The Presidential Planner
EmailFrom Sunlen Miller
Late morning President Obama will sign the HIRE Act – one of the first pieces of the Democrats' "jobs agenda" – the $17.4 billion bill that includes payroll tax breaks for companies hiring people long out of work.
The bill passed yesterday in the Senate by a vote of 68-29.
The president will be joined by members of Congress, members of the President’s cabinet and economic team, small business owners and workers in the Rose Garden signing ceremony.
The president’s Press Secretary will also make good use of the Rose Garden today. Robert Gibbs will hold his daily press briefing from the sunny Rose Garden instead of the regular briefing room inside. With the weather turning nicer in Washington, DC, earlier in the week Gibbs joked that, ““like class, we should move this outside.’’
-Sunlen Miller
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From the AP, Joe Biden’s idiot move of the week:
—Vice President Joe Biden asked for God’s BLESSING FOR THE LATE MOTHER of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick’s Day — except the ELDERLY LADY IS VERY MUCH ALIVE.
“God rest her soul,” Biden said Wednesday night as he introduced Cowen and President Barack Obama. He quickly caught himself and noted that it’s Cowen’s father who is no longer living. Of the prime minister’s mother, Biden said, “God bless her soul.”
Biden then cited the Irish proverb that “a silent mouth is sweet to hear” and yielded the podium to the president.—
Posted by: Joe Biden, Real Man of Foreign Policy Genius | March 18, 2010, 8:36 am 8:36 am