Happy 98th Birthday to the National Park Service
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service to protect and preserve our natural lands so people all over the world could experience America's historic beauty and heritage for years to come. Today, the National Park Service manages 401 national parks and memorials, which supported 238,000 jobs and pumped more than $26 billion into local economies last year.
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Weekly Address: The Export-Import Bank
In this week's address, the President highlighted the progress made toward rebuilding our economy, including the creation of nearly 10 million new private-sector jobs in the past 53 months and the rise in the number of American exports to an all-time high. That growth is in part thanks to the actions of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, an organization that creates American jobs by helping to take American businesses global.
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Attorney General Holder Meets with the People of Ferguson
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to review the Justice Department's independent investigation into the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. While there, the Attorney General met with community leaders, FBI investigators, and federal prosecutors to get detailed briefings on the status of the case.
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