Topic: Jay Carney
Quotes
There's no such thing as a presidential vacation -- the presidency travels with you
Romney: Obama vacation during crisis is wrong Aug 18, 2011
Our focus from the beginning was to have the president have the opportunity to speak to the American people and to Congress, in front of Congress, at the soonest possible date upon Congress' return from its long recess
Obama, Boehner OK speech schedule Sep 01, 2011
We certainly think ... that we expect the members of Congress -- House and Senate -- heard in their districts and states the same kinds of things from their constituents that the president heard when he visited the Midwest on his bus tour and previous trip as well, that there is a level of frustration with Washington that is palpable
Boehner, Cantor ask Obama for meeting Sep 06, 2011
The federal government pays small businesses nearly $100 billion each year for goods and services
Obama touts jobs plan in N.C. Sep 14, 2011
I think there's always an element of politics in these things
Solyndra critique a matter of politics? Sep 16, 2011
James "Jay" Carney (born May 22, 1965) is an American journalist and President Barack Obama's second White House Press Secretary. Prior to his appointment as Press Secretary, replacing Robert Gibbs, he was director of communications to Vice President of the United States Joe Biden. Carney previously served as Washington Bureau Chief for Time magazine, a post he held from September 2005 until December 2008, and as a regular contributor in the "roundtable" segment of ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Carney was raised in Northern Virginia, attended high school at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, and earned a B.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University in 1987. He and his wife Claire Shipman (a senior correspondent for ABC News) live in Washington, D.C., with their son and daughter.
After being hired as a reporter for The Miami Herald in 1987, Carney joined Time magazine as its Miami Bureau Chief in 1989. Carney worked as a correspondent in Time's Moscow Bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the U.S.S.R.. He came to Washington in 1993 to report on the Bill Clinton White House.
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