BRIEFING ROOM

Growing up

This afternoon, the First Lady delivered remarks at Howard University on the topic of "Home, Work, Community: the Roles of African American Women as Change Agents."

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Progress

The Senate-House conference committee has reconciled the chambers' different versions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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With the stroke of a pen (update: photo)

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.