The shooting death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton came up in a U.S. Senate hearing and a White House press briefing Wednesday.
White House press briefing, Press Secretary Jay Carney responded to a question regarding the administrations cooperation with congress, in providing information on the attack in Benghazi.
Gibbs' first White House press briefing covered a broad range of issues, ranging from serious questions on the economic bailout, Iraq, and the future of Guantanamo Bay detainees, to lighter topics such as the first family's transition to the presidential residence.
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At a White House press briefing for farm editors on Monday, Mr. Bush evinced apparent regret when he observed that a U.S. statute designed to protect the taxpayer from bad loans to foreign governments would inhibit him from extending further credit to the USSR.
In a press briefing, White House deputy spokesman Josh Earnest not only refused to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
At the White House briefing on Monday, press secretary Scott McClellan reiterated President Bush's support for Rumsfeld, and mentioned The Wall Street Journal article as evidence that retired generals stand behind the defense secretary.
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In his briefing today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney talked about Caitlin Halligan, who was nominated by President Obama to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
President Obama "wants to ensure that any legislation that passes is consistent with trade agreements and doesn't signal a change in our overall stance on trade, " White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a briefing Wednesday.
During an early afternoon briefing with reporters, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made unusually strong comments suggesting the general's job was hanging by a thread.
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White House press secretary Ari Fleischer acknowledged in his afternoon briefing that Bush was speaking of a simple majority vote in the Senate, should the bill be brought up for a vote.
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, the President announced that Vice President Joe Biden will lead a new initiative that has been tasked with identifying concrete proposals for real reform by January.
"The president will meet with families of those that lost a loved one last week, as well as speak to the larger memorial that will take place at the base, " White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in his daily briefing Monday.
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The issue quickly entered the national discussion over gun control, with White House spokesman Jay Carney referring to it in his daily press briefing and the issue coming up Wednesday in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence.
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Last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney commented on the video in a press briefing.
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Before the sequester even took place, the so-called Department of Homeland Security released 2, 000 illegal immigrants in its custody, more than 10 times the number Press Secretary Jay Carney originally admitted in a White House briefing.
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