Day: April 29, 2010

Nuclear Forum at UN Offers Iran Chance to Reassure World

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–29 April 2010 – Iran can use next week’s global gathering on disarmament at United Nations Headquarters to reassure other States of its peaceful nuclear intentions, the forum’s chair said today as he urged countries to exchange ideas on how to cut the world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. Ambassador[Read More…]

Statement by President Obama on Senate Proposal Outlined Today to Fix Our Nation’s Broken Immigration System

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010. “It is the federal government’s responsibility to enforce the law and secure our borders, as well as to set clear rules and priorities for future immigration. The continued failure of the federal government to fix the broken immigration system will leave the door open to a[Read More…]

White House Press Briefing on the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Coast, April 29, 2010

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010 PRESS BRIEFING BY: WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS, SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY JANET NAPOLITANO, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR DAVID HAYES, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR LISA JACKSON, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGECAROL BROWNER, REAR ADMIRAL OF[Read More…]

Presidential Proclamation–National Charter Schools Week, 2010

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010. Our Nation’s future depends on the education we provide to our sons and daughters, and charter schools across America serve as laboratories for education. Ideas developed and tested by charter schools have unlocked potential in students of every background and are driving reform throughout many school[Read More…]

US State Department Announces $10.5 Million Contribution to Address Migration-Related Challenges in Aftermath of Haiti Earthquake

Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2010. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Eric P. Schwartz announced in the Dominican Republic yesterday that the Department of State will make additional planned contributions totaling $10.5 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)[Read More…]

State Department Briefing by Phillip J. Crowley, April 29, 2010

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010. INDEX: DEPARTMENT Secretary Clinton’s bilateral meeting with FM Sikorski of Poland Secretary Clinton addresses the American Jewish Committee this evening Secretary Clinton’s conversation with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo Assistant Secretary Blake in Bhutan U.S team in Moscow to discuss adoption concerns National day of mourning[Read More…]

Remarks by President Obama in the Rose Garden, April 29, 2010

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010 – 1:54 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Hello, everybody.  Please have a seat.  Welcome to the White House.  Welcome to the Rose Garden.  This is an extraordinary occasion, a beautiful day — appropriately so.  So I hate to intrude on it, but before we[Read More…]

MALDEF, ACLU And NILC Announce Future Legal Challenge To Arizona Racial Profiling Law

PHOENIX–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010.  Today, MALDEF, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Arizona and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) held a news conference on the House of Representatives Lawn of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix, Arizona to announce their future legal challenge to Governor Jan Brewer’s recently[Read More…]

Leading Military Law Expert Sides with Senate Committee on Fort Hood Inquiry Efforts

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2010. A leading, impartial expert on military justice has told Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., that the Committee’s efforts to obtain documents and witnesses on the Fort Hood massacre will pose no problems for the prosecution of[Read More…]

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Kerry Opening Statement At Hearing On The New START Treaty

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2010. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today released the following statement at a hearing titled, “The Historical and Modern Context for U.S.- Russian Arms Control”: The full text of his statement as prepared is below: Thank you all for coming.  This afternoon, we begin[Read More…]

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