【正文】 stand with America’s seniors and America’s .第四篇：美國總統(tǒng)每周電臺演講5月29日Prepared Remarks of PresidentBarack ObamaWeekly AddressSaturday, May 29th, 2010This weekend, as we celebrate Memorial Day, families across America will gather in backyards and front porches, fire up the barbeque, kick back with friends, and spend time with people they care is as it should I also hope that as you do so, you’ll take some time to reflect on what Memorial Day is all about。t pay a ransom in exchange for raising the debt as reckless as a government shutdown is, an economic shutdown that es with default would be dramatically 39。try to make ends meet。第一篇：美國總統(tǒng)每周電臺演講 2美國總統(tǒng)每周電臺演講：華盛頓白宮奧巴馬講話WEEKLY ADDRESS: Congress Must Act Now toPass a Budget andRaise the Debt CeilingWASHINGTON, 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 ing weeks: pass a budget by the end of themonth to keep the government open, and raise the debt ceiling so America can pay its should vote to do these now, so that we can keep creating new jobs and expandingopportunity for the middle of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressThe White HouseSeptember 21, 2013Weekly AddressHi, was five years ago this week that a financial crisis on Wall Street spread to MainStreet, and very nearly turned a recession into a 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 was a crisis from which we’re still trying to thanks to the grit and determination ofthe American people, we are steadily the past three and a half years, our businesses have created seven and a half million housing market is ’ve bee less dependent on foreign carecosts are growing at the slowest rate in 50 in just over a week, millions of Americanswithout health care will be able to get covered for less than $100 a our economy is gaining we’re finally tackling threats to middleclass prosperity thatWashington neglected for far too as any middleclass family listening right now knows,we’ve got a long way to go to get to where we need to after five years spent digging outof crisis, the last thing we need is for Washington to manufacture that’s what will happen in the next few weeks if Congress doesn’t meet two : the most basic Constitutional duty Congress has is passing a if it doesn’t passone before September 30th – a week from Monday – the government will shut so willmany services the American people personnel, including those deployed overseas,won’t get their paychecks on loans for rural munities, small business owners, andnew home buyers will be research into lifesaving discoveries and renewable energywill be immediately of this will be prevented if Congress just passes a : Congress must authorize the Treasury to pay America’s is done with a simple,usually routine vote to raise what’s called the debt the 1950s, Congress has alwayspassed it, and every President has signed it – Democrats and Republicans, including 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 is important: raising the debt ceiling is not the same as approving more lets uspay for what Congress already doesn’t cost a dime, or add a penny to our , right now, our deficits are already falling at the fastest rate since the end of World War the end of this year, we’ll have cut our deficits by more than half since I took reducing our deficits and debt is