The special election to fill the open Congressional seat in New York’s 20th district is tomorrow — Tuesday, March 31st. For weeks now volunteers have been canvassing and phonebanking to help Get Out The Vote in what’s expected to be an extremely close race. Earlier this evening, President Obama sent a message to his supporters [...]
Today’s Senate calendar:
Convenes: 11:00am Begin consideration of the Budget Resolution reported by the Budget committee.
With debate now underway, a final vote on the Senate and House budget resolutions is expected within the next few days. For almost a month now, supporters across the country have worked to raise awareness of the importance of this [...]
President Obama announced this morning that the government will offer struggling auto companies GM and Chrysler a limited period of time to fundamentally restructure in a way that would justify an investment of additional taxpayer dollars. "While Chrysler and GM are very different companies with very different paths forward," the President said, "both need a [...]
The President will be delivering remarks on the auto industry, starting at 11:00 AM Eastern today. You can watch a live stream of the event at WhiteHouse.gov/live. Later in the day, WhiteHouse.gov will also be carrying live streams of the Daily Press Briefing with Robert Gibbs and the President’s signing of the the Omnibus Public [...]
The LA Times apparently wants to compete with the NY Times for the most passive aggressive coverage of First Lady Michelle Obama. Not to be confused with the aggressive aggressive coverage from Politico.com or the graffitti scrawled bathroom wall coverage from that website that shall not be named.
In this edition of “Real Journalism is Dead”, [...]
In his interview with Bob Schieffer that aired this morning, President Obama spoke at length about his new plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan. From WhiteHouse.gov, here’s the full video of the President laying out the details of this new plan this past Friday:
In his interview with Bob Schieffer that aired this morning, President Obama [...]
From Organizing for America Deputy Director Jeremy Bird:
During the election, you stepped up and made calls to potential supporters around the country. Your efforts built this movement from the ground up and elected a President.
But as President Obama said, that victory alone was not the change we seek, only the chance to make that [...]
CBS’s Face the Nation aired a pre-recorded interview with President Obama this morning. Bob Schieffer spoke with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office about ending the war in Afganistan, Mexico’s drug violence and restoring the economy and the American dream. You can watch the full interview below:
CBS’s Face the Nation aired a pre-recorded interview [...]
Almost a hundred thousand participants accounted for more than three and a half million votes in the first round of the White House’s Open for Questions online forum. Last Thursday, President Obama held the first ever online town hall to answer some of the top questions. In case you missed it, here’s the video of [...]
Photo: Volunteers in Portland, Oregon continue phonebanking in the dark when the lights went out the night before the November 2008 election.
Tonight is Earth Hour, in which nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries are joining in a global event to promote energy conservation and raise awareness for the need to take action [...]
