The President has also noted frequently that the sequester is something that was voted into law by Republicans and Democrats, and it was voted into law as an action-forcing mechanism to convince Congress to finally take important steps to reduce our deficit over the long term.
Early last year another group of U.S. businesses, known as the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, also rallied around the creation of a market-based mechanism for lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
In an unfortunate twist of fate, however, the reference model wasn't able to charge -- despite an adapter cable being flown in especially from Europe -- so we were unable to see that docking mechanism (or that Haswell chip) in action.