House Speaker John Boehner: President Barack Obama

Obama Dept: Looking to use momentum from his re-election victory last November, Obama vowed to turn much of his attention toward reducing the country's 7.9 per cent unemployment rate, according to Vancouver Sun. Even as Obama spoke, House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, accused him of offering "little more than the same stimulus policies that have failed to fix our economy and put Americans back to work." President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress to back his plans to create middleclass jobs on Tuesday in a State of the Union speech that put a renewed focus on the U.S. economy and sought support for overhauling gun and immigration laws. "It is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many, and not just the few," he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.