This just in - White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers has resigned. After presiding over 300+ White House events and helping to make it the People’s House, Rogers will call it quits next month. It’s a few months later than what I predicted, but nonetheless it has happened. According to Politico…
White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers will leave her [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama has embarked on an ambitious goal, to eliminate food deserts in 7 years. But what are food deserts? Let us define them before we talk about the goal that she has set for us as a nation. In the video below FLOTUS explains what food deserts are and her plan to eliminate them as [...]
UPDATED: The event has now ended, but we’ll have more coverage of today’s Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform later tonight.
Today’s Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform is still underway. You can watch live here.
Today’s the day: At 10:00 a.m. Eastern, President Obama will convene the bipartisan health reform meeting at the Blair House, just a short walk from the White House.
You can watch the full meeting here beginning at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, complete with live commentary and updates from Organizing for America.
Today’s meeting is a critical step [...]
This morning, the Senate passed a jobs bill that invests in infrastructure and encourages businesses to hire new workers. The bill passed 70-28, with bipartisan support from the 13 Republicans voting in favor of the bill.
The Washington Post reported:
The Senate easily passed a billion jobs bill on Wednesday morning amid hope that the measure [...]
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that the Recovery Act created approximately 2.1 million jobs in the fourth quarter of 2009 — in other words, it works. The CBO said that the stimulus package boosted the economy by up to 3.5 percent, and lowered the unemployment rate by up to 2.1 percent during that time. [...]
From Mitch Stewart:
Tomorrow, the President will be hosting leaders from both parties at a bipartisan meeting about how to reform our broken health insurance system. It’s a critical step toward getting the job done on health reform — and a historic moment you won’t want to miss.
Senators and representatives will gather with the President to [...]
At 1:45 p.m. Eastern this afternoon, White House Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle will hold a live video chat to talk about health reform and answer questions about the President’s proposal. You can watch it here at WhiteHouse.gov/live.
In advance of tomorrow’s bipartisan meeting, the President released his own health reform proposal that bridges the differences [...]
I usually save these for Gina. We all know Robin Givhan and Nia-Malika Henderson are her girls but I had to comment on both of their recent articles on First Lady Michelle Obama. The entire time I was reading these articles all I kept thinking was, “Wait for it. Wait for it.” But alas no [...]
This is Gina. Oh it can’t get any better. My favorite First Lady and my absolute favorite television (ok I watch the show on a computer technically-YAY HULU.com) show come together. It doesn’t get any better than this. The First lady has invited the cast of Glee to the White House for the the annual [...]
