Obama Calls for Daily Economic Briefings

By: Michelle Levi
Topics: White House

(CBS)

At the start of his first daily briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that a new item has been added to the President's daily schedule: an economic daily briefing to be held in the Oval Office.

"The president asked that this be added every day to his schedule," Gibbs said. President Obama feels it is "important that each day he receive the most up to date information as it relates to the economy," he added.

Mr. Gibbs said that this briefing will be treated with the same "professionalism" as the daily intelligence briefing. These meetings will be led by NEC Director Larry Summers. Today's briefing was attended by President Obama, Vice President Biden, Chief of Staff Emanuel, budget director Peter Orzag, Director of Domestic Policy Council Melanie Barnes and economic advisor Jared Bernstein.

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by ghwab1949 January 22, 2009 9:16 PM EST: They are all politicians. All in it for personal gain. Almost not a one has had an honest paying job. Whatever happened to the ancient Greek model of democracy where people would leave private employment temporarily to serve. Instead, they all make it a career. They all, including both Bush and Obama, think they are better than us and all have large sums of money greater than those we all have, They all expect that politics will be their ticket to easy street. They are all crooks. Obama is no better than any of them. We should be suspicious of them all.; Reply to this comment


by liberalme January 22, 2009 7:10 PM EST: Exactly how will this make him a better president? He''''s off to a grand start getting his buddy and crook Geithner elected as Sec of Treas. Nice example both he and Obama establish: lie and be fraudulent, but it''''ll be OK since some types have a warped mentality that this type of criminality and fraud is acceptable so long as they apologize and pay up. This is what the Obama administration is all about - lies and fraud.

Posted by Credibility2

Well hey, if that were true--which it isn''t---we all should be used to lies, fraud,deception, murder, thievery and huge deficits from the past 8 years--huh?; Reply to this comment


by credibility2 January 22, 2009 6:03 PM EST: Exactly how will this make him a better president? He''s off to a grand start getting his buddy and crook Geithner elected as Sec of Treas. Nice example both he and Obama establish: lie and be fraudulent, but it''ll be OK since some types have a warped mentality that this type of criminality and fraud is acceptable so long as they apologize and pay up. This is what the Obama administration is all about - lies and fraud.; Reply to this comment