Crystal Lake, Illinois…Thank you, Edith. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.) Please. Please, be seated. Mr. President — what he hadn’t told you today: He had to delay his vacation to be here today. (Laughter.) He heard Biden is coming. He goes, “Oh, my God, when is he coming?” (Laughter.) But — (laughs) — […]
Washington, DC…Not even during the Civil War did insurrectionists breach our Capitol, the citadel of our democracy. But six months ago today, insurrectionists did. They launched a violent and deadly assault on the people’s house, on the people’s representatives, and on the Capitol police sworn to protect them, as our duly elected Congress carried out […]
Oakland, CA… Highlights 10 new dashboards to help increase the accessibility of state criminal justice data. California Attorney General Rob Bonta on July 1st, 2021 released four annual reports — as well as 10 new data dashboards — that provide the public with statewide data on criminal justice statistics in California. The reports, as well […]
San Francisco, CA… Other COVID-19 Emergency Customer Protections Have Ended, With Changes to be Rolled Out in Phases. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that it will extend the moratorium on utility service disconnections through September 30, 2021. The moratorium was put in place in March 2020 by the California Public Utilities Commission […]
Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation declaring July 4, 2021, as Independence Day in the State of California. PROCLAMATION Each year we celebrate the Fourth of July as the birth of America, commemorating the day our founders stood up to tyranny and formed a new nation founded on the principles of equality, freedom and […]
Washington, DC…Today — today we celebrate America — (applause) — our freedom, our liberty, our independence. The Fourth of July is a sacred day in our country — a day of history, of hope, remembrance and resolve, of promise and possibilities. Before me stands monuments of the greatest and the goodness of our nation — […]
Philadelphia, PA…When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to […]
Fort Meade, MD…The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a Cybersecurity Advisory today exposing malicious cyber activities by Russian military intelligence against U.S. and global organizations, starting from mid-2019 and likely ongoing. This advisory is being released as part […]
Washington, DC…Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 850,000 in June, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 5.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, public and private education, professional and business services, retail trade, and other services. This news release presents statistics from […]
Washington, DC…In these cases, we are called upon for the first time to apply §2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to regulations that govern how ballots are collected and counted. Arizona law generally makes it very easy to vote. All voters may vote by mail or in person for nearly a month before […]