Government Press Briefings

Depictions of formal gatherings and press briefings at government institutions, featuring speakers addressing audiences about various topics.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken introduces President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Vice President Kamala D. Harris to State Department employees, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an interview with Lee So-Jung of the Korean Broadcasting System on March 18, 2021.

President Barack Obama signs H.R. 2097, the Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coin Act, at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Aug. 16, 2010.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual joint press conference with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, in London, United Kingdom, on May 3, 2021.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2021.

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks on while NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks during a meeting with NASAs SpaceX Crew-2, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana, Monday, June 6, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington DC.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with staff and families of U.S. Embassy Suriname, in Paramaribo, Suriname on September 17, 2020.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets virtually with UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 14, 2022.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Brief Business on Gulf Coast Investment Opportunities

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS PRESS CONFERANCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 18 2022.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - FALL WEATHER UPDATE PRESS CONFERENCE

Acting Secretary Sullivan delivers remarks and administers oath of office at Swearing-in Ceremony for the 147th Foreign Service Specialist Orientation Class, at the U.S. Department of State on April 20, 2018. (

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - North American Competitiveness Council - US, Canada and Mexico

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman delivers virtual keynote remarks at the National Democratic Institute from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 2021.

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks and administers the Oath of Office to the 195th Foreign Service Generalist Class, at the Department of State, October 12, 2018.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - North American Competitiveness Council - US, Canada and Mexico

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken virtually meets with staff of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 2022.

President Barack Obama leans backward as Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel speaks during a National Economic Council and Domestic Policy Council planning meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Feb. 11, 2010.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Press Conference Cuba (Secretary Gutierrez and Condoleezza Rice)

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hosts a town hall meeting for Department of State employees, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2018.

Inside the Feral Reserve Board

The Brady press briefing room and West Wing of the White House

2008 Democratic candidates for President speak at the DNC winter meeting

U.S. President Bill Clinton on telephone in oval office, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Bob McNeely, White House Photographer, January 26, 1993

Office of the Secretary - Tribute to the Victims of September 11, 2001 Deputy Assistant Secretary Findlay

Vice President Harris and President Yoon at GSFC. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during a tour of NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center with President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in Greenbelt, Md.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets virtually with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 26, 2021. Secretary Blinken was joined by Deputy Chief of Staff Tom Sullivan, Senior Director Juan Gonzalez, Charge d'Affaires John Creamer, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Acting Assistant Secretary Julie Chung, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Senior Bureau Official Nancy Jackson, Director General of North American Affairs Roberto Velasco, and Legal Advisor Alejandro Celorio Alcantara.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks to the press on our efforts to bring Americans home and our support for the broader evacuation from Afghanistan, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on August 25, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual discussion with young democratic leaders from around the world as part of the Summit for Democracy, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 8, 2021.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry examine a display of Olympic medal during a tour of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 21, 2015, before the Secretary addressed an international press corps who had been working at the facility during his weeklong negotiations with Iranian leaders about the future of their nuclear program.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken co-signs the presidential commissions for our new Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman, our new Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian P. McKeon, and other newly appointed officials at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on April 26, 2021.

(R-L) Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens), Federal Foreign Minister, and Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland, at a joint press conference in Berlin, 30 January 2024 / Photographed on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office

Office of the Administrator - A Day in the Life of EPA Administrator - Administrator Gina McCarthy signing the rule governing carbon dioxide emissions , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Central America Free Trade Agreement Trade Mission to El Salvador (Fusal, Amnet, Interiors, Ford Interview, Amcham Lunch, Bilat with Economy)

Assistant Secretary of State for North Eastern Affairs addresses reporters at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 2019.

Acting Assistant Secretary of State Mike Hammer responds to #AskState questions during the U.S. Department of State's first Twitter Briefing in Spanish in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2012.

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne at work in his office, Main Interior

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an interview with Linus Kaikai of Citizen TV in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 18, 2021.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are briefed by Rob Nabors, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, during a meeting in Chief of Staff Bill Daley's West Wing office at the White House to discuss ongoing efforts to find a balanced approach to the debt limit and deficit reduction, Saturday, July 30, 2011.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - North American Competitiveness Council - US, Canada and Mexico

President Barack Obama talks with, from left, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Assistant Press Secretary Tommy Vietor, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes, and Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon in the Situation Room of the White House, Feb. 27, 2010, following a conference call concerning the earthquake in Chile.

President Barack Obama works on his address to the nation regarding Syria, in the Map Room of the White House, Sept. 10, 2013. Seated from right are: Director of Speechwriting Cody Keenan; Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications; Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer; and former Director of Speechwriting Jon Favreau.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Press Conference: United States Patent to Electronic Patent Filing

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks at the inaugural meeting of the Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 21, 2021. Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley joined Secretary Blinken.

Signing ceremony, outside the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, for Executive Order protecting and conserving the striped bass and red drum fish populations, with President George W. Bush joined by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Maryland Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, Coastal Conservation Association Chairman Walter Fondren, American Sportfishing Association President Mike Nussman, Stripers Forever President Brad Burns, Shimano America Corporation President Dave Pfeiffer, and other dignitaries

Jimmy Carter at his desk in the Oval Office circa 13 December 1977.

President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Jon Favreau, Director of Speechwriting, while reading a draft of the State of the Union address at Personal Aide Anita Decker's desk in the Outer Oval Office, Jan. 23, 2012.

Crew members for the joint Space Shuttle / Mir mission field questions from the press at JSC. Left to right are cosmonauts Nikolai M. Budarin, Anatoliy Y. Solovyov, Gennadiy M. Strekalov, Vladimir N. Dezhurov, and astronauts Bonnie J. Dunbar, Norman E. Thagard, along with Kari L. Fluegel of the Public Affairs Office's (PAO) News and Media Services Branch. Flags representing the international space partners - Russia, the United States, the European Space Agency (ESA), Canada and Japan - are displayed behind the conference participants.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, Belgium, on March 4, 2022.

Vice President Kamala Harris signs Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonoughs oath used during his swearing-in ceremony Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in the Vice Presidents Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on December 15, 2021.

Office of the Administrator - Agency Headquarters Renaming Ceremony - ceremony to mark the renaming of the Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in honor of President Bill Clinton , Environmental Protection Agency

Melbourne - Annex Office Building - 1989, United States photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Icelandic Foreign Minister Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 18, 2021.

President Barack Obama prepares to greet workers during a shift change at Nestlé Purina PetCare facility in Allentown, Pa., Dec. 4, 2009.

Romney Campaigns in South Carolina

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Donald Evans White House CD

Israeli Foreign Ministry Head of North Americas Visits Orit Moshe chats with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after the Secretary arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on November 24, 2015, after arriving from the United Arab Emirates for meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

India Artemis Accords Signing. Indian Ambassador Taranjit Sandhu, right, talks with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, after having signed the Artemis Accords, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington. India is the twenty seventh country to sign the Artemis Accords, which establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations participating in NASAs Artemis program.

Press briefing, concerning the President's International Initiative to Combat Kleptocracy, featuring remarks by Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich, and Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Pat O'Brien, among other officials.

Spokesperson Price delivers remarks to the press, at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, D.C., on August 18, 2021.

Secretary of State Blinken holds a COVID-19 task force meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2021.

President Barack Obama delivers a health care address to a joint session of Congress at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2009..

U.S.-Mexico Memorandum of Understanding signing event at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, leading the proceedings

USAID Administrator Samantha Power recognizes Dulles Operation Allies Welcome staff, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 13, 2021.

President Barack Obama is reflected in a mirror during a visit with members of the Office of the Staff Secretary, May 21, 2009.

Senator John Kerry at podium of major policy address on the economy, CSU- Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, CA

Office of Enforcement and Compliance - Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China , Environmental Protection Agency

Scooter Libby is found guilty on 4 of 5 counts of obstructing justice, lying and perjury

Office of the Secretary - CANADIAN MINISTER PETTIGREW

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Congressman Jim Moran from Virginia , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a Civil Society Roundtable, in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 17, 2021.

Event marking Department of the Interior's 159th anniversary, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne presiding

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki looks on as Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice delivers remarks during a briefing Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House.

Office of the Secretary - EXPORT IMPORT BANK ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS VIDEO AMERICAN JOBS, AMERICAN VALUES

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in North Atlantic Council meetings in Brussels, Belgium, on March 23, 2021.

President Donald Trump, Press conference, during the Corona Virus Pandemic. March 2020

Svenja Schulze, Bundesministerin fuer wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, trifft Bisher Al-Khasawneh, Premierminister des Haschemitischen Koenigreichs Jordanien, zum Gespraech in Amman, 07.11.2023

Vice President Joseph Biden, with Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women�s Issues Catherine Russell and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, participates in a roundtable discussion on women�s role in the economy at DeNA, a Tokyo-based tech company, in Tokyo, Japan, on December 3, 2013.

WASHINGTON, DC (September 21, 2022) - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas attends an interagency brief at FEMA Headquarters to discuss response and recovery efforts for Hurricane Fiona and Typhoon Merbok. President Joseph R. Biden approved an emergency declaration for Puerto Rico on Sunday, authorizing FEMA to continues to coordinate all disaster relief efforts while providing lifesaving and life-sustaining support.

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President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participate in a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 28, 2019.

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TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. Jeanie Webb, center, president of Rose State College, signs an education partnership agreement among Rose State College, the OC-ALC and the 72nd Air Base Wing during a ceremony held on Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Jan. 17. The partnership provides Rose State with access to industry resources and experts while providing a pipeline for Roses STEM students to explore a career at the OC-ALC, which is the largest single-site employer in the state of Oklahoma.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Office Acting Director Dr. Kari Johnstone deliver remarks on the release of the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 1, 2021.

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