Sir Paul McCartney invited the Jonas Brothers to perform with him at the White House, to play for President Obama’s daughters Malia and Sasha. The former beatle said that “I know my six-year-old and the kids in her class are more likely to be excited by the Jonas guys”, and added he is “a very [...]
President Barack Obama today signs the Wall Street reform bill, a bill which is aimed to change the way big financial companies do business. It’s the biggest reform act of the financial regulatory system in the U.S. since the great depression. The reform bill is going to create a new council of regulators, the Financial [...]
President Obama announced the new national strategy for fighting HIV and AIDS. The goal is to cut infection rates by 25% in the next five years, treat 85% of infected people three months after diagnoses, and shift health funds to help gay people and African American men because they are at highest risk of contracting [...]
The White House announced that President Obama will Nominate Jacob Lew as the next director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Jacob Lew served as President Bill Clinton’s budget chief between 1998 and 2001, worked as managing director of Citi Alternative Investments and he is currently the Deputy Secretary of State for [...]
President Obama called on Congress today to avert a 21 percent cut in payments to physicians who treat Medicare patients in his weekly radio address. He also reiterated his commitment to permanent reform of the Medicare physician payment formula. “I realize that simply kicking these cuts down the road another year is not a long-term [...]
