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Scenes from the first Friday of the Obama administration
With their first week in power coming to a close in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama and his White House staff sat down and went straight to business. After the order to close the prison on Guantanamo Bay was signed yesterday, Obama went to work tackling the other looming problems in the United States.
Obama tried to encourage cooperation at a bipartisan meeting of congressional leaders at the White House to discuss the $825-billion stimulus plan. Attendees included, from left, Rep. James Clyburn, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Minority Leader John Boehner, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Across the table, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Vice President Joe Biden listened as President Obama spoke.
Pelosi left with a smile after a press conference as the stimulus package tries to make its way through Congress.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees at their headquarters. Clinton commented that U.S. foreign aid should be strengthened with more funding and better coordination with military assistance programs in war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
USAID’s Acting Administrator Kent Hill (center) and Vice President of the American Foreign Service Association Francisco Zamora listened to Clinton, who delivered her speech at the Ronald Reagan building.
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