"Every Child, Every Opportunity, Every Time"

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Published June 7, 2010 at 7:09 p.m.
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Ed Note: Today, President Obama delivered the commencement address at Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  View an interactive map of commencement addresses delivered by the President, Vice President, First Lady, Second Lady and senior administration officials here ... Click here to see the video ... Do you remember your high school commencement speaker?  The class of 2010 at Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan will probably never forget theirs.  Today,

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Excerpts from President Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Kalamazoo Central High School

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Published June 7, 2010 at 1:41 p.m.

“… I’m here tonight because after three rounds of competition, with more than 1,000 schools, and more than 170,000 votes cast, I know – and America now knows – what you’ve done at Kalamazoo Central.  ... Together as a community, you’ve embraced the motto of this school district: “Every child, every opportunity, every time,” because you believe, like I do, that every child – regardless of what they look like, where they come from, or how much money their parents have –

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Al Franken Fighting For Homeowners' Advocate

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Published May 14, 2010 at 7:30 a.m.

Sen. Al Franken wants somebody to be looking out for homeowners as they navigate the Obama administration's Home Affordable Modification Program. The Minnesota Democrat has introduced an amendment to create an Office of the Homeowner Advocate within the Treasury department ... "The government created this HAMP program that people have accessed, and sometimes they end up talking to the servicer of their loan and sometimes the servicers make mistakes and don't really have their back," said Franken

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Barack Obama, Campaign Manager: How The 2008 Playbook Passed Health Care

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Published May 14, 2010 at 7:15 a.m.

Shortly before 11 a.m. on a Sunday in mid-December, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was driving through Washington D.C. when he received a nervous phone call from one of his trusted deputies, Sen. Chuck Schumer ... Schumer wanted to know if Reid had seen Sen. Joseph Lieberman's comments on "Face the Nation" that morning. "Lieberman seemed to draw a line in the sand," the New York Democrat relayed. "You should check in with him. He seemed to rule out supporting the bill if it has the Medicare

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President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, 5/13/2010

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Published May 13, 2010 at 5:20 p.m.

WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key administration posts: ... Thomas R. Acevedo, Member, National Advisory Council on Indian EducationDerek J. Bailey, Member, National Advisory Council on Indian EducationRobin A. Butterfield, Member, National Advisory Council on Indian EducationRobert B. Cook, Member, National Advisory Council on Indian EducationDeborah Jackson-Dennison, Member, National Advisory Council on Indian

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The Vice President from Brussels to Madrid

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Published May 11, 2010 at 2:55 p.m.

Click here to see the photo gallery ... [View Full Size] ... Last week, Vice President Biden traveled to Belgium and Spain. In a major address to the European Parliament, the Vice President talked about the relationship between the U.S. and Europe: ... What began as a simple pact among a half-a-dozen nations to create a common market for coal and steel grew into an economic and political powerhouse; a community dedicated to free thought, free movement, and free enterprise; a Europe that one

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Launching America’s New Approach to the Drug Problem

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Published May 11, 2010 at 5:15 a.m.
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Today marks an important milestone in our work to create a healthier and safer America.  The newly released 2010 National Drug Control Strategy serves as a blueprint for action to address drug use and its consequences.  Emphasizing collaboration and innovative strategies, it outlines five-year goals for reducing drug use and its consequences through a balanced policy of prevention, treatment, enforcement, and international cooperation ... The new Strategy, the inaugural drug control plan for

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“Education Means Emancipation”

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Published May 10, 2010 at 11:34 a.m.
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Click here to see the video ... On Sunday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at Hampton University.  The President reflected on Hampton’s history and the importance of education to Hampton’s first students – escaped slaves – and this year’s graduating class:   ... [W]e meet here today, as graduating classes have met for generations, not far from where it all began, near that old oak tree off Emancipation Drive.  I know my University 101.  There, beneath its

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Fox Defends Michael Brown Interview: He's An 'Expert On Botched Responses'

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Published May 7, 2010 at 6:50 p.m.

Fox News is defending itself from yet another wave of White House criticism, this time saying the decision to let former FEMA chief Michael Brown speak unchallenged about the Obama administration's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was justified because Brown is "an expert on botched responses." ... Fox News' Neil Cavuto, who conducted the interview with Brown on Monday -- in which the former FEMA chief insinuated that Obama welcomed the oil spill disaster because of the political

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Briefing by Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, and Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan And Pakistan, on Upcoming Visit of President Karzai

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Published May 7, 2010 at 4:02 p.m.

3:37 P.M. EDT ... MR. RHODES:  Thanks, everybody, for joining us on a Friday afternoon here.  We just wanted to take this opportunity to give you a bit of a preview of the visit next week of President Karzai and a delegation of Afghans to the United States.  I’m joined here by Doug Lute, who is the senior director on the National Security Council for Afghanistan and Pakistan.  ... We see this as an important visit, another opportunity to continue our consultations with President Karzai and

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