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This morning the President met with Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad and House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt. After the meeting, the President spoke about the investments and hard choices his budget makes. He noted at the outset that it “will bring discretionary spending for domestic programs as a share of the economy to its lowest level in nearly h...
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AFTER ECONOMIC DAILY BRIEFING Cabinet Room 11:57 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, good morning. As all of you know, we have been busy on a whole host of fronts over the last several weeks, with the primary purpose of stabilizing the financial system so banks are lending again, so that the secondary markets are working again, in order to make sure that f...
Remarks by the President On Earmark Reform Room 350 Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building 11:23 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I ran for President pledging to change the way business is done in Washington and build a government that works for the people by opening it up to the people. And that means restoring responsibility and transparency and accountability...
Remarks by the President on transportation infrastructure Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. March 3, 2009 10:00 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you, DOT. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Please, have a seat. Thank you. Vice President Biden, Secretary LaHood, our co-chairs of the TIGER team, Lana Hurdle and Joel Szabat. Thank you all for the extraordinar...
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AS A CABINET AGENCY Department of Veterans Affairs Washington, D.C. 2:20 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. To Jim Benson for helping to organize this; for Mahdee for your service to our country — a Pledge of Allegiance that you’ve shown in your own commitment to prot...
The past three months have seem a storm of activity from the White House, with initiatives on housing, the markets, the auto industry, small businesses, international financial cooperation, and job creation through the Recovery Act. Today the President made it his central purpose of to explain the vision that has served as the foundation for every major initiative on the eco...
Keeping Promises In the Weekly Address this morning, President Obama explains how the budget he sent to Congress will fulfill the promises he made as a candidate. On fiscal responsibility, a fair tax code, a clean energy economy, real health care reform, and education, this budget sets out a new vision for our country. Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address Satur...
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE Room 450 Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building 11:10 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Please, have a seat. I’ve got my Illinois contingent over here. Please, everybody have a seat. Thank you so much. I just wanted to stop by and say hello. I know that you heard from Joe Biden at the to...
We are living through a time of global economic challenges that cannot be met by half measures or the isolated efforts of any nation. Now, the leaders of the Group of 20 have a responsibility to take bold, comprehensive and coordinated action that not only jump-starts recovery, but also launches a new era of economic engagement to prevent a crisis like this from ever happeni...
听力文本: In pockets of excellence across this country, we are seeing what children from all walks of life can, and will achieve, when we set high standards, have high expectations when we do a job of preparing them. Instead, it’s because politics and ideology had too often trumped our progress that we are in a situation that we’re in. For decades, Washington has been ...
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Today I have signed into law H.R. 146, the “Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009.” This landmark bill will protect millions of acres of Federal land as wilderness, protect more than 1,000 miles of rivers through the National Wild and Scenic River System, and designate thousands of miles of trails for the National Trails System. It...
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON A NEW STRATEGY FOR AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN Room 450 Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building 9:40 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Please be seated. Before I begin today, let me acknowledge, first of all, Your Excellencies, all the ambassadors who are in attendance. I also want to acknowledge both the civilians and our military personn...
The President reflects on lessons from his time spent outside Washington recently, which only reinforced the core principles in his budget. The budget will be his central focus throughout this week: “These investments are not a wish list of priorities that I picked out of thin air – they are a central part of a comprehensive strategy to grow this economy by attacking t...
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT GRADUATION OF COLUMBUS POLICE DIVISION’S 114TH CLASS Aladdin Shrine Center Columbus, Ohio 10:53 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please, everybody have a seat. Thank you so much. Well, what a wonderful reception. Thank you very much. I want to begin by thanking Mayor Coleman, Director Brown, and the entire Columbus police force f...
In his press conference last night, the President explained why he is committed to the change in course on the nation’s priorities that his budget represents. In response to a question about the deficit, he expounded on the reasons for addressing so many decades-old problems head-on: OBAMA: Of course I do, Ed, which is why we’re doing everything we can to reduce that d...
Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address Saturday, March 28, 2009 Washington, DC Even as we face an economic crisis which demands our constant focus, forces of nature can also intervene in ways that create other crises to which we must respond – and respond urgently. For the people of North and South Dakota and Minnesota who live along rivers spilling over their bank...
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE AMERICAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY Grand Foyer 11:07 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. One of the challenges we’ve confronted from the beginning of this administration is what to do with the state of the struggling auto industry. In recent months, my Auto Task Force has been reviewing requests by General Motors and Chrysler for ...
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) I promise these comments will be shorter than the ride — (laughter) — a ride, Mr. President, I’ve taken about a thousand times with Rob Andrews and Frank Lautenberg and others in the Northeast Corridor. But what gem we’ve had in the Northeast Corridor. It’s time it gets extended throughout the country a...
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND KING ABDULLAH OF JORDAN IN JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY Oval Office 11:23 A.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. Take your time, guys. We’re going to answer a few questions. First of all, I just want to welcome His Majesty King Abdullah to the White House. This is a first visit by a leader of another state; in part, it’s reciprocit...
The initial run of Open for Questions came to a close with the President’s online town hall this morning. With almost a hundred thousand participants and more than three and a half million votes, it was an eye-opening experience and showed the potential of what this kind of open engagement can accomplish. The online town hall had an amazing feel of something that had never b...