Despite the overwhelming vote in favor of the bill in both the House and the Senate, none of the top GOP Hill leaders attended the White House bill signing ceremony on Wednesday.
Johnson was the governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 and succeeded by Bill Richardson, a man once believed to take over the White House after Bill Clinton.
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"We are not having any discussions like that, " White House spokesman Bill Burton told CNN.
The mayor of Houston, Bill White, is considered a strong Democratic candidate for governor in 2010.
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White House spokesman Bill Burton minimized the contretemps, saying people are entitled to disagree in a democracy.
Returning Valero staff would be violating direct evacuation orders from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Houston Mayor Bill White.
Houston Mayor Bill White said it was essential to get the jam cleared before heavy rains and wind begin Friday afternoon.
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In May it wooed Bill White away from Credit Suisse (nyse: CSR - news - people ) to be its global head of capital markets.
The Greater Houston Partnership, an alliance of hard-nosed businessmen that looms large locally, has worked well with Bill White, Houston's business-minded but green mayor, to support his clean-up of the city's air and water.
Emanuel, who served in the White House when Bill Clinton was president and is a member of the Illinois congressional delegation, tells NPR's Robert Siegel that he wanted to stand in alliance with Obama at Wednesday's Washington conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Priorities USA is headed by two former White House aides, Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney.
The committee approved its own legislation, a bill the White House strongly opposes.
During her stint in the Bill Clinton White House, she was described as "brilliant" but also "authoritarian" and "brash".
Simpson and Erskine Bowles, a former White House aide to Bill Clinton.
Earlier on Monday, deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton confirmed there would be a new interrogation team for key terror suspects.
And in just a few minutes, you're going to hear a little bit more about the whole process of state visits and dinners from White House Historian, Bill Allman.
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Last year, Republicans defeated a White House-backed bill that would have established voluntary cybersecurity standards for companies running critical infrastructure such as the electrical grid, citing concerns about a government role in cybersecurity.
"Democrats agree that there should be permanent extension to the middle-class tax cuts, that there shouldn't be a permanent extension of tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, " said White House press secretary Bill Burton.
"When John Boehner comes to the table and he can't even bring his deputy or his third in command to vote for the deal that he is agreeing to, I think you've got a real crisis of leadership in the House, " former White House press secretary Bill Burton said.
The broad outlines of this bill are already known: the government published a White Paper just before Christmas, and a draft bill will be published shortly to allow time for public comment.
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Is the White House comfortable signing a bill at this juncture that could potentially affect how we detect tsunami warnings?
But this was dropped from the bill because the White House preferred to repeal the estate tax and could not afford both.
Earlier this month Senator Evan Bayh (D--Ind.) expressed serious reservations about the White House's appropriations bill for the remainder of this fiscal year.
President Barack Obama would now sign the bill, said White House press secretary Jay Carney, even though it fell short of broader action needed to address sequestration.
He had just flown in from Washington DC talking about SOPA to a variety of government employees after spending time last week talking to White House employees about the bill.
The U.S. Court of Appeals announced Tuesday Lancaster will begin investigating whether Herman took a cash bribe or solicited illegal campaign donations while she was a White House aide to President Bill Clinton.
The White House confirms that President Bill Clinton will send a letter to the Federal Election Commission petitioning the agency to outlaw the large contributions from wealthy donors, corporations and labor unions known as soft money.
Others in attendance at the briefing included National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, and John Holdren, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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