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Obama Speech Text
Here is the prepared transcript of President Obama's speech on his long term budget plans at George Washington University in Washington, D.C, as provided to reporters by the White House. = April 13, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery The Country We Believe ...
Obama Energy Speech
Remarks of President Barack Obama—As Prepared for Delivery A Secure Energy Future Georgetown University March 30, 2011 As Prepared for Delivery— We meet here at a tumultuous time for the world. In a matter of months, we’ve seen regimes toppled and democracy take root across North Africa and ...
The Budget Battle
After days of dribs and drabs about what's in the Obama budget, today we finally get the figures on what exactly the President wants to do with his budget for the Fiscal Year 2012. The White House does call for cuts, highlighted by a five year freeze on domestic, non-security ...
Many Budget Questions
Two weeks from today, President Obama will send Congress his budget for Fiscal Year 2012. The unanswered question is how much that spending plan will offer in terms of real budget cutbacks and changes. While the President again mentioned the need for deficit reduction in his State of the Union ...
Extra Health Waivers
For weeks, I have been dutifully checking the Obana Administration web site that listed the waivers granted to one provision of the new health reform law. But then I didn't check the day after the State of the Union Address. And so, I missed the addition of over 500 new ...
A Muted Response
One thing that is not appealing in a State of the Union Address is the routine of lawmakers jumping out of their seats repeatedly for standing ovations. That sort of went away this year. Many people scoffed at the idea of lawmakers moving around and not sitting just on the ...
El Pasoans React To State Of The Union Address
At the McCall Center on Tuesday night, all eyes were glued to a huge screen as a mostly Democratic crowd listened to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address.The crowd listened as Obama spoke about the economy bouncing back, health care and letting Americans see how the government spends ...
El Paso Unemployment Rate Higher Than State, Nation
In President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, he spoke about how he is going to handle the millions still out of work. For El Paso, where the unemployment rate is now higher than the state and the entire country, many were listening closely.Among those who would watch the ...
White House Talking Points
Just before President Obama began his State of the Union Address to Congress, the White House released a fact sheet on his "Plan to Win the Future." -THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press Secretary____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 25, 2011 The State of the Union:President Obama's Plan to Win the Future In his ...
State of the Union
Over an hour before the speech, the White House released the full prepared text of tonight's State of the Union Address. - THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2011 Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery State of ...
Obama Speech Excerpts
The White House has released excerpts of President Obama's State of the Union Address to the Congress. - THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2011 Excerpts from President Obama's State of the Union Address As Prepared for Delivery- ...
Looming Budget Battles
It might be about time to grab the pot on the back burner labeled "Budget Battles," and move it to the front of the Legislative Stove, because things are starting to simmer in Congress. Last week, a group of more conservative Republicans turned up the heat with a plan that ...
A Big Week
President Obama gets the chance to re-set the political landscape tomorrow night with his State of the Union Address. Will it be memorable? Or just another speech? What should we expect? The White House says a main focus will be jobs and the economy, which is something Democrats in the ...
Whither Tax Reform
As a key House committee kicks off hearings today on reform of the federal tax code, it's a reminder that Congress has not done anything major on tax reform in 25 years. You have to rewind to 1986, when Ronald Reagan was President, Dan Rostenkowski was the Chairman of the ...
Back To Business
As this week comes to an end, it's obvious that lawmakers in the Congress are starting to get back to business after taking several days to honor those killed and wounded in the Arizona shootings last weekend. Whether it was the speech of President Obama to a memorial service in ...
Different D.C. Dynamic
As President Obama gets his internal clock adjusted this week to Eastern Time following his family vacation in Hawaii, he will be confronted by a different dynamic, a divided U.S. Congress. The House goes over to the Republicans as the 112th Congress convenes on Wednesday. While the Senate stays in ...
Jobs Bill Slows
It has been over six weeks since President Obama used his State of the Union Address to vow action on jobs and the economy. The Congress though is still dickering over the details of job creation plans. First, the Senate suddenly changed course during the snows of February, as Democrats ...
The Power of Sixty
Lots of people have been surprised to find out in recent days that Sen. Elect Scott Brown (R-MA) is still just the Senator-Elect, and not yet a voting member of the U.S. Senate. That delay was a good thing for Democrats this week. With Brown saying he does not expect ...
The Hand of Bipartisanship
One maxim of politics in the almost 30 years that I have been around the Congress is that it is always easy to urge the other party to be bipartisan, but not that easy to actually forge a deal between the two sides on major issues of the day. And ...
Obama v SCOTUS
There was a lot of discussion in the hallways of the Congress the day after the State of the Union Address about President Obama's jab at the U.S. Supreme Court over a recent decision on campaign finance limits. Video of Justice Samuel Alito appeared to show him verbally objecting to ...
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