6月21日美国总统每周电台讲话

第一篇：6月21日美国总统每周电台讲话

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.Americans are concerned about the high price of gasoline.Everyone who commutes to work, purchases food, ships a product, or takes a family vacation feels the burden of higher prices at the pump.And families across our country are looking to Washington for a response.The fundamental problem behind high gas prices is that the supply of oil has not kept up with the rising demand across the world.One obvious solution is for America to increase our domestic oil production.So my Administration has repeatedly called on Congress to open access to new oil exploration here in the United States.Unfortunately, Democrats on Capitol Hill have rejected virtually every proposal.Now Americans are paying the price at the pump for this obstruction.So this week, I asked Democratic congressional leaders to take the side of working families and small businesses and farmers and ranchers and move forward with four steps to expand American oil and gasoline production.First, we should expand American oil production by increasing access to the Outer Continental Shelf, or OCS.Experts believe that the OCS could produce enough oil to match Americas current production for almost ten years.The problem is that Congress has restricted access to key parts of the OCS since the early 1980s.So Ive called on the House and Senate to lift this legislative ban and give states the option of opening up OCS resources off their shores while protecting the environment.Theres also an executive prohibition on exploration in the OCS, which I will lift when Congress lifts the legislative ban.Second, we should expand American oil production by tapping into the extraordinary potential of oil shale.Oil shale is a type of rock that can produce oil when exposed to heat and other processes.One major deposit in the Rocky Mountain West alone would equal current annual oil imports for more than a hundred years.Unfortunately, Democrats in Congress are standing in the way of further development.In last years omnibus spending bill, Democratic leaders inserted a provision blocking oil shale leasing on Federal lands.That provision can be taken out as easily as it was slipped in--and Congress should do so immediately.Third, we should expand American oil production by permitting exploration in northern Alaska.Scientists have developed innovative techniques to reach this oil with virtually no impact on the land or local wildlife.With a drilling footprint that covers just a tiny fraction of this vast terrain, America could produce an estimated 10 billion barrels of oil.That is roughly the equivalent of two decades of imported oil from Saudi Arabia.I urge members of Congress to allow this remote region to bring enormous benefits to the American people.Finally, we need to expand and enhance our refining capacity.It has been 30 years since a new refinery was built in our Nation, and lawsuits and red tape have made it extremely costly to expand or modify existing refineries.The result is that America now imports millions of barrels of fully refined gasoline from abroad.This imposes needless costs on American families and drivers.It deprives American workers of good jobs.And it needs to change.I know Democratic leaders have opposed some of these policies in the past.Now that their opposition has helped drive gas prices to record levels, I ask them to reconsider their positions.If congressional leaders leave for the Fourth of July recess without taking action, they will need to explain why $4-a-gallon gasoline is not enough incentive for them to act.This is a difficult time for many American families.Rising gasoline prices and economic uncertainty can affect everything from what food parents put on the table to where they can go on vacation.With the four steps I’ve laid out, Congress now has a clear path to begin easing the strain high gas prices put on your families pocketbook.These proposals will take years to have their full impact, so I urge Congress to take action as soon as possible.Together, we can meet the energy challenges we face--and keep our economy the strongest, most vibrant, and most hopeful in the world.Thank you for listening.

第二篇：6月28日美国总统每周电台讲话

This week, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives held a conference to highlight the work being done by our Nation's armies of compassion, with help from the Federal government.This conference demonstrated the remarkable difference these groups have made over the past eight years.When I first came to office, I was troubled to see many of our citizens' greatest needs going unmet.Too many addicts walked the rough road to recovery alone.Too many prisoners had the desire for reform but no one to show them the way.Across our country, the hungry, homeless, and sick begged for deliverance--and too many heard only silence in reply.The tragedy was that there were good men and women across America who had the desire to help but not the resources.Because many of them worked with small charities, they were overlooked by Washington as potential partners in service.And because many of them belonged to faith-based organizations, they were often barred from receiving support from the Federal government.So I set about to change this with a new approach called “compassionate conservatism.” This approach was compassionate, because it was rooted in a timeless truth: that we ought to love our neighbors as we'd like to be loved ourselves.And this approach was conservative, because it recognized the limits of government: that bureaucracies can put money in people's hands, but they cannot put hope in people's hearts.Putting hope in people's hearts is the mission of our Nation's faith-based and community groups, so my Administration decided to treat them as trusted partners.We held these groups to high standards and insisted on demonstrable results.And they have delivered on those expectations.Through their partnerships with the government, these organizations have helped reduce the number of chronically homeless by nearly 12 percent--getting more than 20,000 Americans off the streets.They have helped match nearly 90,000 children of prisoners with adult mentors.And they have helped provide services such as job placement for thousands of former inmates.Faith-based and community groups have also had a powerful impact overseas.In Africa, they have participated in our Malaria Initiative.In just over two years, this effort has reached more than 25 million people--and according to new data, malaria rates are dropping dramatically in many parts of that continent.These groups have also been a vital part of the Emergency Plan for AIDS relief.When we launched this program in 2003, about 50,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa were receiving anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS.Today, that number is nearly 1.7 million.Behind each of these statistics, there are stories of people whose lives have been changed by the kindness of faith-based and community organizations.One such person is Ramie Siler.Ramie was once lost to substance abuse, recidivism, and depression.Even when she tried to get clean for her daughter's high school graduation, Ramie couldn't break free from her addiction.Then she found a faith-based group called The Next Door.At The Next Door, Ramie met people who stood by her throughout her difficult recovery.They gave her a second chance to become a productive citizen and good mother.Today, Ramie is reunited with her daughter.She now helps other women as the Next Door case manager.When Ramie describes her turnaround, she uses the words of Saint Paul: “Old things have passed away;behold，all things are becoming new.”

I'm grateful to every American who works to create this spirit of hope.Because of you, our Nation has made great strides toward fulfilling the noble goals that gave rise to the Faith-Based and Community Initiative.Because of you, I'm confident that the progress we have made over the past eight years will continue.Because of you, countless souls have been touched and lives have been healed.Thank you for listening.

第三篇：美国总统每周电台演讲6月12日

Prepared Remarks of President

Barack Obama

Weekly Address

Saturday, Junne12th, 2010

More than a decade ago, Congress set up a formula that governs how doctors get paid by the Medicare program.The intent was to slow the growth of Medicare costs, but the result was a formula that has proposed cutting payments for America’s doctors year after year after year.These are cuts that would not only jeopardize our physicians’ pay, but our seniors’ health care.Since 2003, Congress has acted to prevent these pay cuts from going into effect.These votes were largely bipartisan, and they succeeded when Democrats ran Congress and when Republicans ran Congress – which was most of the time.This year, a majority of Congress is willing to prevent a pay cut of 21%--a pay cut that would undoubtedly force some doctors to stop seeing Medicare patients altogether.But this time, some Senate Republicans may even block a vote on this issue.After years of voting to defer these cuts, the other party is now willing to walk away from the needs of our doctors and our seniors.Now, I realize that simply kicking these cuts down the road another year is not a long-term solution to this problem.For years, I have said that a system where doctors are left to wonder if they’ll get fairly reimbursed makes absolutely no sense.And I am committed to permanently reforming this Medicare formula in a way that balances fiscal responsibility with the responsibility we have to doctors and seniors.In addition, we’re already taking significant steps to slow the growth of Medicare costs through health insurance reform – not by targeting doctors and seniors, but by eliminating 50% of the waste, fraud, and abuse in the system by 2012.This not only strengthens Medicare, it saves taxpayer dollars.I’m absolutely willing to take the difficult steps necessary to lower the cost of Medicare and put our budget on a more fiscally sustainable path.But I’m not willing to do that by punishing hard-working physicians or the millions of Americans who count on Medicare.That’s just wrong.And that’s why in the short-term, Congress must act to prevent this pay cut to doctors.If they don’t act, doctors will see a 21% cut in their Medicare payments this week.This week, doctors will start receiving these lower reimbursements from the Medicare program.That could lead them to stop participating in the Medicare program.And that could lead seniors to lose their doctors.We cannot allow this to happen.We have to fix this problem so that our doctors can get paid for the life-saving services they provide and keep their doors open.We have to fix this problem to keep the promise of Medicare for our seniors so that they get the health care they deserve.So I urge Republicans in the Senate to at least allow a majority of Senators and Congressmen to stop this pay cut.I urge them to stand with America’s seniors and America’s doctors.Thanks.

第四篇：美国总统每周电台演讲

美国总统每周电台演讲：华盛顿白宫奥巴马讲话

Weekly Address: End the Government Shutdown

WASHINGTON, DC— In this week’s address, President Obama saidhat Republicans in the House of Representatives chose to shut down the government over a health care law they don’t like.He urged the Congress to pass a budget that funds our government, with no partisan strings attached.The President made clear he will work with anyone of either party on ways to grow this economy, create new jobs, and get our fiscal house in order for the long haul – but not under the shadow of these threats to our economy.Remarks of President Barack Obama

Weekly Address The White House October 5, 2013

Good morning.Earlier this week, the Republican House of Representatives chose to shut down a government they don’t like over a health care law they don’t like.And I’ve talked a lot about the real-world consequences of this shutdown in recent days – the services disrupted;the benefits delayed;the public servants kicked off the job without pay.But today, I want to let the Americans dealing with those real-world consequences have their say.And these are just a few of the many heartbreaking letters I’ve gotten from them in the past couple weeks – including more than 30,000 over the past few days.Kelly Mumper lives in rural Alabama.She works in early education, and she has three kids of her own in the Marines.Here’s what she wrote to me on Wednesday.“Our Head Start agency„was forced to stop providing services on October 1st for over 770 children, and 175 staff were furloughed.I am extremely concerned for the welfare of these children.There are parents who work and who attend school.Where are they leaving their children„is it a safe environment„are [they] getting the food that they receive at their Head Start program?”

On the day Julia Pruden’s application to buy a home for her and her special needs children was approved by the USDA’s rural development direct loan program, she wrote me from Minot, North Dakota.“We put in an offer to purchase a home this weekend, and it was accepted„if funding does not go through, our chances of the American Dream [are] down the drain„We have worked really hard to get our credit to be acceptable to purchase a home„if it weren’t for the direct lending program provided by the USDA, we would not qualify to buy the home we found.”

These are just two of the many letters I’ve received from people who work hard;try to make ends meet;try to do right by their families.They’re military or military spouses who’ve seen commissaries closed on their bases.They’re veterans worried the services they’ve earned won’t be there.They’re business owners who’ve seen their contracts with the government put on hold, worried they’ll have to let people go.I want them to know, I read the stories you share with me.These are our fellow Americans.These are the people who sent us here to serve.And I know that Republicans in the House of Representatives are hearing the same kinds of stories, too.As I made clear to them this week, there’s only one way out of this reckless and damaging shutdown: pass a budget that funds our government, with no partisan strings attached.The Senate has already done this.And there are enough Republican and Democratic votes in the House of Representatives willing to do the same, and end this shutdown immediately.But the far right of the Republican Party won’t let Speaker John Boehner give that bill a yes-or-no vote.Take that vote.Stop this farce.End this shutdown now.The American people don’t get to demand ransom in exchange for doing their job.Neither does Congress.They don’t get to hold our democracy or our economy hostage over a settled law.They don’t get to kick a child out of Head Start if I don’t agree to take her parents’ health insurance away.That’s not how our democracy is supposed to work.That's why I won't pay a ransom in exchange for reopening the government.And I certainly won't pay a ransom in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.For as reckless as a government shutdown is, an economic shutdown that comes with default would be dramatically worse.I'll always work with anyone of either party on ways to grow this economy, create new jobs, and get our fiscal house in order for the long haul.But not under the shadow of these threats to our economy.Pass a budget.End this government shutdown.Pay our bills.Prevent an economic shutdown.These Americans and millions of others are counting on Congress to do the right thing.And I will do everything I can to make sure they do.Thank you.每周演讲：结束政府关门

华盛顿——在本周的演讲中，奥巴马总统指出，众议院共和党人因为不喜欢医疗保健法案而选择关闭政府。他敦促国会通过预算，为政府提供资金，不附加任何党派附带条件。总统明确表示，在发展美国经济、创造新工作岗位和为了长期发展而重整我们的财政机构的道路上，他愿意与两党中的任何人合作——但不是在对我们经济所做出的种种威胁的阴影笼罩下。

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第五篇：美国总统每周电台演讲 2

美国总统每周电台演讲：华盛顿白宫奥巴马讲话

WEEKLY ADDRESS: Congress Must Act Now toPass a Budget and

Raise the Debt Ceiling

WASHINGTON, DC— In his weekly address, President Obama said that the economy is makingprogress five years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, but to avoid anothercrisis, Congress must meet two deadlines in the coming weeks: pass a budget by the end of themonth to keep the government open, and raise the debt ceiling so America can pay its bills.Congress should vote to do these now, so that we can keep creating new jobs and expandingopportunity for the middle class.Remarks of President Barack Obama

Weekly AddressThe White HouseSeptember 21, 2013

Weekly Address

Hi, everybody.It was five years ago this week that a financial crisis on Wall Street spread to MainStreet, and very nearly turned a recession into a depression.In a matter of months, millions of Americans were robbed of their jobs, their homes, their savings –after a decade in which they’d already been working harder and harder to just get by.It was a crisis from which we’re still trying to recover.But thanks to the grit and determination ofthe American people, we are steadily recovering.Over the past three and a half years, our businesses have created seven and a half million newjobs.Our housing market is healing.We’ve become less dependent on foreign oil.Health carecosts are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years.And in just over a week, millions of Americanswithout health care will be able to get covered for less than $100 a month.So our economy is gaining traction.And we’re finally tackling threats to middle-class prosperity thatWashington neglected for far too long.But as any middle-class family listening right now knows,we’ve got a long way to go to get to where we need to be.And after five years spent digging outof crisis, the last thing we need is for Washington to manufacture another.But that’s what will happen in the next few weeks if Congress doesn’t meet two deadlines.First: the most basic Constitutional duty Congress has is passing a budget.But if it doesn’t passone before September 30th – a week from Monday – the government will shut down.And so willmany services the American people expect.Military personnel, including those deployed overseas,won’t get their paychecks on time.Federal loans for rural communities, small business owners, andnew home buyers will be frozen.Critical research into life-saving discoveries and renewable energywill be immediately halted.All of this will be prevented if Congress just passes a budget.Second: Congress must authorize the Treasury to pay America’s bills.This is done with a simple,usually routine vote to raise what’s called the debt ceiling.Since the 1950s, Congress has alwayspassed it, and every President has signed it – Democrats and Republicans, including PresidentReagan.And if this Congress doesn’t do it within the next few weeks, the United States will defaulton its obligations and put our entire economy at risk.This is important: raising the debt ceiling is not the same as approving more spending.It lets uspay for what Congress already spent.It doesn’t cost a dime, or add a penny to our deficit.Infact, right now, our deficits are already falling at the fastest rate since the end of World War II.Andby the end of this year, we’ll have cut our deficits by more than half since I took office.But reducing our deficits and debt isn’t even what the current standoff in Congress is about.Now, Democrats and some reasonable Republicans are willing to raise the debt ceiling and pass asensible budget – one that cuts spending on what we don’t need so we can invest in what we do.And I want to work with those Democrats and Republicans on a better bargain for the middle class.But there’s also a faction on the far right of the Republican party who’ve convinced their leadershipto threaten a government shutdown if they can’t shut off the Affordable Care Act.Some areactually willing to plunge America into default if they can’t defund the Affordable Care Act.Think about that.They’d actually plunge this country back into recession – all to deny the basicsecurity of health care to millions of Americans.Well, that’s not happening.And they know it’s not happening.The United States of America is not a deadbeat nation.We are a compassionate nation.We arethe world’s bedrock investment.And doing anything to threaten that is the height ofirresponsibility.That’s why I will not negotiate over the full faith and credit of the United States.Iwill not allow anyone to harm this country’s reputation, or threaten to inflict economic pain onmillions of our own people, just to make an ideological point.So, we are running out of time to fix this.But we could fix it tomorrow.Both houses of Congresscan take a simple vote to pay our bills on time, then work together to pass a budget on time.Then we can declare an end to governing by crisis and govern responsibly, by putting our focusback where it should always be – on creating new jobs, growing our economy, and expandingopportunity not just for ourselves, but for future generations.Thank you.