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- President Obama and Vice President Biden speak at the Department of Transportation on transportation infrastructure projects in the economic stimulus plan. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, opens the conference with a review of current investments going towards transportation, leading to advancements and jobs. President Obama says it is safe to say the recovery plan is "coming in ahead of schedule and under budget."
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama addresses the National Urban League at their convention in New Orleans, LA. He recounts the struggle for equal rights and the reasons the Urban League was formed. Obama talks about equal opportunity, hard work, and achieving the American dream. He declares education is an economic issue and speaks about the need to change firearm laws to step-up background checks adding restrictions to keep mentally unbalanced individuals from buying weapons, all as part of an initiative to reduce all kinds of violence. His comments are made in the wake of a mass shooting in Aurora, CO.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan questions Howard Hughes.
- Date Issued:
- 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama speaks on the economic impact of the government shutdown during a visit to M. Luis Construction in Rockville, Maryland, a company which has grown and benefited from increased access to capital through the President's Small Business Jobs Act and other SBA programs. Obama talks about small business and highlights the impacts that Congress's inability to act on a shutdown and default would have on our economy and the nation's small businesses.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-10-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama speaks on the economy to members of The Business Council. Before going into his remarks, Obama says a few words on the tragic plane crash the night before in Buffalo, seeing it as a reminder of the fragility of life. Obama discusses the stimulus package, relating its funding to schools and its creation of jobs as aid to businesses.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-02-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack H. Obama speaks about the U.S. economy, invoking Theodore Roosevelt's "square deal" populism and challenging the Republican belief in trickle-down economic theory. Speaking in Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Roosevelt's speech, Obama says trickle-down speaks to individualism but "has never worked" and that the nation is at "a make-or-break moment for the middle class." He also promotes his economic priorities, including the extension and expansion of Social Security payroll tax cuts, and says a strong economy starts with education.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-12-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Eisenhower talks about Secretary of Agriculture Benson and the farm problem.
- Date Issued:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama speaks about the state of the economy. He criticizes Republicans in Congress for obstructionism and praises the American motion picture and television industry saying it continues to create thousands of jobs across the country and exports American culture. Held at the DreamWorks Animation Studios in Glendale, California.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-11-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement regarding his decision to remove the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord. Trump asserts that he cares deeply about the environment but says that the Paris Accord hurts American workers. Trump also claims that the agreement is not fair to the U.S. and that the U.S. will have the cleanest air and the cleanest water in the world without losing jobs.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Taft discusses labor and capital.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection