This morning the President welcome leaders from Congress of both parties to the White House to discuss the economy, the Supreme Court, and the New START Treaty — but he promised beforehand that the central focus would

On her first official solo international visit, the First Lady is traveling to Mexico with a special focus on engaging

Click here to see the video. The First Lady’s visit to Mexico this week marks her first solo international official visit. Mrs. Obama is visiting Mexico to reaffirm America’s strong relationship with Mexico and the historic and close ties between its people. In addition to spending time with President Calderon and Mrs. Zavala at Los Pinos, the First Lady will visit a primary and secondary school, deliver remarks at a Mexico City university and meet with a group of young Mexican leaders. Mrs. Obama’s international platform will support the President’s global engagement efforts with an emphasis on engaging young people around the world. Trooper Sanders is Deputy Director of Policy to the First Lady

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As we continue to work toward reforming Wall Street and making it accountable, we’re going to see the usual suspects try to misrepresent the legislation.

One of the goals of President Obama’s Strategy for American Innovation is to harness science and technology to address the “grand challenges” of the 21st century in areas such as health, clean energy, national security, and education and life-long learning. Grand challenges are important national goals like putting a man on the Moon or sequencing the human genome that require advances in science and technology to achieve. They also have the potential to drive sustainable economic growth and the creation of quality jobs. Examples of specific goals that have been previously articulated by the President and others include early detection of dozens of diseases from a saliva sample, solar cells as cheap as paint, and educational software that is as compelling as the best video game and effective as a personal tutor. In February 2010, the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council

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Before a lunch meeting with foreign leaders and dignitaries, Vice President Biden delivered remarks about the significance of the Nuclear Security Summit and the “historic task of creating a better and a safer world for all our peoples.” He discussed the goal of reducing the number of nuclear weapons arsenals worldwide

Last week saw marked progress on one of the President’s key long-term foreign policy objectives to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to secure vulnerable nuclear materials.

Last week saw marked progress on one of the President’s key long-term foreign policy objectives to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to secure vulnerable nuclear materials.

In a terrible accident, President Lech Kaczynski of Poland was killed in a plane crash along with his wife, and an extraordinary and distinguished delegation of Polish civilian and military leaders. This morning, President Obama called Prime Minister Tusk of Poland to express his deepest condolences for the tragic loss suffered by the Polish people. President Obama expressed the full and strong support of the American people for our close friend and ally Poland, and he released the following statement . Today, I called Polish Prime Minister Tusk to express Michelle’s and my deepest condolences to the people of Poland on the tragic deaths this morning of President Lech Kaczynski, First Lady Maria Kaczynski, and all who were traveling with them to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.