What Government Did Today

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:35 P.M. EDT MR.

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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, 5/7/12

Washington-Lee High School Arlington, Virginia 11:53 A.M.

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Remarks by the President on College Affordability

TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE May 1, 2012 Dear Mr.

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Letter — Prohibiting Certain Transactions with and Suspending Entry into the United States of Foreign Sanctions Evaders with Respect to Iran and Syria

Washington Hilton Hotel Washington, D.C. 10:38 A.M

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Remarks by the President at the Building and Construction Trades Department Conference

Private Residence McLean, Virginia   5:57 P.M. EDT   PRESIDENT CLINTON:  Hey!  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you very much.  (Applause.)  First of all, I want to thank mostly Dorothy for having us here.  (Laughter.)  Terry actually likes it when there are hundreds of people in his back yard.  (Laughter.)  And I'm delighted that their — four of their five children are here — Jack, Mary, Sally and Peter.  Dori, their other daughter, is off playing in a national tournament in lacrosse.  Jack plays rugby for the Naval Academy, where he is in his first year — and I'm very proud of him for his service he's doing.  (Applause.)   I love poor Terry McAuliffe.  He's so laid back and repressed.  (Laughter.)  He just can't express himself.  (Laughter.)  I worry about him.  But I tell you what, we had a hundred more like him we wouldn't lose as many elections — (laughter) — he is a — and I'm grateful.  (Applause.)   My job is to introduce the President.  I'm going to tell you a couple of things I hope you'll remember and share with others.  When you become President, your job is to explain where we are, say where you think we should go, have a strategy to get there, and execute it.  By that standard, Barack Obama deserves to be reelected President of the United States.  (Applause.)  And I'm going to tell you the only reason we're even meeting here.  I mean, this is crazy — he's got an opponent who basically wants to do what they did before, on steroids — (laughter) — which will get you the same consequences you got before, on steroids.  (Laughter.)   So let's be serious here.  When then-Senator Obama was running for President, he laid out a forward-looking plan to restore broad-based prosperity with a 21st century economy in the United States, to advance the national security of America, and to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries.  And if he had taken office in that world and implemented those plans in energy, education, health care and across the board — which he has done — we'd be roaring.    But then what happened?  September the 15th, 2008, we had a financial crash — only seven weeks before the election.  And it didn't bottom out till he he'd been President six months and before any of his policies had time to take effect.  If you go back 500 years, whenever a country's financial system collapses, it takes between 5 and 10 years to get back to full employment.  If you go back for the last 200 years, when buildings had been widely owned by individuals and companies, if there's a mortgage collapse it almost always takes 10 years.  He's beating the clock, not behind it.  Don't listen to those Republicans.  We are beating the clock.  (Applause.)   So if somebody says, well, but I don't feel all that great yet, or not everything is back yet, or it's still kind of slow yet, you just remind them we've gotten 4 million jobs since the recession bottomed out; the ones we lost in the crash have been restored.  Thanks to the stimulus which kept unemployment one and a half to two points lower than it would have been.  Thanks to his restructuring of the American automobile industry, which saved a million and a half jobs and created 84,000 more.  (Applause.)  Thanks to the astonishing agreement between labor and management and the environmental groups and the federal government to raise mileage standards on cars that will create 150,000 high-tech jobs and clean the environment for our future.  These are the things that have been done.

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Remarks by President Obama and Former President Clinton at a Campaign Event

Today, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Stewart in Georgia where the President will sign an Executive Order to help ensure all of America’s service members, veterans, spouses, and other family members have the information they need to make informed educational decisions and are protected from aggressive and deceptive targeting by educational institutions.

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Background on the President and First Lady’s Visit to Fort Stewart

On Friday, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Stewart in Georgia where the President will sign an Executive Order to help ensure all of America’s service members, veterans, spouses, and other family members have the information they need to make informed educational decisions and are protected from aggressive and deceptive targeting by educational institutions.

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We Can’t Wait: President Obama Takes Action to Stop Deceptive and Misleading Practices by Educational Institutions that Target Veterans, Service Members and their Families

On Friday, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Stewart in Georgia where the President will sign an Executive Order to help ensure all of America’s service members, veterans, spouses, and other family members have the information they need to make informed educational decisions and are protected from aggressive and deceptive targeting by educational institutions. We have a sacred trust with those who serve and protect our nation

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We Can’t Wait: President Obama Takes Action to Stop Deceptive and Misleading Practices by Educational Institutions that Target Veterans, Service Members and their Families

Today, the Senate took bipartisan action to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.  Now, it’s time for the House to move quickly and pass the bill.  In 2012, we should be beyond questioning the need for the Violence Against Women Act. This law has been overwhelmingly successful since it was first enacted 17 years ago to improve the criminal justice response to this violent crime and to assist those who experience this abuse.  Since then, the law has twice been reauthorized with the broad support of members of both parties.  It should still be bigger than politics today.   We’ve made a lot of progress, but the Violence Against Women Act is as important today as it’s ever been.  The Senate’s action today reaffirms that addressing this problem is bigger than politics.   Now the House needs to act so the President can sign this vital legislation as soon as possible.  ###

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Statement from Vice President Biden on the Violence Against Women Act

New York University, Tishman Auditorium New York, New York 10:59 A.M.

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Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden on Foreign Policy at a Camapaign Event