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White House Watch

Today, President Barack Obama will host a series of three meetings on
police-community relations, one week after a grand jury announced its
decision not to charge a white police officer in the shooting of Michael
Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, an unarmed black teenager.
Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, and around the country have shined a
spotlight on the importance of strong, collaborative relationships between
local police and the communities they protect and serve, the White House
said in a statement.
At 12:00 PM (Noon), President Obama will sit down with members of his
Cabinet to discuss Ferguson on a federal level funding of programs that
give military-style equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies.
At 2 PM in the Oval Office, Obama will hold a roundtable of young civil
rights leaders to discuss their efforts and broader challenges we still face as
a nation including the mistrust between law enforcement and communities
of color, according to the White House.
Finally, at 2:50 PM, the President will meet with elected officials,
community, civil rights, and faith leaders, as well as law enforcement
officials from across the country to discuss strengthening trust between
police and communities. The full guest list for this meeting will be released

later Monday, but will include local leaders from Ferguson, Missouri and
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio.

Capitol Hill News

Lame Ducks Try to Pack Two Years of Work into Two Weeks After two
years of gridlock, the 113th Congress is coming to a closemeaning all the
unfinished work leaders had postponed debate over must finally be dealt
with. Hot topics such as authorizing military action against ISIS and
executive nominees will have to wait until the next Congress, because this
one still has some work needed to finish.
First up on the lame-duck agenda is a familiar one: funding the government.
Congress faces a December 11 deadline ten days away when the
government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed. Many in the
House Republican Conference are urging Speaker John Boehner to let the
government shut down, in retaliation to President Barack Obamas
immigration executive order, although Boehner has signaled he will not do
this.
Meanwhile, a debate over tax breaks has left Congress and spiraled into the
White House. A number of personal and business tax breaks will expire in
the next weeks, and the White House has threatened to veto the agreement
between Boehner and outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The
White House veto threat leave Boehner and Reid back at Square 1 in their
negotiations.

Today In
1824 For the second and last time in U.S. history, the presidential election
goes to the U.S. House of Representatives, with none of the candidates
receiving a majority of the Electoral College. The U.S. House would
eventually choose John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay,
and William Crawford.

 1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress with a now-famous name, is arrested

for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and comply with the
law, setting into motion a year-long boycott of the Montgomery bus system.
1959 The Antarctic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by 12 countries,
including the United States, designating Antarctica, the only continent
without a native human population, as a scientific preserve free of military
activity.
2009 President Barack Obama announces the deployment of 30,000 more
U.S. troops to Afghanistan in a prime-time address to the nation from West
Point.