From the White House: THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Of all the responsibilities the Constitution endows to Congress, two should be fairly simple: pass a budget, and pay America’s bills. But if the United States Congress does not fulfill its responsibility to pass a budget today, much of the United […]
Top White House aide and advisor Dan Pfeiffer was hospitalized earlier this month for stroke-like symptoms. Pfeiffer fell ill during dinner on September 4, and checked into George Washington Hospital. After checking out, he went back days later. Doctors blamed hypertension for the symptoms. According to the New York Times’s […]
From the White House: Earlier today, I spoke with Larry Summers and accepted his decision to withdraw his name from consideration for Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Larry was a critical member of my team as we faced down the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and it was […]
From the White House: I welcome the progress made between the United States and Russia through our talks in Geneva, which represents an important, concrete step toward the goal of moving Syria’s chemical weapons under international control so that they may ultimately be destroyed. This framework provides the opportunity for […]
