【正文】 nies and labor unions think both of these are good ideas – so long as we pursue them in a way that protects benefits, protects patients, and protects the American hope Democrats and Republicans can e together next week around these and other members of Congress, I would simply say know the American people want us to reform our health insurance know where the broad areas of agreement we know where the sources of disagreement debating this issue exhaustively for a year, let’s move forward week is our chance to finally reform our health insurance system so it works for families and small ’s our chance to finally give Americans the peace of mind of knowing that they’ll be able to have affordable coverage when they need it ’s being tested here is not just our ability to solve this one problem, but our ability to solve any now, Americans are understandably despairing about whether partisanship and the undue influence of special interests in Washington will make it impossible for us to deal with the big challenges that face our want to see us focus not on scoring points, but on solving problems。increasing support for our first responders。enhancing aviation security and screening。these are folks who share their stories with me in letters and at town hall meetings。school boards and ’s why in my State of the Union address this year, I said that Congress should reform the No Child Left Behind law based on the same principles that have guided Race to the the goals behind No Child Left Behind were admirable, experience has taught us that the law has some serious flaws that are hurting our children instead of helping are being forced to teach to a test, while subjects like history and science are being squeezed in order to avoid having their schools labeled as failures, some states lowered their standards in a race to the problems have been obvious to parents and educators all over this country for for years, Congress has failed to fix now, I kids only get one shot at a decent they can’t afford to wait any , I announced that we’ll be giving states more flexibility to meet high standards for teaching and ’s time for us to let states, schools and teachers e up with innovative ways to give our children the skills they need to pete for the jobs of the will make a huge difference in the lives of students all across the , I was with Ricky Hall, the principal of a school in Worcester, single student who graduated from Ricci’s school in the last three years went on to because they didn’t meet the standards of No Child Left Behind, Ricci’s school was labeled as failing last will change because of what we did now on, we’ll be able to encourage the progress at schools like Ricci’ now on, people like John Becker, who teaches at one of the highestperforming middle schools in ., will be able to focus on teaching his 4th graders math in a way that improves their performance instead of just teaching to a like David Estrop from Ohio will be able to focus on improving teaching and learning in his district instead of spending all his time on bureaucratic mandates from Washington that don’t get isn’t just the right thing to do for our kids – it’s the right thing to do for our country, and our is time to put our teachers back on the is time to rebuild and modernize our it is time to raise our standards, up our game, and do everything it takes to prepare our children succeed in the global is the time to once again make our education system the envy of the world.第三篇：Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressSaturday, August 1st, 2009 Today, I’d like to talk with you about a subject that I know is on everyone’s mind, and that’s the state of our , we received a report on our Gross Domestic ’s a measure of our overall economic report showed that in the first few months of this year, the recession we faced when I