【正文】 momentum need to e together, Democrats and Republicans, around a longterm budget that sacrifices wasteful spending without sacrificing the jobcreating investments in our administration has already put forward specific cuts that meet congressional Republicans I39。m prepared to do we39。ll only finish the job together – by sitting at the same table, working out our differences, and finding mon ’s why I39。ve asked Vice President Biden and members of my Administration to meet with leaders of Congress going our fiscal house in order can39。t just be something we use as cover to do away with things we dislike it can39。t just be about how much we 39。s got to be about how we cut and how we 39。ve got to be smart about if we cut back on the kids I39。ve met here and their education, for example, we39。d be risking the future of an entire generation of there39。s nothing responsible about 39。ve got to e together to put America back on a fiscally sustainable course – and make sure that when it es to the economy of the 21st century, our children and our country are betterprepared than anyone else in the world to take it future depends on 39。s not a Democratic or a Republican challenge – that’s an American I’m confident it39。s one we39。ll for 大耳朵英語20110312 22:30:04【打印】WEEKLY ADDRESS: Women39。s History Month Highlights the President39。s Resolve to Pass the Paycheck Fairness ActMarch is Women’s History Month, a time not only to celebrate the progress that women have made, but also the women throughout our history who have made that progress inspiring American who es to mind is Eleanor 1961, the former First Lady was unhappy about the lack of women in government, so she marched up to President Kennedy and handed him a threepage list of women who were qualified for top posts in his led the President to select as the head of a new mission to look at the status of women in America, and the unfairness they routinely faced in their she passed away before the mission could finish its work, the report they released spurred action across the helped galvanize a movement led by women that would help make our society a more equal ’s been almost fifty years since the Roosevelt mission published its findings ? and there have been few similar efforts by the government in the decades that ’s why, last week, here at the White House, we released a new prehensive report on the status of women in the spirit on the one that was released half a century was a lot of positive news about the strides we’ve made, even in recent example, women have caught up with men in seeking higher fact, women today are more likely than men to attend and graduate from , there are also reminders of how much work remains to be are still more likely to live in poverty in this education, there are areas like math and engineering where women are vastly outnumbered by their male is especially troubling, for we know that to pete with nations around the world, these are the fields in which we need to harness the talents of all our ’s how we’ll win the , today, women still earn on average only about 75 cents for every dollar a man ’s a huge at a time when folks across this country are struggling to make ends meet ? and many families are just trying to get by on one paycheck after a job loss ? it’s a reminder that achieving equal pay for equal work isn’t just a women’s ’s a family one of my first acts as President, I signed a law so that women who’ve been discriminated against in their salaries could have their day in court to make it there are steps we should take to prevent that from happening in the first ’s why I was so disappointed when an important bill to give women more power to stop pay disparities ? the Paycheck Fairness Act ? was blocked by just two votes in the that’s why I’m going to keep up the fight to pass the reforms in that equality and opportunity for women isn’t just important to me as ’s something I care about deeply as the father of two daughters who wants to see his girls grow up in a world where there are no limits to what they can I’ve traveled across the country, visiting schools and meeting young people, I’ve seen so many girls passionate about science and other subjects that were traditionally not as open to even held a science fair at the White House, where I met a young woman named Amy was only 16 years old, but she was actually working on a treatment for never thought, “Science isn’t for me.” She never thought, “Girls can’t do that.” She was just interested in solving a because someone was interested in giving her a chance, she has the potential to improve tells me how far we’ve it also tells me we have to work even harder to close the gaps that still exist, and to uphold that simple American ideal: we are all equal and deserving of the chance to pursue our own version of ’s what Eleanor Roosevelt was striving toward half a century ’s why this report matters that’s why, on behalf of all our daughters and our sons, we’ve got to keep making progress in the years for 大耳朵英語20110319 23:50:01【打印】The President Announces Economic Lessons to be Learned from Countries on the Latin America Trip Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address on Latin America Saturday, March 19, 2011 Washington, DCIn recent days, we’ve seen turmoil and tragedy around the world, from change in the Middle East and North Africa to the earthquake and tsunami in I said on Friday, we will work with our partners in the region to protect innocent civilians in Libya and hold the Gaddafi regime we will continue to stand with the people of Japan in their greatest hour of we respond to these immediate crises abroad, we also will not let up in our efforts to tackle the pressing, ongoing challenges facing our country, including accelerating economic ’s why, over the weekend, I’ll be in Latin of the main reasons for my trip is to strengthen economic partnerships abroad so that we create good jobs at America is