Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 27, 2012. Index for Today’s Briefing ISRAEL/PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Molho Visit / Bid for UN Non-Member Observer Status / U.S., Allies’ Positions / Parties Should Be Focused on Getting Back to the Table EGYPT Situation Unclear / Want to See a Solution to the Constitutional Impasse IMF / Want[Read More…]
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Kim Jong Un ‘Sexiest Man Alive?’ Chinese News Falls for Onion’s Parody
(ENEWSPF)- The Korea Times in English and the People’s Daily in China have fallen for satire from The Onion in an article declaring North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un the Sexiest Man Alive for 2012. No kidding. They bit into The Onion, and we’re crying from laughing. From Global Post:[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Salazar Finalizes Reforms to Streamline Leasing, Spur Economic Development on 56 Million Acres of American Indian Trust Land
Rule removes roadblocks to residential, commercial, renewable energy development; restores greater leasing control to tribal governments WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 27, 2012. As part of President Obama’s commitment to empower tribal nations and strengthen their economies, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn today announced[Read More…]
Committee for Economic Development Partners with the Campaign to Fix the Debt
Partnership fortifies business community’s call on the President and Congress to reach a deal to address the U.S. fiscal cliff before 2013 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 27, 2012. The Committee for Economic Development (CED), a nonpartisan public policy organization of today’s top business executives and university leaders, today announced its partnership with the[Read More…]
Brief: Texas Voter Registration Drive Restrictions Violate First Amendment, Federal Law
Brennan Center, League of Women Voters, and Rock the Vote File Amicus Brief in Texas Case NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 27, 2012. Recent changes to Texas law make it extremely difficult for voter registration groups to sign up new voters, violating the First Amendment and the National Voter Registration Act, argues the[Read More…]
U.S. House Prices Rose 1.1 Percent in Third Quarter 2012
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 27, 2012. U.S. house prices rose 1.1 percent from the second quarter to the third quarter of 2012 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price index (HPI). The HPI is calculated using home sales price information from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac[Read More…]
Syria: Evidence Shows Cluster Bombs Killed Children
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 27, 2012. Compelling evidence has emerged that an airstrike using cluster bombs on the town of Deir al-`Assafeer near Damascus killed at least 11 children and wounded others on November 25, 2012. The Syrian government should immediately cease its use of this highly dangerous weapon, which has been[Read More…]
Working Family Advocates From 33 States Travel to Washington D.C. to Tell Congress: No Benefit Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
New AFL-CIO report shows millions of Americans harmed by any effort to cut Social Security www.aflcio.org/StateFactSheets Washington DC,–(ENEWSPF)–November 27– Local AFL-CIO leaders from across the country and other working family advocates from 33 states are in Washington on November 27 and 28 to ask members of Congress to let Bush[Read More…]
FACT SHEET: The White House Homeland Security Partnership Council
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 27, 2012. “Just as no nation can wall itself off from the world, no one nation—no matter how large, no matter how powerful—can meet these challenges alone. Nor can governments alone. Today’s threats demand new partnerships across sectors and across societies—creative collaborations to achieve what no one can[Read More…]
White House Press Briefing by Jay Carney, November 26, 2012
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 26, 2012 – 2:29 P.M. EST MR. CARNEY: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your patience. We decided that it would be beneficial to you to have Alan Krueger, the Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, to join[Read More…]
