President Barack Obama: Joint Session Of Congress

Obama Dept: Two domestic concerns towered above all others as President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night on the state of the union. One was stubbornly slow economic growth. The other was the long-term threat to prosperity posed by the structural mismatch between the federal government s projected revenue and its spending commitments. A successful second term for Mr. Obama will require both credible proposals for overcoming those related challenges and the determination to carry them through, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Somewhat more substantively, he called for a larger deficit-reduction deal built around loophole-closing tax reform and what he called modest reforms to Medicare and entitlements. In an apparent effort to rally Democrats to this cause, he called on those of us who care deeply about programs like Medicare to embrace reform and with Vice-President Joe Biden, left, and House Speaker John Boehner, right, behind him, U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress as he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday at the Capitol building in Washington. The president addressed the deficit and debt first, and at some length. This was fitting, giving that the most pressing piece of business facing Washington is what to do about the impending $85 billion across-the-board spending cut. He was forthright in declaring that this so-called sequester threatens the military as well as domestic programs. But his plan to avoid it basically repeated the offer of a balanced approach unspecified tax hikes and spending cuts which Republicans have already rejected. Related Items Articles Obama's climate change challenge meant for Canada's ears: ambassador (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.