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Prez’s Weekly Address: His Perspective of the G-20 Summit

WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama recounted the progress made this past week in advancing America’s national security and economic prosperity at the United Nations and the G-20. The administration established the U.S. as a leader in the pursuit for clean energy, and agreed to reform the global financial system to prevent [...]

September 29, 2009No CommentRead More

Prez’s Weekly Address: 50% of America Losing Health Care?

WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama highlighted a new report from the Treasury Department that found that about half of all Americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point over the next ten years. The report also found that Americans under 21 have more than a 50-percent chance of [...]

September 12, 2009No CommentRead More

Prez’s Weekly Address: Attempting to Debunk Health Care Reform ‘Myths’

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Obama set the record straight on some of the most pervasive myths about health insurance reform. He addressed a range of “outrageous myths” including that illegal immigrants will be covered, that abortions will be funded by taxpayer dollars, that so-called “death panels” will be formed to decide who [...]

August 25, 2009No CommentRead More

Prez’s Weekly Address: Town Hall Meetings Exaggerated?

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama described just how dysfunctional the current health insurance system is and how reform will fix it. Right now, the American people have a system that works better for the insurance industry than it does for them. Reform will put an end 14,000 Americans losing their insurance [...]

August 17, 20091 CommentRead More

Pres.’s Weekly Address: Health Care Reform for Small Businesses

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama cited a report released this morning by the Council of Economic Advisors in explaining how health insurance reform will strengthen small businesses in America.  With small businesses paying up to 18 percent more for health insurance than large businesses, too many small businesses are forced to [...]

July 27, 2009No CommentRead More

Pres.’s Weekly Address: …More Health Care Reform Talk

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama called on Congress to seize this opportunity – one that may not come again for decades – and finally pass health care reform. With families unable to keep up with skyrocketing costs, premiums rising three times faster than wages, businesses shedding jobs, and deficits piling up [...]

July 19, 2009No CommentRead More

Pres.’s Weekly Address: Recovery Act – Progress or Prolongation?

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama touted the gains the Recovery Act has made in a little more than 100 days.  While the recession is still far from over, the Recovery Act has helped end the economic free fall, ease the rate of monthly job losses from 700,000 a month, extend unemployment [...]

July 13, 2009No CommentRead More

U.S. and Russia Promise to Reduce Nuclear Weapons

On Monday, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met at the Kremlin in Moscow and each promised to reduce nuclear arms in their respective nations. Obama expressed that the two countries must take a leadership position in the reduction of nuclear weapons.  “It is very difficult for us to exert that leadership unless [...]

July 7, 2009No CommentRead More

Pres.’s Weekly Address: History …and Health Care

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama celebrated the unyielding American spirit that has defined our past and will lead us into the future.  Even as we face daunting challenges – two wars, a deep recession, skyrocketing health care costs, and a dependence on foreign oil, we have always overcome long odds and [...]

July 6, 2009No CommentRead More

Pres.’s Weekly Address: Clean Energy & New Jobs

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama praised the House of Representatives for passing the energy bill on Friday evening. This historic piece of legislation will not just lessen our dependence on foreign oil, but also spark a clean energy transformation in our economy that will create millions of new American jobs that [...]

June 29, 2009No CommentRead More

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