{"id":642039,"date":"2013-02-11T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=99b05680a59b50e3aaf75ed4ee39d745"},"modified":"2013-02-11T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T02:23:00","slug":"state-of-the-union-2013-white-house-open-for-questions-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642039","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union 2013: White House \u201cOpen for Questions\u201d Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, February 12 at 9:00 p.m. ET, President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union Address. Once again, we will be streaming an enhanced version of the speech that features graphics, data and stats that highlight the issues thePresident is discussing&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.gov\/SOTU\">WhiteHouse.gov\/SOTU<\/a>. We will also live stream that broadcast through the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/whitehouselive\/\">White House Live App<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/whitehouse\">Facebook<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/whitehouse\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;and our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105479712798762608629\/105479712798762608629\/posts\">Google+<\/a>&nbsp;page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Immediately following the speech, we&rsquo;ll be streaming a virtual Q&amp;A live from the White House. During this special &ldquo;Open for Questions&rdquo; event, a panel of senior advisors&nbsp;will be answering questions about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/state-of-the-union-2013\">President&#39;s address<\/a>&nbsp;submitted by citizens via Twitter (using the hashtag&#39;s #WHChat &amp; #SOTU), Google+ and Facebook, as well as from the live in-person audience of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/announcing-state-union-white-house-social\">White House Social&nbsp;participants<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">In the days following the speech, Administration officials will continue to take&nbsp;questions on key issue areas addressed in the President&#39;s speech submitted by the public on social media during an &quot;Open for Questions&quot; marathon.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">You can submit questions during the event on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitehouse\">Twitter<\/a> (#WHChat &amp; #SOTU), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whitehouse\">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/+Whitehouse\">Google+<\/a> or ahead of time with participating sites. Each &ldquo;Open for Questions&rdquo; event will be streamed live on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/whitehouse.gov\/SOTU\">WhiteHouse.gov\/SOTU<\/a>. &nbsp;Check out the full line up below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>&quot;Open for Questions&quot; Marathon<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Tuesday, February 12th:&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u200b10:00 p.m. ET: <b>Post-SOTU &quot;Open for Questions&quot;<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul2\">\n<li class=\"li5\">\n\t\tBrian Deese, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council<\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\">\n\t\tJosh Earnest, Principal Deputy Press Secretary (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jearnest44\">@JEarnest44<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\">\n\t\tSarah Bianchi, Director of Economic and Domestic Policy for the Vice President<\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\">\n\t\tFelicia Escobar, Senior Policy Director for Immigration<\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\">\n\t\tRoberto Rodriguez, Special Assistant to the President for Education Policy<\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\">\n\t\tHeather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p6\"><b>Wednesday, February 13th:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p6\">\n\t\t2:30 p.m. ET:&nbsp;<b>Jobs and the economy<\/b>&nbsp;with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/author\/Jason%20Furman\">Jason Furman, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council<\/a>, moderated by <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Finance<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p6\">\n\t\t3:15 p.m. ET:&nbsp;<b>Education<\/b>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/author\/Secretary%20Arne%20Duncan\">Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education<\/a>&nbsp;moderated by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.babble.com\/\">Babble<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p6\">\n\t\t4:00 p.m. ET:<b>&nbsp;Energy and the environment&nbsp;<\/b>with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/author\/Heather%20Zichal\">Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change<\/a>, moderated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/\">Popular Science<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p6\"><b>Thursday, February 14th:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p6\">\n\t\t4:30 p.m. ET: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/state-union-and-you-respond-address-ask-questions-hangout-president\">&quot;<b>Fireside Hangout&quot; with President Obama<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p6\"><b>Friday, February 15th:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p6\">\n\t\t3:00 p.m. ET:&nbsp;<b>Reducing gun violence<\/b>&nbsp;with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/02\/08\/update-bruce-reed-presidents-plan-reduce-gun-violence\">Bruce Reed, Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden<\/a>, moderated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivillage.com\/\">iVillage<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li class=\"p6\">\n\t\t4:00 p.m. ET:&nbsp;<b>Immigration reform<\/b>&nbsp;with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/author\/Cecilia%20Mu%C3%B1oz\">Cecilia Munoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, February 12 at 9:00 p.m. ET, President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union Address. Once again, we will be streaming an enhanced version of the speech that features graphics, data and stats that highlight the issues thePresident is discussing&nbsp;on&nbsp;WhiteHouse.gov\/SOTU. We will also live stream that broadcast through the&nbsp;White House Live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}