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Environmental protestors carry a 50-foot banner reading 'OBAMA:THIS IS YOUR CRUDE AWAKENING' on May 11, 2010 outside the White House in Washington, DC. Protestors waved signs denouncing off-shore drilling as the US Congress opened its first hearing into the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/10/take-a-look-our-action-plan-solve-problem-childhood-obesity">Take a Look at Our Action Plan to Solve the Problem of Childhood Obesity
First lady Michelle Obama speaks at an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Tuesday, May 11, 2010, in Washington, to discuss the findings of the Childhood Obesity Task Force report. In February, Mrs. Obama launched the Let's Move, a campaign to solve the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation.
US Transport Secretary Ray LaHood (front C) jokingly motions for photographers to board the Maglev (magnetic levitation) train before his test run on an experimental track in Tsuru, 100km west of Tokyo, on May 11, 2010. The US transport chief took a test ride on Japan's super-fast magnetic train, a contender for President Barack Obama's multi-billion-dollar national railway project. Japan is up against China, France, Germany and other bidders as it seeks to sell its 'Shinkansen' bullet and magnetic trains for the 13-billion-USD US high-speed national rail grid.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar tells reporters that the Obama administration is proposing to split up an Interior Department agency that oversees offshore drilling, the Minerals Management Service, as part of its response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, at the Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. One agency would be charged with inspecting oil rigs, investigating oil companies and enforcing safety regulations, while the other would oversee leases for drilling and collection of billions of dollars in royalties. From left to right are: Tom Strickland, assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks, Salazar, and David Hayes, deputy secretary.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MAY 11: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R) addresses the Republican National Committee's State Chairman's meeting with RNC Chairman Michael Steele at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center May 11, 2010 in National Harbor, Maryland. The former Georgia politician and college professor talked to the assembled GOP leaders about how the 2010 election will 'change America.' Saying that President Barack Obama rammed through healthcare reform using a political 'machine,' Gingrich said, 'We dont' need to understand it. We need to defeat it and replace it with people who are about America.'
You dont look convinced Newt.
President Barack Obama calls British Prime Minister David Cameron from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2010.
Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron talks to U.S. President Barack Obama
WASHINGTON - MAY 11: Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks to the media prior to a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department May 11, 2010 in Washington, DC. Karzai was in Washington for talks with U.S. officials regarding relations between the two countries. He will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens as Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks to the media
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/11/meet-elena-kagan">Video: Meet Elena KaganWASHINGTON - MAY 12: U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Solicitor General Elena Kagan (C) arrives for meetings with Senators at the U.S. Capitol May 12, 2010 in Washington, DC. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the former Harvard Law School dean would be the first justice to join the high court without prior judicial experience since William Rehnquist in 1972. Kagan was selected by President Barack Obama to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.  (If you listen closely, you can hear the "Mary Tyler Moore" theme song playing...)
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, meets with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. , as she makes the rounds with Senate leaders and Judiciary Committee members on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, meets with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/12/reaffirming-commitment-partnership-between-us-and-afghanistan">Reaffirming Commitment to Partnership Between the U.S. and Afghanistan
President Barack Obama, left, and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, right, shake hands following their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, May 12, 2010.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C), Defense Secretary Robert Gates (3rd L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen (2nd L) are pictured at a news conference by U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in the East Room of the White House in Washington May 12, 2010. Obama and Karzai met at the White House on Wednesday in a show of unity aimed at patching over differences at a pivotal time in the nearly nine-year-old war.
President Barack Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan walk along the South Lawn Drive of the White House, following their working lunch, May 12, 2010.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x297258">Obama proposes ... tax on oil companies
Protesters display placards against BP during a demonstration in front of the BP Amoco Corporation Government Affairs Office in Washington, DC, on May 12, 2010. BP battled on May 12 to cap a huge oil leak, lowering a box dubbed 'a top-hat' into the Gulf of Mexico amid mounting US anger over a spill flowing unchecked into the sea for three weeks. Frustrated by the failure to staunch the leak, President Barack Obama dispatched a top team to BP's command center in Houston, Texas, to throw the administration's scientific expertise behind the British oil giant's efforts.
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