Don’t Miss the Deadline for Tomorrow’s YouTube Q & A with President Obama
After more than 11,000 questions and 630,000 votes , the folks from CitizenTube who will interview President Obama tomorrow have reminded everyone that the deadline for submitting questions is tonight at 8pm EST : On Monday afternoon, as a follow-up to his State of the Union address, President Obama will give a live interview to YouTube from the White House — and every single question will come from you. You can submit your questions in video or in text, and you can vote on which questions you think should be asked on CitizenTube. Your votes will determine the top questions posed during the discussion with the President. The deadline for submission is Sunday night at 8 p.m. EST. The event will be available at both YouTube.com and WhiteHouse.gov/live and starts at 1:45pm EST.
Don’t Miss the Deadline for Tomorrow’s YouTube Q & A with President Obama
After more than 11,000 questions and 630,000 votes , the folks from CitizenTube who will interview President Obama tomorrow have reminded everyone that the deadline for submitting questions is tonight at 8pm EST : On Monday afternoon, as a follow-up to his State of the Union address, President Obama will give a live interview to YouTube from the White House — and every single question will come from you. You can submit your questions in video or in text, and you can vote on which questions you think should be asked on CitizenTube. Your votes will determine the top questions posed during the discussion with the President. The deadline for submission is Sunday night at 8 p.m. EST. The event will be available at both YouTube.com and WhiteHouse.gov/live and starts at 1:45pm EST.
Still Not a "Government Takeover"
In an appearance on a morning news show today, House Minority Leader John Boehner repeatedly charged that the health insurance reform bills being considered in Congress represent a “big government takeover” of health care. It’s important to know that’s just not true. The claim of a “government takeover” is a time-worn attack raised by opponents of reform whenever real change is in sight. But the bills passed by the House and Senate would enact nothing of the sort. The legislation would create a marketplace where private insurance companies would compete for business, and it would expand coverage by providing subsidies for Americans to purchase affordable coverage from private insurers. At the same time, the legislation would put the brakes on rising health care costs and put an end to insurance company abuses. That’s not a “government takeover”: it’s the solution to problems that have plagued our health care system for decades and slowed American competitiveness. And if the specifics sound familiar, it’s because this legislation is very much like the bipartisan approach proposed by former Senate leaders Bob Dole, Howard Baker, and Tom Daschle, and the health care system supported by Senator-elect Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, the knowing repetition of false claims has become a defining characteristic of this debate – and as the President said on Friday to House Republicans, that’s a loss for everyone: “So I am absolutely committed to working with you on these issues, but it can’t just be political assertions that aren’t substantiated when it comes to the actual details of policy.
New Reports from Recovery Act Recipients
A short time ago, the independent Recovery and Transparency Board posted the latest round of reports from recipients of Recovery Act dollars on Recovery.gov.
Tough Choices
During these tough economic times, American families are forced to make tough choices about what they can spend money on and what they need to cut from their household budgets. Through the course of the budget process we did the same thing. The President believes we need to be honest about what is working and what isn’t and that making tough choices about which programs to fund and which to reduce or terminate is part of governing. In the 2011 Budget we will release on Monday we terminated or reduced programs that weren’t working well or duplicated efforts, some in areas that are important to the President and to the Administration. Last year, President Obama sought to end or reduce 121 programs for a one-year savings of approximately $17 billion of which $11.5 billion was from discretionary savings.
Weekly Address: Reining in Budget Deficits
The President pledges to rein the deficit, citing three specific steps to this end. He praises the Senate for restoring the pay-as-you-go law, discusses his proposal for a freeze in discretionary spending, and calls for a bipartisan Fiscal Commission to hammer out further concrete deficit reduction proposals.
The President Holds an Open Discussion Across the Aisle
Click here to see the video. Today the President did something unusual in American politics –
S. 369, Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act
Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 15, 2009
H.R. 4462, An act to accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti
Direct spending and revenues effects estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on January 21, 2010, and signed by the President on January 22, 2010
H.R. 3562, A bill to designate the federally occupied building located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "James Chaney,…
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on January 27, 2010
Helping Middle Class Families with Soaring Child Care Costs
This week, the Middle Class Task Force unveiled a series of initiatives in the President’s FY 11 budget aimed at helping families with soaring child care costs, balancing work with caregiving, paying for college and saving for retirement.
Young Women Scholars Highlight President’s Commitment to STEM
Ed. note: Learn more about the Educate to Innovate campaign Two remarkable young women sat with First Lady Michelle Obama during the President’s State of the Union address, representing President Obama’s commitment to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education (STEM). Li Boynton, an 18-year-old senior from Bellaire, Texas, was a winner of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last year for developing a new and potentially ground-breaking method for testing the quality of drinking water, an accomplishment that could someday help the one billion people around the world lacking potable water. Having learned about the limitations and significant expense of conventional chemical-specific tests, Boynton saw a need for a broader, more efficient assay for testing — and developed a bacterial bio-sensor. Li’s work has the potential to improve public health worldwide. Li’s passion for science and innovation can be traced back to fifth grade, when she designed a solar-distillation device after reading Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, a novel involving a shipwreck. The device would come in handy, she reasoned, if she ever got stranded in the middle of the ocean. Also sitting with the First Lady was Gabriela Farfan, a 19-year-old Stanford University freshman and geology major from Madison, Wisconsin, who won one of the top awards in the Intel Science Talent Search for her independent research describing why certain gemstones appear to change color when viewed from different angles—work that has potential applications in nanotechnology and materials science. Gabriela is also a Hispanic Scholar awardee. After getting an invitation from the White House last week, the two young women flew to Washington
75,000 White House Visitor Records Posted Online
In September, the President announced that – for the first time in history – the White House would release visitor records.