski-appointed-executive-officer-arctic-executive-steering
11/30/15 President Obama Answers 6 Questions on Climate Change
https://www.vogue.com/13374071/president-obama-climate-change-cop21-paris/
12/17/15 President Obama, Joining Bear Grylls, Tests Survival Skills in Alaska
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/us/politics/president-obama-joining-bear-grylls-tests-survival-skills-in-alaska.html?_r=2
1/26/16 Coordinating U.S. Actions to Address Arctic Challenges: The Arctic Executive Steering Committee's First Year
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-john-p-holdren/coordinating-us-actions-t_b_9077640.html
1/30/16 Ambassador to the Arctic: Meet President Obama's Point Man for Alaska
http://www.adn.com/article/20160130/ambassador-arctic-meet-president-obamas-point-man-alaska
3/10/16 U.S.-Canada Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/10/us-canada-joint-statement-climate-energy-and-arctic-leadership
5/13/16 U.S.-Nordic Leaders' Summit Joint Statement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/13/us-nordic-leaders-summit-joint-statement
5/13/16 FACT SHEET: U.S.-Nordic Collaboration on Climate Change, the Arctic, and Clean Energy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/13/fact-sheet-us-nordic-collaboration-climate-change-arctic-and-clean
9/28/16 FACT SHEET: United States Hosts First-Ever Arctic Science Ministerial to Advance International Research Efforts
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-announces-offshore-oil-and-gas-leasing-plan-2017-2022
11/18/16 Obama Administration Bans Arctic Ocean from Offshore Oil Drilling Through 2022
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-announces-offshore-oil-and-gas-leasing-plan-2017-2022
12/9/16 Executive Order — Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/09/executive-order-northern-bering-sea-climate-resilience
12/9/16 FACT SHEET: White House Announces Actions to Protect Natural and Cultural Resources in Alaskan Arctic Ocean
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/09/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-actions-protect-natural-and-cultural
12/16/16 President Obama signs the Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/6452/text
12/20/16 United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders' Statement
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/20/united-states-canada-joint-arctic-leaders-statement
12/20/16 Presidential Memorandum — Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the Atlantic Coast on the Outer Continental Shelf from Mineral Leasing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/20/presidential-memorandum-withdrawal-certain-areas-atlantic-coast-outer
The Department of Commerce deployed an Economic Development Assessment Team to Nome, Alaska to help the region diversify, grow its economy, and address challenges related to climate change and community resilience.
https://www.eda.gov/news/press-releases/2016/12/05/ak.htm
President Barack Obama Weekly Address: Pass the 21st Century Cures Act
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/03/weekly-address-pass-21st-century-cures-act
Remarks by the President and the Vice President at the 21st Century Cures Act Bill Signing
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/13/remarks-president-and-vice-president-21st-century-cures-act-bill-signing
Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 34
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/13/statement-press-secretary-hr-34
Presidential Proclamation — Bill of Rights Day, 2016
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/14/presidential-proclamation-bill-rights-day-2016
225th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights
https://www.archives.gov/calendar/bill-of-rights-225
Remarks by the President at Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/09/remarks-president-commemoration-150th-anniversary-13th-amendment
Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2854/text
Statement by the President on the 75th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/07/statement-president-75th-anniversary-attack-pearl-harbor
President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers remarks at the USS Arizona Memorial, USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Hawai'i
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/28/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-pearl-harbor
Presidential Proclamation — Establishment of the Gold Butte National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/28/presidential-proclamation-establishment-gold-butte-national-monument
Proclamation — Establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/28/proclamation-establishment-bears-ears-national-monument
Statement by the President on the Designation of Bears Ears National Monument and Gold Butte National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/28/fact-sheet-president-obama-designate-new-national-monuments-protecting
FACT SHEET: President Obama to Designate New National Monuments Protecting Significant Natural and Cultural Resources in Utah and Nevada
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/28/fact-sheet-president-obama-designate-new-national-monuments-protecting
"Income gains were actually larger for households at the bottom and the middle than for those at the top."
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/809847504216981506/photo/1
"Last year, the poverty rate fell at the fastest rate in almost fifty years" —@POTUS in the end-of-year press conference
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/809847383085486080/photo/1
Longest streak of total job growth on record ✓
Fastest wage growth since the start of the recovery ✓http://go.wh.gov/DwLXTv
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/817389383074639874/photo/1
Interior Department Announces 24 New National Historic Landmarks
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-24-new-national-historic-landmarks
The 24 national historic landmarks announced today are:
Medgar and Myrlie Evers House in Jackson, Mississippi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers
The Wyandotte National Burying Ground (Eliza Burton Conley Burial Site) in Kansas City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron_Cemetery
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schomburg_Center_for_Research_in_Black_Culture
The Greenhills Historic District in Greenhills, Ohio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhills_Historic_District
Chicano Park in San Diego, California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicano_Park
Casa José Antonio Navarro in San Antonio, Texa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Navarro_State_Historic_Site
The Neutra Studio and Residences (VDL Research House) in Los Angeles, California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutra_VDL_Studio_and_Residences
The Keim Homestead in Oley, Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keim_Homestead
Schifferstadt in Frederick, Maryland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schifferstadt_(Frederick,_Maryland)
The New York State Barge Canal in New York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Canal_System
The Kimball Village Site (13PM4) in Plymouth county, Iowa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimball_Village
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission Chapel (McDonnell Hall) in San Jose, California
https://www.nps.gov/nhl/news/LC/fall2016/OurLadyofGuadalupeChapel.pdf
The Painted Desert Community Complex in Apache County, Arizona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Desert_Community_Complex_Historic_District
W. A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop in Rices Landing, Pennsylvania
http://www.co.greene.pa.us/secured/gc2/history/foundry/foundry.htm
The Davis-Ferris Organ, Round Lake Camp Meeting in Upstate New York
https://www.nps.gov/nhl/news/LC/fall2016/DavisFerrisOrganES.pdf
The Pauli Murray Family Home in Durham, North Carolina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray
Eldean Bridge in Miami County, Ohio
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/OH1918/
West Union Bridge in Parke County, Indiana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Union_Covered_Bridge_(Indiana)
Omaha Union Station in Omaha Nebraska
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(Omaha)
The George Read II House in New Castle, Delaware
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011632171/
The Biesterfeldt Site in Ransom County, North Dakota
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biesterfeldt_Site
Walrus Islands Archeological District near Togiak, Alaska
https://www.nps.gov/nhl/news/LC/fall2016/WalrusIslandsArcheoDistrict(Redacted).pdf
48GO305 aka "Hell Gap Paleoindian Site," located in Goshen County, Wyoming
https://www.nps.gov/nhl/news/LC/fall2016/48GO305ES.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gap_archaeological_site
Kent State Shootings Site in Kent, Ohio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
1/12/17 FACT SHEET: President Obama Designates National Monuments Honoring Civil Rights History
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/fact-sheet-president-obama-designates-national-monuments-honoring-civil
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/statement-president-designating-monuments-honoring-civil-rights-histor-0
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-applauds-presidents-designation-national-monuments-preserve-pivotal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-names-five-new-national-monuments-including-southern-civil-rights-sites/2017/01/12/7f5ce78c-d907-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.2ce7e6d1306a
1/12/17 Presidential Proclamation — Boundary Enlargement of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/presidential-proclamation-boundary-enlargement-cascade-siskiyou-national
1/12/17 Presidential Proclamation — Boundary Enlargement of the California Coastal National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/presidential-proclamation-boundary-enlargement-california-coastal
1/12/17 Presidential Proclamations — Establishment of the Reconstruction Era National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/presidential-proclamations-establishment-reconstruction-era-national
1/12/17 Presidential Proclamations — Establishment of the Freedom Riders National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/presidential-proclamations-establishment-freedom-riders-national
1/12/17 Presidential Proclamations — Establishment of the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/presidential-proclamations-establishment-birmingham-civil-rights
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Eight Years of Labor Market Progress
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2017/01/06/eight-years-labor-market-progress-and-employment-situation-[/url]
Op-Ed: The Ingredients for Getting the Middle Class Back on Track
The Wall Street Journal
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/20150311_middle_class_incomes_wsj.pdf[/url]
March 11, 2015
Inclusive Growth: The Role of Productivity, Inequality, and Participation
Bruegel
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160511_cea_bruegel_us_europe.pdf[/url]
May 11, 2016
Global Lessons for Inclusive Growth
The Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA)
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/global_lessons_for_inclusive_growth_iiea_jf.pdf[/url]
May 7, 2014
Productivity Growth in the Advanced Economies: The Past, the Present, and Lessons for the Future
Peterson Institute for International Economics
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/20150709_productivity_advanced_economies_piie.pdf[/url]
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/20150709_productivity_advanced_economies_piie_slides.pdf[/url]
July 9, 2015
Business Investment in the United States: Facts, Explanations, Puzzles, and Policies
Progressive Policy Institute
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/20150709_productivity_advanced_economies_piie_slides.pdf[/url]
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20150930_business_investment_in_us_facts_explanation s_puzzles_policies_slides.pdf[/url]
September 30, 2015
The New View of Fiscal Policy and Its Application
Conference: Global Implications of Europe’s Redesign
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20161011_furman_suerf_fiscal_policy_cea.pdf[/url]
October 05, 2016
Beyond Antitrust: The Role of Competition Policy in Promoting Inclusive Growth
Searle Center Conference on Antitrust Economics and Competition Policy
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160916_searle_conference_competition_furman_cea.p df[/url]
September 16, 2016
A Firm-Level Perspective on the Role of Rents in the Rise in Inequality
Event in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz: Columbia University
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20151016_firm_level_perspective_on_role_of_rents_in_ inequality.pdf[/url]
October 16, 2015
Benefits of Competition and Indicators of Market Power
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160414_cea_competition_issue_brief.pdf[/url]
April 2016
May 2016 Update: [url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160502_competition_issue_brief_updated_cea.pdf[/url]
Labor Market Monopsony: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Responses
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20161025_monopsony_labor_mrkt_cea.pdf[/url]
October 2016
The Long-Term Decline in Prime-Age Male Labor Force Participation
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160620_cea_primeage_male_lfp.pdf[/url]
June 2016
Is This Time Different? The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
New York University: AI Now Symposium
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160707_cea_ai_furman.pdf[/url]
July 7, 2016
Op-Ed: Smart Social Programs
The New York Times
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20150511_smart_social_programs_nyt.pdf[/url]
May 11, 2015
The War on Poverty 50 Years Later: A Progress Report
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/50th_anniversary_cea_report_-_final_post_embargo.pdf[/url]
January 2014
Updated Report (as it appeared in Chapter 6 of the 2014 ERP):
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/erp_2014_chapter_6.pdf[/url]
The Economics of Early Childhood Investments
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/the_economics_of_early_childhood_investments.pdf[/url]
December 2014
January 2015 Update:
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/early_childhood_report_update_final_non-embargo.pdf[/url]
Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160423_cea_incarceration_criminal_justice.pdf[/url]
April 2016
Economic Costs of Youth Disadvantage and High-Return Opportunities for Change
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/mbk_report_final_update1.pdf[/url]
July 2015
Poverty and the Tax Code
Democracy Journal
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/democracy_article_on_poverty_and_the_tax_code_jf.pdf[/url]
March 19, 2014
Thirty Years Without Fundamental Reform: Policy, Politics, and the Federal Tax Code
New York State Bar Association Tax Section
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20160126_thirty_years_without_fundamental_reform_pol icy_politics_federal_tax_code.pdf[/url]
January 26, 2016
Long-Term Interest Rates: A Survey
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/interest_rate_report_final_v2.pdf[/url]
July 2015
Occupational Licensing: A Framework for Policymakers
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/licensing_report_final_nonembargo.pdf[/url]
July 2015
Barriers to Shared Growth: The Case of Land Use Regulation and Economic Rents
The Urban Institute
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20151120_barriers_shared_growth_land_use_regulation_ and_economic_rents.pdf[/url]
November 20, 2015
The Economic Benefits of U.S. Trade
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/cea_trade_report_final_non-embargoed_v2.pdf[/url]
May 2015
Explaining the U.S. Petroleum Consumption Surprise
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/explaining_us_petroleum_consumption_surprise_final.pdf[/url]
June 2015
The Economics of Family-Friendly Workplace Policies
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2015_erp_chapter_4.pdf[/url]
The 70th Anniversary of the Council of Economic Advisers
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/ERP_2016_Chapter_7.pdf[/url]
The Economic Record of the Obama Administration: Overall Economic Progress
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/chapter_1-eight_years_of_recovery_reinvestment_2017.pdf[/url]
The Economic Record of the Obama Administration: Progress Reducing Inequality
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/chapter_3-progress_reducing_inequality_2017.pdf[/url]
The Economic Record of the Obama Administration: Reforming the Health Care System
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/chapter_4-reforming_health_care_system_2017.pdf[/url]
The Economic Record of the Obama Administration: Investing in Higher Education
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/chapter_5-investing_in_higher_education_2017.pdf[/url]
The Economic Record of the Obama Administration: Strengthening the Financial System
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/chapter_6-strengthening_financial_system_2017.pdf[/url]
The Economic Record of the Obama Administration: Addressing Climate Change
[url]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/chapter_7-addressing_climate_change_2017.pdf[/url]
Council of Economic Advisors
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/council-economic-advisors
Department of Commerce
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-commerce
Department of Defense
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-defense
Department of Education
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-education
Department of Energy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-energy
Department of Health and Human Services
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-health-and-human-services
Department of Homeland Security
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-homeland-security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-housing-urban-development
Department of the Interior
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-interior
Department of Justice
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-justice
Department of Labor
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-labor
Department of State
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-state
Department of Transportation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-transportation
Department of the Treasury
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-treasury
Department of Veteran Affairs
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/department-veterans-affairs
Environmental Protection Agency
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/environmental-protection-agency
General Services Administration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/general-services-administration
Millennium Challenge Corporation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/millennium-challenge-corporation
Office of Management and Budget
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/office-management-and-budget
Office of Personnel Management
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/office-personnel-management
Office of Science and Technology Policy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/office-science-and-technology-policy
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/overseas-private-investment-corporation
Small Business Administration
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/small-business-administration
United States Agency for International Development
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/united-states-agency-international-development
United States Department of Agriculture
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/united-states-department-agriculture
United States Trade Representative
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/united-states-trade-representative
United States Mission to the United Nations
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/cabinet/exit-memos/united-states-mission-united-nations
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