WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: (L-R) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair, Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and House Committee on Small Business Chair Naydia Velazquez (D-NY) participate in a small business forum at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. More than 100 small business leaders and politicians were invited by the White House to participate in the small business financing forum. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: (L-R) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair, Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and House Committee on Small Business Chair Naydia Velazquez (D-NY) participate in a small business forum at the Treasury Department November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. More than 100 small business leaders and politicians were invited by the White House to participate in the small business financing forum.

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  6. The left hand of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs shows a shopping list featuring "Eggs, Milk, Hope and Change", the latter two words used heavily in U.S. President Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign, during Gibbs' daily news briefing at the White House in Washington February 9, 2010.
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  10. White House Press Secretary Robert holds out the palm of his hand which he has written down notes on to show members of the media during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.
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  12. White House Press Secretary Robert points to the palm of his hand which he has written down notes to show members of the media during a press briefing at the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.
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