presidential weekly address assessment iv xxvi mmxii a.a, a.b, a.c, b, c, d

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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate ReleaseJune 23, 2012

WEEKLY ADDRESS: Congress Must Act on

Transportation Bill and Student Loans

WASHINGTON, DCIn this weeks address, President Obama spoke about the urgent needfor Congress to act now on two common sense measures to help hardworking middle class

families. Unless Congress takes action in the next week, thousands of workers will be sent homefrom their jobs and millions of students will see their interest rates double. At a time whenhundreds of thousands of construction workers are eager to get back on the job, it makes nosense to let transportation funding run out. And at a time when a college education has neverbeen more important to finding a good job, it makes no sense to hit 7.4 million students with theequivalent of a $1,000 tax. Its not too late, but time is running out for Republicans andDemocrats to come together on these common sense measures to help our nation recover fromthe worst recession since the Great Depression.

Remarks of President Barack Obama

Weekly Address

Washington, DCJune 23, 2012

Over the past three years, weve been clawing our way back from the worst economic crisis ofour lifetimes. And we know it will take longer than any of us would like to fully recover all thejobs and savings that have been lost. But there are things we can doright nowto help putpeople back to work and make life a little easier for middle-class families.

For months, Ive been pushing Congress to help us along by passing common-sense policies thatwould make a difference. Democrats and Republicans have already done some important worktogetherlike passing a tax cut thats allowing working Americans to keep more of their

paycheck every week. But Congress has refused to act on most of the other ideas in my jobsplan that economists say could put a million more Americans back to work.

Theres no excuse for inaction. Right now, we are seven days away from thousands of Americanworkers having to walk off the job because Congress hasnt passed a transportation bill. We areeight days away from nearly seven and a half million students seeing their loan rates doublebecause Congress hasnt acted to stop it.


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This makes no sense. We know that one of the most important things we can do for oureconomy is to make sure that all Americans get the best education possible. Right now, theunemployment rate for Americans with a college degree or more is about half the nationalaverage. Their incomes are twice as high as those who dont have a high school diploma. So, ifwe know that a higher education is the clearest path to the middle class, why would we make it

harder to achieve?

So much of America needs to be repaired right now. Bridges are deteriorating after years ofneglect. Highways are choked with congestion. Transportation delays cost Americans andbusinesses billions of dollars every year. And there are hundreds of thousands of constructionworkers who have never been more eager to get back on the job. So why would we let ourtransportation funding run out? This is a time when we should be doing everything in our powerDemocrats and Republicansto keep this recovery moving forward.

My Administration is doing its part. On Friday, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHoodannounced $500 million in competitive grants for states and communities that will create

construction jobs on projects like road repair and port renovation. And thats an important step,but we cant do it all on our own.

The Senate did their part. They passed a bipartisan transportation bill back in March. It had thesupport of 52 Democrats and 22 Republicans.

Now, its up to the House to follow suit; to put aside partisan posturing, end the gridlock, and dowhats right for the American people.

Its not lost on any of us that this is an election year. But weve got responsibilities that arebigger than an election. We answer to the American people, and they are demanding

action. Lets make it easier for students to stay in college. Lets keep construction workersrebuilding our roads and bridges. And lets tell Congress to do their job. Tell them its time totake steps that we know will create jobs now and help sustain our economy for years to come.


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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate ReleaseJune 23, 2012

WEEKLY ADDRESS: Congress Must Act on

Transportation Bill and Student Loans

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'sek-"ter-, esp Brit'se-k(r)-tr\ n, pl-taries [ME secretarie,

fr. ML secretarius, confidential employee, secretary, fr. L

secretum secret, fr. neut. ofsecretus] (15c)

1: one employed to handle correspondence and manage

routine and detail work for a superior

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responsible for its records and correspondence[ Old English wice < Germanic, "series,succession"]

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America and continued to use after it had died out in Britain. Its use

was soon noticed by British visitors and somewhat later by the New

England literati, who considered it a bit provincial. It was flatly

declared wrong in 1870 by a popular commentator, who based his

objection on etymology. A later scholar showed that the

commentator was ignorant of Old English and thus unsound in his

objection, but by then it was too late, as the condemnation had

been picked up by many other commentators. Although a

surprising number of critics still voice objections, loan is entirelystandard as a verb. You should note that it is used only literally;

[14th century. Directly or via French

transporter< Latin transportare

"carry across" < portare "carry"]


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WASHINGTON, DCIn this weeks address, President Obama spoke about the urgent needfor Congress to act now on two common sense measures to help hardworking middle classfamilies. Unless Congress takes action in the next week, thousands of workers will be sent homefrom their jobs and millions of students will see their interest rates double. At a time whenhundreds of thousands of construction workers are eager to get back on the job, it makes no

sense to let transportation funding run out. And at a time when a college education has neverbeen more important to finding a good job, it makes no sense to hit 7.4 million students with theequivalent of a $1,000 tax. Its not too late, but time is running out for Republicans andDemocrats to come together on these common sense measures to help our nation recover fromthe worst recession since the Great Depression.

Remarks of President Barack Obama

Weekly Address

Washington, DC

June 23, 2012

Over the past three years, weve been clawing our way back from the worst economic crisisofour lifetimes. And we know it will take longer than any of us would like to fully recover all the

jobs and savings that have been lost. But there are things we can doright nowto help putpeople back to work and make life a little easier for middle-class families.

For months, Ive been pushing Congress to help us along by passing common-sense policies thatwould make a difference. Democrats and Republicans have already done some important worktogetherlike passing a tax cut thats allowing working Americans to keep more of theirpaycheck every week. But Congress has refused to act on most of the other ideas in my jobsplan that economists say could put a million more Americans back to work.

Theres no excuse for inaction. Right now, we are seven days away from thousands of Americanworkers having to walk off the job because Congress hasnt passed a transportation bill. We areeight days away from nearly seven and a half million students seeing their loan rates doublebecause Congress hasnt acted to stop it.

This makes no sense. We know that one of the most important things we can do for oureconomy is to make sure that all Americans get the best education possible. Right now, theunemployment rate for Americans with a college degree or more is about half the national


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average. Their incomes are twice as high as those who dont have a high school diploma. So, ifwe know that a higher education is the clearest path to the middle class, why would we make itharder to achieve?

So much of America needs to be repaired right now. Bridges are deteriorating after years of

neglect. Highways are choked with congestion. Transportation delays cost Americans andbusinesses billions of dollars every year. And there are hundreds of thousands of constructionworkers who have never been more eager to get back on the job. So why would we let ourtransportation funding run out? This is a time when we should be doing everything in our powerDemocrats and Republicansto keep this recovery moving forward.

My Administration is doing its part. On Friday, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHoodannounced $500 million in competitive grants for states and communities that will createconstruction jobs on projects like road repair and port renovation. And thats an important step,but we cant do it all on our own.

The Senate did their part. They passed a bipartisan transportation bill back in March. It had thesupport of 52 Democrats and 22 Republicans.

Now, its up to the House to follow suit; to put aside partisan posturing, end the gridlock, and dowhats right for the American people.

Its not lost on any of us that this is an election year. But weve got responsibilities that arebigger than an election. We answer to the American people, and they are demandingaction. Lets make it easier for students to stay in college. Lets keep construction workersrebuilding our roads and bridges. And lets tell Congress to do their job. Tell them its time totake steps that we know will create jobs now and help sustain our economy for years to come.

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