President's Schedule: Tuesday, April 27

President Obama begins his day with a meeting of his deficit reduction commission (formally known as the "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform;") afterwards he'll deliver remarks in the Rose Garden.

Then it's wheels up for the heartland, in the latest installment of Obama's White House to Main Street tour. First stop: the Siemens Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Plant in Fort Madison, Iowa. The President will then speak with workers and share his views on growing the economy and putting Americans back to work.

The President will later tour a local business in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa and hold a town hall meeting at Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa. He'll spend the night in Des Moines.

Speaking of the deficit commission, it holds its first formal meeting at the White House Conference Center where they will hear remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, OMB Director Peter Orszag, and Former OMB Directors Robert Reischauer and Rudolph Penner.

In-Town Travel Pool
Wires: AP, Reuters, Bloomberg
Wire Photos: AP, Reuters, AFP
TV Corr & Crew: CBS
Print: Washington Post
Radio: SRN

Out-of-Town Travel Pool
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Wire Photos: AP, Reuters, AFP
TV Corr & Crew: CBS
Print: AFP
Radio: NPR


EDT


8:30AM In-Town Travel Pool Call Time

9:30AM THE PRESIDENT greets members of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
Roosevelt Room
Still Photographer Pool spray at the top (Gather time 9:25AM – Briefing Room)

9:45AM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks underscoring the importance of forging bipartisan consensus around recommendations to meaningfully improve our long-run fiscal health
Rose Garden
Open Press (Pre-set 8:45AM – Final Gather 9:30AM – North Doors of the Palm Room)

CDT

12:30PM THE PRESIDENT tours the Siemens Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Plant
Fort Madison, Iowa
Travel Pool Coverage

1:10PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks on how to grow the economy and put Americans back to work
Siemens Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Plant
Open Press

2:00PM THE PRESIDENT tours a local business
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
Travel Pool Coverage

4:35PM THE PRESIDENT holds town hall meeting
Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, Iowa
Open Press

Briefing Schedule

Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton will gaggle aboard Air Force One

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On This Day

1822: Ulysses S. Grant was born. He was the 18th President, serving between 1869-77.

1861: President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, giving the federal government the extraordinary power to hold opponents in prison without appeal or judicial review.

Presidential Quote:

"A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out."
- Grover Cleveland