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ply 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。not on the next election but on the next is what we can do, and that is what we must do when we e together for this bipartisan health care meeting next you, and have a great weekend.第二篇:美國總統奧巴馬每周電臺演講2011obm0924【美國總統電臺演說】20110924 Over the last few weeks, I’ve been making the case that we need to act now on the American Jobs Act, so we can put folks back to work and start building an economy that lasts into the is an essential part of this economic is an undeniable fact that countries who outeducate us today will outpete us will hire wherever the highlyskilled, highlytrained workers are today, our students are sliding against their peers around the , our kids trail too many other countries in math, science, and many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high we’ve fallen to 16th in the proportion of our young people with a college degree, even though we know that sixty percent of new jobs in the ing decade will require more than a high school this means is that if we’re serious about building an economy that lasts – an economy in which hard work pays off with the opportunity for solid middle class jobs – we had better be serious about have to pick up our game and raise our a nation, we have an obligation to make sure that all children have the resources they need to learn – quality schools, good teachers, the latest textbooks and the right ’s why the jobs bill I sent to Congress would put tens of thousands of teachers back to work across the country, and modernize at least 35,000 39。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 highestpe