Text of President Obama's Address to Congress

Prepared remarks of President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress delivered on Sept. 9, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse. As any American who is still looking for...Full Story