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Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/14/president-wall-street-we-want-our-money-back-and-were-going-get-it Home • The White House Blog The White House Blog The President to Wall Street: "We Want Our Money Back, and We're Going to Get It" Posted by Jesse Lee on January 14, 2010 at 03:59 PM EST Read the Transcript | Download Video: mp4 (137MB) | mp3 (6MB) Discussing Wall Street executives' reaction to his proposed new fees on major banks, the President delivered a simple message: "Instead of sending a phalanx of lobbyists to fight this proposal, or employing an army of lawyers and accountants to help evade the fee,...

How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in AfghanistanBy PETER BAKER Published: December 5, 2009 WASHINGTON — On the afternoon he held the eighth meeting of his Afghanistan review, President Obama arrived in the White House Situation Room ruminating about war. He had come from Arlington National Cemetery, where he had wandered among the chalky white tombstones of those who had fallen in the rugged mountains of Central Asia. How much their sacrifice weighed on him that Veterans Day last month, he did not say. But his advisers say he was haunted by the human toll as he wrestled with...

THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG THE BLOG TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM Facts Are Stubborn Things Posted by Macon Phillips Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things." Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions. In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to...

WASHINGTON, May 22 /Standard Newswire/ -- The following is an Immigration Fact Check: Responding to Key Myths released by the White House: 1. MYTH: Ending the current green card backlog would result in 900,000 new residents per year on top of current numbers. * FACT: The current proposal aims to end the green card backlog in eight years. However, this does not mean that 3.5 to 4 million people over the current number will be admitted into the country. The backlog will be cleared in two ways: * 240,000 green cards are being shifted from other priorities within the existing...