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.
In February, the leak of a White House bill including provisions that would be anathema to Republicans threatened to upset the pro-reform coalition.
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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At the White House, Bill Clinton was presented with a list of 10 names.
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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True, he has some rhetorical form as an anti-business figure unlike the previous Democrat in the White House, Bill Clinton, who could comfortably talk the talk of business.
In May it wooed Bill White away from Credit Suisse (nyse: CSR - news - people ) to be its global head of capital markets.
Just as George W. Bush knocked off formidable Democrats such as Anne Richards and sitting Vice-President Al Gore, Perry defeated two Texas icons, Houston Mayor Bill White and Sen.
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.
On May 19th, while President Obama is hosting G-8 leaders at Camp David, First Lady Michelle Obama will invite their spouses to the White House for a tour guided by White House Curator Bill Allman and an intimate lunch.
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.
The White House says this bill is just last year's unfinished business -- and next time, it will be different.
The White House said this bill is just last year's unfinished business -- and next time, it will be different.
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Earlier on Monday, deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton confirmed there would be a new interrogation team for key terror suspects.
Dismayed by his obstinance, a group of friends secretly enlisted an artist, Simmie Knox, who had done the official White House portraits of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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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.
As to the House-approved spending cuts bill, White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage dismissed the GOP alternative as "nothing more than a dangerous diversion" for eliminating federal funding by negatively impacting millions of seniors, disabled individuals and poor and at-risk children.
"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.
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