Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2015. Here at the White House, we’re dedicated to making President Obama’s administration the most open and accessible in history. That’s why, for the second year in a row, we thought it’d be a gouda idea to brie-unite a certain cast of characters to help us bring back a tradition that dates back to the days of President Andrew Jackson.
On February 22, 1837, President Jackson had a 1,400-pound block of cheese hauled into the main foyer of the White House for an open house with thousands of citizens and his staff, where they discussed the issues of the day while carving off slabs of cheddar.
This year, we aim to do even feta. On Wednesday, January 21, in fromage to President Jackson (and to President Bartlet, if you’re a fan of The West Wing), we’re hosting the second-annual virtual Big Block of Cheese Day, where members of the Obama administration will take to social media to answer your questions about the President’s State of the Union address and the issues that are most important to you.
Log on to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr, and ask away using the hashtag #AskTheWH. We’ll do our best to answer as many questions as we can.
So be sure to visit WhiteHouse.gov/SOTU to watch the State of the Union address on January 20, 2015 at 9 p.m. ET and check out the schedule of all the ways you can engage on the following day, January 21. We camembert to think you’d miss it.
All day:
Share your questions on Tumblr now using the ask box
Post your questions in the comments on Facebook with #AskTheWH
Post a photo or video with your question on Instagram with #AskTheWH
From the road with President Obama:
Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer – @Pfeiffer44
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest – @PressSec
Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett – @VJ44
Communications Director Jen Palmieri – @JPalm44
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. ET: General Overview and State of the Union Themes
Director of the Office of Public Engagement Paulette Aniskoff – @PAniskoff44
Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary – @Schultz44
Associate Communications Director Stephanie Young – @Stephanie44
Deputy Communications Director Amy Brundage – @Brundage44
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET: Education
Dr. Jill Biden – @DrBiden
Executive Director of Reach Higher Eric Waldo – @ReachHigher
Department of Education – @USEdGov
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET: Immigration and Latino Issues
Director of the Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz – @Cecilia44
Director of Hispanic Media Katherine Vargas – @Vargas44
Deputy Director of Hispanic Media Antoinette Rangel – @LaCasaBlanca
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET: Climate, Energy and Conservation
Special Assistant to the President for Energy & Climate Change – @Utech44
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell – @SecretaryJewell
Department of Interior – @Interior
Environmental Protection Agency – @EPA
- 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET: Economic opportunity, infrastructure, minimum wage, and women’s economic agenda
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers Betsey Stevenson – @CEABetsey
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget – @DeeseOMB
Secretary of Labor Tom Perez – @LaborSec
Department of Labor – @USDOL
Department of Transportation – @USDOT
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Director of the Office of Science & Technology Policy Dr. John Holdren – @WhiteHouseOSTP
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith – @USCTO
OSTP Assistant Director for Strategic Communications and Senior Policy Analyst Kristin Lee – @Lee44
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Foreign Policy
Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes – @Rhodes44
National Security Council – @NSCPress
Department of State – @StateDept
- 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Health Care
Assistant Press Secretary Jessica Santillo – @Santillo44
Department of Health and Human Services – @HHSGov
White House Blog post by: Alex Wall
Source: whitehouse.gov
