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Jay Carney led the daily White House briefing. Questions were focused on the House rejection of the Senate-passed bill to extend the Social Security payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefit…

Questions to Jay Carney at the daily White House briefing focused on the House vote to reject the Senate’s legislation on extending the Social Security payroll tax cuts and unemployment bene…

Jay Carney led the daily White House briefing. In his comments Mr. Carney said the White House remains hopeful the House will pass to pass the Social Security payroll tax cut legislation, al…

Jay Carney gave the daily White House briefing. He refused to say whether or not the president would veto a payroll tax cut bill if it contained a provision on the proposed Keystone XL oil p…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions on a number of issues including congressional negotiations over spending plans and a payroll tax holiday extension.

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions. Among his statements Mr. Carney said that Congress had “ample time” to extend the Social Security payroll tax cuts and unemployment benef…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions. He said the Obama administration is “open to looking at other ways” of paying for the extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut as…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions on a number of issues including President Obama’s call for a payroll tax cut extension.

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions on the U.S. unemployment rate and proposals to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut.

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions. He was joined by Alan Krueger, who talked about the extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut. This is a portion of the complete b…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions. He urged Congress to act amid reports that a “supercommittee” could not agree on how to cut $1.2 trillion from the deficit. He criticized…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions on a number of issues. In the briefing he said that the European debt crisis was a high priority and he anticipated that it would be the f…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions on a number of topics including the European debt deal, President Obama’s jobs plan, the use of executive actions, deficit reduction negot…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions on a number of issues including the president’s jobs proposals former Chief of Staff Bill Daley’s comments in Politico, referencing the fi…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions. He said that the economic growth rate was not “good enough” to lower unemployment and urged Congress to act on the president’s jobs plan.…

National security advisers spoke to reporters about President Obama’s announcement that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011. Deputy Adviser Denis McDonough said th…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions. The briefing focused on the death of Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi and the presidents jobs plan. The program ended abruptly.

Jay Carney gave the daily White House briefing. Questions focused on an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. and President Obama’s jobs plans, which failed to…

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions on a number of issues including the economy, the president’s jobs plan, and unemployment statistics.

Jay Carney briefed reporters and answered questions about a number of issues including the economy and international trade. He said that legislation in Congress that punished countries for m…