The President signed into law:
H.R. 4387 , which designated the Federal building in Pensacola, Florida, as the Winston E. Arnow Federal BuildingH.R. 5651, which designated the Federal building and United States courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota, as the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building and United States CourthouseH.R. 5706, which designated the building occupied by the Government Printing Office in Pueblo, Colorado, as the Frank Evans Government Printing Office BuildingH.R. 5773, which designated the Federal building in Baltimore, Maryland, commonly known as the Social Security Administration Operations Building, as the Robert M. Ball Federal BuildingH.R. 5758, which designated the facility of the United States Postal Service in Fall River, Massachusetts, as the Sergeant Robert Barrett Post Office Building
H.R. 6162, the "Coin Modernization, Oversight, and Continuity Act of 2010," which required the Treasury Department to submit a biennial report to Congress: (1) analyzing possible new metallic materials or technologies for the production of circulating coins; and (2) making recommendations for any appropriate changes to the metallic content of circulating coinsH.R. 6166, the "American Eagle Palladium Bullion Coin Act of 2010 ," which authorized Treasury to produce palladium bullion coins for sale to investors if an independent marketing study demonstrated adequate demand to ensure that the coins could be minted and issued at no net cost to taxpayers
H.R. 6237 , which designated the facility of the United States Postal Service in Napa, California, as the Tom Kongsgaard Post Office BuildingH.R. 6387, which designated the facility of the United States Postal Service in Eureka, California, as the Sam Sacco Post Office BuildingS. 1338, which required that, if a foreign student is seeking a nonimmigrant visa to study in a language training program in the United States, the program must be accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the Department of Education.H.R. 5758, which designated the facility of the United States Postal Service in Fall River, Massachusetts, as the Sergeant Robert Barrett Post Office Building
H.R. 6162, the "Coin Modernization, Oversight, and Continuity Act of 2010," which required the Treasury Department to submit a biennial report to Congress: (1) analyzing possible new metallic materials or technologies for the production of circulating coins; and (2) making recommendations for any appropriate changes to the metallic content of circulating coins.H.R. 6166, the "American Eagle Palladium Bullion Coin Act of 2010," which authorized Treasury to produce palladium bullion coins for sale to investors if an independent marketing study demonstrated adequate demand to ensure that the coins could be minted and issued at no net cost to taxpayers.S. 1421, the "Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act," which prohibited the importation into the United States or interstate shipment of a species of Asian carp.S. 3250, the "Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act of 2010," which directed the General Services Administration to develop and implement a program to train and certify Federal building personnel Source
The President signed an Executive Order establishing the White House Council for Community Solutions. The Council was commissioned to provide advice to the President on the best ways to mobilize citizens, nonprofits, businesses and government to work more effectively together to solve specific community needs.
Day690/Dec15th/Wednesday: T he President made a statement from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the Middle Class Tax Cuts and Unemployment Insurance Agreement poised for a vote (and passed later in the day) in the United States Senate to the press. Transcript Video
The President held a working meeting with business leaders at the Blair House that lasted for more than four hours and included discussions on ideas for investment in innovation and entrepreneurship, reforming the education system in the United States and providing better training and preparation for workers, opening up global markets through trade and export promotion, taking a balanced approach to regulation that promoted, rather than undermined, economic growth and encouraging investment in the United States. The attendees were:
Greg Brown, Co-CEO, Motorola, Inc.
John Chambers, Chairman & CEO, Cisco Systems Inc.
Kenneth Chenault, CEO, American Express
Dave Cote, Chairman, President & CEO, Honeywell International Inc
Scott Davis, Chairman & CEO, UPS
John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Mark Gallogly, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Centerbridge Partners
Lew Hay, Chairman & CEO, NextEra Energy
Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman & CEO, General Electric
Ellen Kullman, CEO, DuPont
John Lechleiter, President and CEO, Eli Lilly
Andrew Liveris, President, CEO and Chairman, Dow Chemical
James McNerney, Chairman, President & CEO, Boeing
Indra Nooyi, Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo
Paul Otellini, CEO, Intel
Penny Pritzker, Chairman & CEO, Pritzker Realty Group
Brian Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast
Jim Rogers, Chairman, President & CEO, Duke Energy
Eric Schmidt, Chairman & CEO, Google
Robert Wolf, President & COO, UBS
The President met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office of the White House.
The President signed into law:
H.R. 6118 , which designated the facility of the United States Postal Service located in Washington, D.C., as the "Dorothy I. Height Post Office"
H.R. 4994, the "Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010," which delayed for one year a reduction in Medicare physician payments that would otherwise take effect on January 1, 2011; extended other expiring Medicare and Medicaid payment provisions; changed limits on the amount of excess health insurance tax credits that must be repaid to the Government; and made other Medicare and Medicaid clarifications and adjustments
S. 2847, the "Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation or the "CALM Act," which required the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a regulation limiting the volume of audio on commercials transmitted by television broadcast stations, cable operators, and other multichannel video programming distributors. Source
The President sent this nomination to the United States Senate:
Clyde E. Terry , of New Hampshire, to be a Member of the National Council on Disability for a term expiring September 17, 2013 Bio Source
The President issued a letter to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate r egarding the Consolidated War Powers Report as part of his efforts to keep the Congress informed about deployments of U.S. Armed Forces equipped for combat. List of subjects detailed:
MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST AL-QA'IDA, THE TALIBAN, AND ASSOCIATED FORCES AND IN SUPPORT OF RELATED U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM OBJECTIVES
MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ
MARITIME INTERCEPTION OPERATIONS
U.S./NATO OPERATIONS IN KOSOVO
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