Justice Department’s Clemency Initiative Moving Slowly, Staff Cannot Handle Inmate Applications
The Justice Department’s efforts to shorten drug sentences using Obama’s clemency powers has gotten off to a slow start. In explaining the issues surrounding this initiative, a former attorney-adviser at…
FACT SHEET: The President’s Global Development Council’s Second Report
President Obama’s Global Development Policy, released in the fall of 2010, elevated development as a core pillar of American power and recognized global development as a strategic, economic, and moral…
Statement by the President on the Passing of B.B. King
The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend. B.B. King was born a sharecropper’s son in Mississippi, came of age in Memphis, Tennessee, and became the…
Message –Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Burma
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days…
Notice –Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Burma
NOTICE – – – – – – – CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO BURMA On May 20, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 13047, certifying to the…
Statement by NSC Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan on Deputy National Security Advisor Benjamin Rhodes’ Meeting with ASEAN Officials
Today, Deputy National Security Advisor Benjamin Rhodes welcomed to the White House senior officials from all ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for a warm…
Remarks by Dr. Jill Biden at Central Piedmont Community College Commencement Address
AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY Charlotte, North Carolina Good afternoon everyone! Teachers, families, graduates: I am so honored to be back in Charlotte for such an important day. Graduating from college…
Remarks by President Obama in Press Conference after GCC Summit
Aspen Cabin Camp David 5:53 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good evening. Before I get to what we discussed here today with our Gulf partners, I want to, again, express my…
Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate
NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Leslie E. Bains, of New York, to be a Director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation for a term expiring December 31, 2015, vice William…
President Obama to Award the Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON, DC – On June 2, 2015, President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Army Sergeant William Shemin and to Army Private Henry Johnson for conspicuous gallantry…