Barack Obama

Obama: Obama spoke to a Congress controlled in both houses by opposition Republicans for the first time in his presidency. But the policies the president called for suggested that he had no plans to curtail his own agenda in favour of Republican priorities, according to CTV. The 2016 presidential election loomed over Obama next-to-last State of the Union address, a speech to Congress and a national television audience focussing on his bid to use tax policy to ease the economic woes of beleaguered low-income Americans and the country shrinking middle class and - U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday it was time for Americans to "turn the page" on years of economic troubles, terrorism and lengthy wars, using his sixth State of the Union speech to outline new tax policies that would hit the wealthiest Americans and give breaks to the middle class. "It now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next fifteen years, and for decades to come," Obama said. Full speech: Barack Obama State of the Union address (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.