Day671/Nov26th/Friday: The President was injured during a basketball game in which an errant elbow split his bottom lip. "After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the President received 12 stitches today administered by the White House Medical Unit. They were done in the doctor's office located on the ground floor of the White House," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced.
T he White House release d visitor records that were generated in August 2010 , includ ing several visitor records generated prior to September 16, 2009 that were requested by members of the public during October 2010 pursuant to the White House voluntary disclosure policy. This release br ought the grand total of released records by th e Obama White House to over 900,000 records that can be view ed at its Disclosures section.
The week's West Wing Week was released.
Day672/Nov27th/Saturday: Nothing to report. Perhaps the President spent the day nursing those lip stitches.
Day673/Nov28th/Sunday: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement in anticipation of the eminent release by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks of "several hundred thousand" U.S. State Department memos cables, asserting, " President Obama supports responsible, accountable, and open government at home and around the world, but this reckless and dangerous action runs counter to that goal. By releasing stolen and classified documents, Wikileaks has put at risk not only the cause of human rights but also the lives and work of these individuals. We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information." Source
Day674/Nov29th/Monday: The President, from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, proposed a two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal workers, claiming the freeze would save $2 billion over the rest of the current fiscal year and $28 billion in cumulative savings over the next five years. The freeze was applicable to all civilian federal employees, including those in various alternative pay plans and those working at the Department of Defense --" but not military personnel. Transcript Fact-sheet Video
Day675/Nov30th/Tuesday: The President met with bipartisan U.S.Congressional leadership in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. After the meeting, the President delivered a statement from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Room 430. Transcript Video
The President met with Nobel Laureates in the Oval Office of the White House.
The President and Vice President Joe Biden met with United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the Oval Office.
The President signed into law:
H.R. 5712 , "The Physician Payment and Therapy Relief Act of 2010," which provided for a Medicare physician payment rate update through December 31, 2010
S. 1376, the "International Adoption Simplification Act," which (1) made the siblings of children adopted by U.S. citizens from countries that are party to the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) eligible for admission into the United States, provided that they are under the age of 18; and (2) exempted children adopted by U.S. citizens from Hague Convention countries who are 10 years of age or younger from requirements to present vaccination documentation prior to admission into the United States, provided that the adoptive parent ensured that the child would receive the required vaccinations within 30 days of the child's admission
S. 3567, which designated the facility of the United States Postal Service located in Lynbrook, New York, as the Navy Corpsman Jeffrey L. Wiener Post Office Building
S.J.Res. 40, which provided that the first regular session of the 112th Congress will begin at noon on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Source
The President sent a letter to the United States Congress, declaring, " Under the authority of section 5304a of title 5, United States Code, I have determined that the current locality pay percentages in Schedule 9 of Executive Order 13525 of December 23, 2009, shall not increase from their 2010 levels. Pursuant to the Non Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009 (sections 1911 1919, Public Law 111 84), I am also establishing applicable 2011 locality pay rates for Alaska and Hawaii that are based on 2010 locality pay levels ." Source
Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. House Representative Darrell Issa met to discuss Recovery Act oversight and opportunities to apply some of the lessons learned to other federal programs. They identified some areas of agreement, including the need to enforce full compliance with reporting by recipients of Recovery Act funds, and to have follow-up conversations about other areas where they can work together. Source
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia Judge Norman K. Moon dismissed a lawsuit brought by Liberty University that challenged the constitutionality of the health reform law. The judge upheld the law and said that the requirement that individuals maintain health insurance was constitutional. Source
[Author's note: all days in these chronicles are full days. The Obama Inauguration on January 20, 2009 was a half-day, so not counted.]
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