President Obama: Continue to strengthen American manufacturing
With the Boeing Plant in Everett, Washington as a backdrop, President Obama uses this week's address to say there's "something we can do to create new jobs and new manufacturing and new security for the middle-class. In America, we don’t give up, we ...
President Obama asks America to make its voice heard on payroll tax cut
Saying that America cannot "waver in our resolve to do everything in our power to keep stoking the fires of the recovery," this week President Obama calls on Congress to pass the payroll tax cut:
Congress needs to stop this middle class tax hike from h...
President Obama urges Congress to help homeowners
Keeping the focus on his blueprint for America, today President Obama reiterates his plan to "help millions of responsible homeowners," while building an economy that will last:
Right now, there are more than 10 million homeowners in this country who, ...
President Obama calls for an end to ‘gridlock and games’
President Obama used today's weekly address to revisit his recent State of the Union Address, where he:
... laid out a blueprint for an economy built to last – an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, ...
President Obama promotes jobs through tourism
Calling tourism "the number one service we export," and saying that "the more folks who visit America, the more Americans we get back to work," President Obama uses today's weekly address to promote the idea of letting the world know that "America is o...
Obama discusses insourcing, merging federal business agencies in weekly address
You’ve heard of outsourcing – well, this is insourcing. And in this make or break moment for the middle class and those working to get into the middle class, that’s exactly the kind of commitment to country that we need.
President Barack Obam...
Obama declares it’s a ‘make or break moment’ for middle class
…this is a make or break moment for the middle class and all those working to get there. We’ve got to keep at it. We’ve got to keep creating jobs. And we’ve got to keep rebuilding our economy so that everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does the...
President Obama looks back on 2011, and forward to 2012
President Obama wraps up 2011 with a look back at momentous events from the year, while noting there's more to be done:
The last year has been a time of great challenge and great progress for our country. We ended one war and began to wind down another...
The Obamas wish America a ‘Merry Christmas.’ Repeatedly.
THE PRESIDENT: Giving of ourselves; service to others – that’s what this season is all about. For my family and millions of Americans, that’s what Christmas is all about. It reminds us that part of what it means to love God is to love one another...
President Obama marks the end of the Iraq War in weekly address
This week, President Obama marks the official end to the war in Iraq by thanking the men and women who served:
For nearly nine years, our nation has been at war in Iraq. More than 1.5 million Americans have served there with honor, skill, and bravery. ...
Obama slams Republicans for blocking vote on consumer watchdog agency head Richard Cordray
I refuse to take “no” for an answer. Financial institutions have plenty of high-powered lawyers and lobbyists looking out for them. It’s time consumers had someone on their side.
A combative President Barack Obama, hot off the fire of his rousi...
Obama talks payroll tax cut extension in weekly address
Unfortunately, too many Republicans in Congress don’t seem to share that same sense of urgency. Over the last few months, they’ve said “no” to most of these jobs bills. “No” to putting teachers and firefighters back to work. “No” to put...
