Statements and Releases

Joint Statement by President Dmitriy Medvedev of the Russian Federation and President Barack Obama of the United States of America

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts 04-01-09

Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals for key administration posts: Martha J. Kanter, Under Secretary of Education; Krysta Harden, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, United States Department of Agriculture; and Stephen A. Owens, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency.

Background Readout by Senior Administration Officials on President Obama's Meeting with President Hu Jintao of China

MR. HAMMER: Good afternoon, everybody. As promised, we're going to do a readout of the Chinese bilat with President Hu. We have here two individuals who will be briefing as senior administration officials on background.

Background Readout to the Travel Pool by Senior Administration Officials on President Obama's Meeting with Chinese President Hu

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I’ll just start briefly by saying the President accepted an invitation to visit China sometime in the later half of this year. And we’ll go from there.

Background Readout By Senior Administration Officials On President Obama's Meeting With Russian President Medvedev

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Thank you, all. We just came from the meeting with our two Presidents. You saw, I think, already what they said publicly. Let me report that in the meeting, which I think went 70 minutes altogether, most of which was with our delegations but some of which was in a private meeting between the two of them -- we released the two documents which you already have.

Vice President Joe Biden and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announce Recovery Act Funding for Single Family Housing

Vice President Joe Biden and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun disbursing the first wave of the $10 billion in guaranteed housing loans provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) to help spur economic and home ownership opportunities in rural America.

Readout of the President 's call with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

The President spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu today. The President congratulated the Prime Minister after his swearing-in yesterday, and reaffirmed the United States' steadfast commitment to Israel and its security.

Background Readout To The Travel Pool By Senior Adminstration Officials On President Obama s Meeting With Russian President Medvedev

SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Thank you all. So we just did what I think was a very successful first meeting, focused on real issues. It was not just a "let's get to know each other." As you'll see by the two documents that have been released -- you probably all have them by now -- we established -- we did a lot of work before this meeting, and that was on purpose. The idea was to use this meeting to push things forward.

Vice President Biden and Secretary Vilsack Highlight Recovery Act's Help to Rural Health Clinics

Today, Vice President Biden and Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited Faison, North Carolina to tour the Goshen Medical Center, which is a community health center receiving Recovery Act funds and serves Duplin, Eastern Sampson and Southern Wayne Counties.

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