President Obama gestures while delivering remarks on education at the National Urban League's 100th anniversary convention in Washington on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Obama is the featured guest on the Thursday, July 29, 2010, edition of ABC's "The View," with co-hosts (from left) Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn)
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President Obama laughs as he's welcomed by a bipartisan duo - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (center), a Republican, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat - upon his arrival aboard Air Force One in Newark, N.J.
President Obama makes an appeal for bipartisanship on his legislative agenda on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, during a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Barack Obama steps out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to make an appeal for bipartisanship on his legislative agenda, in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
U.S. President Barack Obama holds a bi-partisan meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on July 27, 2010. House Minority Leader John Boehner (L), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (2nd L), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (not pictured) attended the meeting. UPI/Kristoffer Tripplaar/Pool
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to discuss his legislative agenda after meeting with bi-partisan Members of Congress in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 27, 2010. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to deliver remarks. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama makes an appeal for bipartisanship on his legislative agenda, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Obama walks from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to deliver remarks. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
**FILE** In this photo from June 19, 2009, President Obama delivers remarks at the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and Conference in Washington. Mr. Obama's once solid support among Hispanics is showing a few cracks, a troubling sign for Democrats desperate to get this critical constituency excited about helping the party hold onto Congress this fall. (Associated Press)
President Obama exits the Oval Office on his way to the Rose Garden at the White House on Monday to deliver remarks on campaign finance reform. "A vote to oppose these reforms is nothing less than a vote to allow corporate and special-interest takeovers of our elections. It is damaging to our democracy," Mr. Obama said. (Associated Press)
WALKING TALL: President Obama makes an exit after delivering a statement in the Rose Garden at the White House on Monday. Mr. Obama pushed for a Senate measure that would require more disclosure on campaign contributions. (Bloomberg)
President Obama delivers remarks on campaign finance reform on Monday, July 26, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
** FILE ** In this June 2, 2010 file photo, Paul McCartney plays "Michelle" in front of President Barack Obama, right, and first lady Michelle Obama, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
** FILE ** In this Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama holds up a document of Republican solutions given to him by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, before he spoke to Republican lawmakers at the GOP House Issues Conference in Baltimore. President Barack Obama says an economic plan by the House Republican leader just repeats job-killing policies of the past and would take the country "backward at a time when we need to keep America moving forward." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
President Obama delivers remarks on the economy in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 23, 2010.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama signs the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act at the White House on Thursday. The legislation, which passed both houses of Congress unanimously, calls on agencies to crack down on improper government payments.