Obama's comments came shortly after he had returned to the White House from Capitol Hill, where he met with the House Democratic leadership.
When you visit the Capitol, you'll see the winning entry from Utah posted in the tunnel between the Capitol and the House office buildings.
Obama and Kenny headed to the Capitol to join House Speaker John Boehner for an annual luncheon including entertainment by Anthony Kearns of The Irish Tenors.
But at Thursday afternoon's Capitol meeting, House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich asserted that Gingrich would emerge as a stronger figure after overcoming the latest attempt to strip him of the speakership.
If that happened, Clinton would become the third former president to go from the White House to Capitol Hill.
On Capitol Hill, two House committees have begun work on their version of a bill to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Another part of that effort is the K Street Project, named for the Washington street where lobby firms tend to settle, between the Capitol and the White House.
Proud parents, their children in tow, visit the monuments, Arlington Cemetery, and other sights, but the highlight will always be the tour of the Capitol and the White House.
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Pennsylvania Avenue, the most celebrated mile of pavement in America, stretches northwest from the U.S. Capitol to the White House, along a path cleared through the Washington swamp two hundred years ago.
In a formal speech on Capitol Hill Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner sounded conciliatory even as he made it clear higher tax rates would be unacceptable to Republicans who control the House.
He has been an invited guest to the White House and Capitol Hill to advise on nanotechnology and emerging technologies, a lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and NYU, and a frequent guest on CNBC and CNN.
Lobbyists swarm Capitol Hill, the White House, and the multitudinous federal bureaucracies throughout Washington.
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And of course, there were conversations between the White House and the Capitol in resolving these issues.
But until recently, there were plenty of empty lots for new development north of Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Capitol.
David Petraeus visits Capitol Hill Wednesday as the House of Representatives votes on a measure that will directly affect his mission in Iraq.
But Republicans both in the White House and on Capitol Hill have made it clear that money will be contingent on structural reforms.
Thus the main focus in the White House and on Capitol Hill is on finding ways to encourage American firms to create more jobs.
In the early years it was more a cermonial escort of the president from the White House to the Capitol before the swearing-in ceremony.
In recent years, Center interns have been hired to work on Capitol Hill, the White House, the Foreign Service, Fortune 500 companies, and various intelligence agencies.
Informal negotiations began on Capitol Hill to reconcile the House and Senate versions of legislation that will bring in the most sweeping reforms to financial regulation since the 1930s.
Included in that area are the U.S. Capitol, all of the House and Senate office buildings, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and part of the National Mall.
For example, Ohio Republican Bob Ney, the so-called Representative Number One in the plea, is chairman of the House Administration Committee, sort of the mayor of the House side of Capitol Hill.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told an assembly of marchers, after they reached their rallying area midway between the White House and the Capitol, that Saturday's demonstration wasn't about the Second Amendment.
Before that, the new-born United States of America waited for ten years for the White House and the Capitol to be built, only to see both destoyed by the British in the war of 1812.
Even now, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's recent troubles may not dim their influence on Capitol Hill, says Mike House, director of FM Policy Focus, a lobbying group that's campaigned for years to regulate the GSEs more strictly.
The memorial foundation, which plans to build a statue and memorial to disabled veterans on Capitol Hill near the Rayburn House Office Building, stopped using Quadriga in 2008, five months before the settlement agreement was reached.
After the speech, he rode back to the Capitol and met privately with House Republicans to discuss one of the policies he had emphasized: a policy that would allow workers to convert overtime compensation into time off.
It rubs shoulders as an equal with the monuments to Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson, and competes with the White House, the Capitol and the Smithsonian Museum for the attention of tens of thousands of visitors every week.
Many of Howard's students have behind-the-scenes access to the political system with the privilege of regularly participating in internship programs at the White House, on Capitol Hill, and other federal government agencies, because of the school's location in the nation's capital.
In fact, he just returned from a meeting with the House Republican conference on Capitol Hill.
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