Press Briefing

Sep 21, 2010

The Pentagon Is Serious About Saving Money - Last year we awarded $55 billion in 'competitive' contracts for which only one bid was received
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703904304575497754176193396.html

Cap Gains Taxation: Less Means More - A new study suggests a zero cap gains rate could create millions of jobs at a fraction of the cost of the spending stimulus
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703556604575501892210065882.html

Fighting Fraud and the Consequences of Defunding the Affordable Care Act
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/09/20/fighting-fraud-and-consequences-defunding-affordable-care-act

A Tale of Two Recoveries - The state of the economy after a year of 'rebound'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575504053230524906.html

President Obama's Town Hall on the Economy, Business and the Middle Class
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/09/20/president-obamas-town-hall-economy-business-and-middle-class

The Recession and the Housing Drag - The more the government tries to prevent prices from finding an equilibrium, the longer it will take for the economy to begin growing again
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575503752698078816.html

Public-Private Partnership Brings Clean Drinking Water to Flood Victims
http://blogs.state.gov/ap/index.php/site/entry/partnership_clean_water_pakistan

Republicans should be grateful tea partiers did not run as third-party candidates and split the antistatist vote
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575503921088554324.html

Under Secretary Levey Remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg862.htm

Don’t Wish Upon an Energy Star to Save the Environment
http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/09/20/don%e2%80%99t-wish-upon-an-energy-star-to-save-the-environment/

U.S.-Colombia Action Plan on Racial and Ethnic Equality
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/scp/fs/2010/147375.htm

Conservatives: The Economic Toll of the Federal President's Tax Hikes
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/20/morning-bell-the-economic-toll-of-the-obama-tax-hikes