The President signed into law:
S. 2968, the "Trademark Technical and Conforming Amendment Act of 2010", which amends trademark law to extend the grace period from 3 months to 6 months for international registrants filing "affidavits of use" to extend trademark registration and to allow international registrants. Source
The President and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the Taoiseach and Mrs. Cowen at the annual St. Patrick's Day Reception held in the East Room of the White House. The President and the Taoiseach delivered remarks and participate in a traditional Shamrock Ceremony. Transcript Video Prior to their arrival, the Keltic Dreams, an after school Irish dancing troupe from Public School 59 in the Bronx, and The City of Washington Pipe Band performed.
Day419/March18th/Thursday: The President, in the Rose Garden of the White House, signed into law:
H.R.2487, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (HIRE), a jobs bill that provides small businesses with incentives to spur hiring and help put Americans back to work. Saying that "while this jobs bill is absolutely necessary, it's by no means enough,"the President pledged that this was just one step amongst many. The HIRE Act would:
(1) Provide tax cuts for businesses that hire someone who has been out of work for at least 2 months
(2) Help businesses to invest in their future by permitting them to write off investments in equipment in 2010
(3) Encourage job creation by expanding investments in schools and clean energy projects
(4) Maintain investments in roads and bridges Transcript Video
The President declared a major disaster existed in the State of Arizona and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe winter storms and flooding during the period of January 18-22, 2010. Federal funding was made available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe winter storms and flooding in the counties of Apache, Coconino, Gila, Greenlee, La Paz, Mohave, Navajo, and Yavapai and the Gila River Indian Community, Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, San Carlos Apache, Tohono O'odham Nation, and White Mountain Apache Tribe. Federal funding was also made available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures for all counties and Tribes within the State. Source
United States Assistant Attorney General Ronald Welch informed in a letter to Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) that the U.S. Justice Department would seek to purchase a near empty Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill, "even if detainees were not being considered for transfer there." Source
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