En Route New London, Connecticut—(ENEWSPF)—May 18, 2011 – 9:39 A.M. EDT       MR. CARNEY:  Okay, before I take your questions, just wanted to let you know that on Friday President Obama will visit CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to meet with a broad range of the intelligence community, to thank them[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 18, 2011.   It is disappointing that at a time when oil companies are posting near record profits, Republican Leadership in the Senate led an effort to protect billions of dollars in tax breaks for the oil and gas industry that even oil and gas CEO’s in the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2011 – 1:22 P.M. EDT      MR. CARNEY:  All right.  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  I don’t have any announcements, so we’ll go straight to questions.      Jim.      Q    Thank you, Jay.  As the President prepares for this speech on the Middle East this week, the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2011 –  2:55 P.M. EDT      THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody.  (Applause.)  Good afternoon.  Welcome to the White House.       I’m going to be very brief, but I do want to start by recognizing a few people.  First of all, a great friend of mine, one of the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2011.   Index for Today’s Briefing DEPARTMENT Opening of Global Diaspora Forum Deputy Assistant Secretary Joseph Yun’s Upcoming travel to Burma Ambassador Grossman’s travel to Astana, Bishkek, Tashkent, Dushanbe, Islamabad, and Kabul BURMA Flawed electoral process, results not deemed free, fair or sound Two-track approach to Burma[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2011.  Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti beneficiaries. This extension will be effective July 23, 2011 and is for an additional 18 months. It will allow these TPS beneficiaries to remain in the United States through Jan.[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2011.  Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Tuesday introduced anticipated legislation to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), one of the nation’s premier digital privacy laws.  Leahy was the lead author of the 1986 law, which was enacted to protect the privacy of Americans’ electronic communications. The Electronic Communications[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2011 – 12:17 P.M. EDT      PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Well, it is a great pleasure to welcome once again my good friend King Abdullah to the White House.  The United States and Jordan have had a longstanding friendship, an extraordinary relationship of cooperation on a wide range of[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 May 2011.  The United Nations atomic agency announced today that it will send a team of international experts on a fact-finding mission to Japan to assess nuclear safety in the wake of the damage caused by March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. The mission – which will visit Japan from[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–16 May 2011.  Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) today asked the court’s judges to issue arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi, one of his sons and the head of the country’s intelligence forces, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity during the ongoing conflict in the[Read More…]