Obama Weekly Address

Watch the Weekly Presidential Address as President Obama talks about Health Care Reform, which at the present time is at the top of his agenda. Recently, President Obama returned from a foreign trip. He was away from the U.S. about 1 week, but upon his return, he started working immediately on his health care reform policies. The bill that he will try to pass in Congress shortly should be the hardest legislation that he will try to pass since he became President of the United States. It will be President Obama's first big opportunity to test the high waters that may be lurking for him in the Congress. President Obama is try to do so very much for the country, and it is because there is just so much to do, and he cannot take a break. Vacations are not very frequent for this President, unlike past Presidents. President Bush used to travel to Camp David every weekend for his retreat with his family. His favorite past time was reading, as he became a very avid reader.
Unlike President Bush, President Obama has no time to casually read books. He must tackle the problems that this country is facing now, the same problems that President Bush either started, or the problems that he inherited from past terms of Presidents, but failed to act. So the burden of the leader of the free world is now squarely in the hands of the present President of the United States, Barack Obama.
  Again, listen to his weekly address as he talks about the cost of health care, and what he wants to do about the problem.

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New Heads to run the Food and Drug Administration

In his weekly radio address, President Obama highlights the importance of having safe food available to the people of the United States. He outlines the challenges of his newly elected team to work in tandem to manage the Food and Drug Administration. Leading the way, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, along with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, who becomes the FDA's principal deputy commissioner. As a parent, President Obama has a personal stake in the need for safe foods for his wife and children. He states that his children must be kept safe from foods that can be contaminated, and he put together a team to make sure that suppliers of the food chain be held accountable for the foods that they produce and distribute. Watch the video below.....

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Obama says stimulus is 'major milestone on our road to recovery'; GOP's Murkowski says it's not

President Obama uses his weekly video/radio address to hail the late Friday passage of the $787 billion economic stimulus package that he and his fellow Democrats supported. And he says of the economic challenge the nation faces that:

"America, we will prove equal to this task. It will take time, and it will take effort, but working together, we will turn this crisis into opportunity and emerge from our painful present into a brighter future. After a week spent with the fundamentally decent men and women of this nation, I have never been more certain of that."

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski delivers the weekly Republican address.

She says that:

"Democrats, it seems, settled on a random dollar amount in the neighborhood of $1 trillion and then set out to fill the bucket. Republicans, on the other hand, thought that we should figure out what was at the root of the problem, and then see how much it would cost to fix."

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