BRIEFING ROOM

The White House provides timely and accurate information about the President's latest events and public statements.  Here you'll find photos, video, and blogs, as well as proclamations, executive orders, and press releases.

WED, FEBRUARY 11, 3:04 PM EST

Progress

The Senate-House conference committee has reconciled the chambers' different versions of the stimulus bill.
WED, FEBRUARY 11, 12:07 PM EST

With the stroke of a pen

On a visit to an infrastructure project in Virginia, the President announced that the Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar told him that if the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passes, his company would be able to rehire some of the 20,000 employees it has laid off in the last few weeks.
TUE, FEBRUARY 10, 9:25 PM EST

Do the right thing

"No matter what you do, you can't pass a law that makes somebody do the right thing, right?" That was Mrs. Obama's message to a group of young people she met with on a visit to the Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that provides a range of social services.