By Hunter Walker 5/16/12 12:08pm

Let Them Eat Subs

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President Obama’s Strategy For His Meeting With Congressional Leadership: Sandwiches

Today, President Barack Obama is pushing his economic “To Do List”for Congress. President Obama will be meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell later today to encourage them to act on the proposals in his list. He started the morning at a Washington D.C. deli, Taylor Gourmet, where he had a roundtable discussion with the deli’s owners and other small business people that he claims would benefit from the new hire tax credit that is one of the five items on his list. While appearing at the deli, President Obama was asked by reporters about his plans for his meeting with the Congressional leadership.

“I’m going to offer them some hoagies,” he said. Read More

By Hunter Walker 5/08/12 2:42pm

Field Trips

President Barack Obama (Photo: Getty)

President Obama Unveils His ‘To Do List’ in Albany

Appearing at University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering today, President Barack Obama unveiled his “To Do List” for Congress to help spur economic recovery.

“Today, I’m announcing a handy little to do list that we put together for Congress,” he said. “It’s about the size of a Post-It-Note, so every member of Congress should have time to read it. … Hopefully we’ll be checking off the list just like when Michelle gives me a list, I check it off.” Read More