EconomyHello, Milwaukee! (Applause.) Hello, Milwaukee! (Applause.) Thank you. It is good to be back in Milwaukee. It is good to be - I’m almost home. (Applause.) I just hop on the 94 and I’m home. (Applause.) Take it all the way to the South Side.It is good - it is good to be here on [...]
President Obama spent the week visiting families and small business owners across the country, in between campaign fundraisers for Senators in some very tough campaigns. Fundraising is reported to have been in the millions, well ahead of the $5 million the Republicans are reported to have on hand. Beneficiaries of this 3 day cross country [...]
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act to protect ordinary Americans “against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.” Our Nation was entrenched in the Great Depression. Unemployment neared 20 percent, and millions of Americans struggled to provide for themselves and their families. In [...]
Hello, hello, hello! (Applause.) What’s going on? Thank you, everybody. And listen, it is good to see everybody. I appreciate everybody way back there. Hello, hello! (Applause.)
It is wonderful to be here. There are a couple of special guests I want to mention here before we get started. First of all, we got the Governor [...]
AFL-CIO EXECUTIVE COUNCILWalter E. Washington Convention Center
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat. Thank you.
It is good to spend my birthday with some good friends. (Laughter.) And as I look around the room, there are very few of you who I haven’t, in some form or [...]
Remarks from auto workers during the President’s visit to the GM and Chrysler auto plants in Detroit today.
“If I was close enough to say thank you to Mr. President that’s exactly how I’d convey it,” said Wanda Carlisle, 46, who checks studs and sealants and has worked at the plant 16 years. She was wearing [...]
Hello, everybody! (Applause.) Hello, Detroit! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you.Listen, before I just make a few short remarks, I just want to acknowledge some people who are here who have been critical in helping make sure that we are putting the U.S. auto industry back on track. First of all, my Secretary of Transportation Ray [...]
Well, I just had a terrific meeting with these small business owners here at Tastee Sub Shop. And I want to thank Dave and Carl for hosting us here today. And I highly recommend everybody buy a sandwich while you’re here, although as I said before, I can’t eat a 12-inch these days, now that [...]
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and
in order to establish the Federal Government as a model employer
of individuals with disabilities, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. Policy. Approximately 54 million Americans
are living with a disability. The Federal Government has
Today, I signed the Unemployment Insurance Extension to restore desperately needed assistance to two and a half million Americans who lost their jobs in the recession. After a partisan minority used procedural tactics to block the authorization of this assistance three separate times over the past weeks, Americans who are fighting to find a good [...]