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Administration
President
Barack
Obama
Vice
President
Joe
Biden
First
Lady
Michelle
Obama
Dr.
Jill
Biden
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ADDITIONAL
ISSUES
Faith
In
June
of
2006,
then-Senator
Obama
delivered
what
was
called
the
most
important
speech
on
religion
and
politics
in
40
years.
Speaking
before
an
evangelical
audience,
then-Senator
Obama
candidly
discussed
his
own
religious
conversion
and
doubts,
and
the
need
for
a
deeper,
more
substantive
discussion
about
the
role
of
faith
in
American
life.
Senator
Obama
also
laid
down
principles
for
how
to
discuss
faith
in
a
pluralistic
society,
including
the
need
for
religious
people
to
translate
their
concerns
into
universal,
rather
than
religion-specific,
values
during
public
debate.
In
December
2006,
President
Obama
discussed
the
importance
of
faith
in
the
global
battle
against
AIDS.
Arts
Our
nation's
creativity
has
filled
the
world's
libraries,
museums,
recital
halls,
movie
houses,
and
marketplaces
with
works
of
genius.
The
arts
embody
the
American
spirit
of
self-definition.
As
the
author
of
two
best-selling
books
—
Dreams
from
My
Father
and
The
Audacity
of
Hope
—
President
Obama
uniquely
appreciates
the
role
and
value
of
creative
expression.
Child
Advocacy
President
Obama
and
Vice
President
Biden
are
committed
advocates
for
children.
They
will
make
sure
that
every
child
has
health
insurance,
expand
educational
opportunities
for
low-income
children,
extend
resources
for
low-income
families,
support
and
supplement
our
struggling
foster
care
system,
and
protect
children
from
violence
and
neglect.
Katrina
President
Obama
will
keep
the
broken
promises
made by President Bush
to
rebuild
New
Orleans
and
the
Gulf
Coast.
He
and
Vice
President
Biden
will
take
steps
to
ensure
that
the
federal
government
will
never
again
allow
such
catastrophic
failures
in
emergency
planning
and
response
to
occur.
President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina. Citing the Bush Administration's "unconscionable ineptitude" in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama
Then-Senator Obama
introduced
legislation
requiring
disaster
planners
to
take
into
account
the
specific
needs
of
low-income
hurricane
victims.
Obama
visited
thousands
of
Hurricane
survivors
in
the
Houston
Convention
Center
and
later
took
three
more
trips
to
the
region.
He
worked
with
members
of
the
Congressional
Black
Caucus
to
introduce
legislation
to
address
the
immediate
income,
employment,
business,
and
housing
needs
of
Gulf
Coast
communities.
President
Barack
Obama
will
partner
with
the
people
of
the
Gulf
Coast
to
rebuild
now,
stronger
than
ever.
Science
In
the
past,
government
funding
for
scientific
research
has
yielded
innovations
that
have
improved
the
landscape
of
American
life
—
technologies
like
the
Internet,
digital
photography,
bar
codes,
Global
Positioning
System
technology,
laser
surgery,
and
chemotherapy.
At
one
time,
educational
competition
with
the
Soviets
fostered
the
creativity
that
put
a
man
on
the
moon.
Today,
we
face
a
new
set
of
challenges,
including
energy
security,
HIV/AIDS,
and
climate
change.
Yet,
the
United
States
is
losing
its
scientific
dominance.
Among
industrialized
nations,
our
country's
scores
on
international
science
and
math
tests
rank
in
the
bottom
third
and
bottom
fifth,
respectively.
Over
the
last
three
decades,
federal
funding
for
the
physical,
mathematical,
and
engineering
sciences
has
declined
at
a
time
when
other
countries
are
substantially
increasing
their
own
research
budgets.
President
Obama
and
Vice
President
Biden
believe
federally
funded
scientific
research
should
play
an
important
role
in
advancing
science
and
technology
in
the
classroom
and
in
the
lab.
Sportsmen
President
Obama
did
not
grow
up
hunting
and
fishing,
but
he
recognizes
the
great
conservation
legacy
of
America's
hunters
and
anglers
and
has
great
respect
for
the
passion
that
hunters
and
anglers
have
for
their
sports.
Were
it
not
for
America's
hunters
and
anglers,
including
the
great
icons
like
Theodore
Roosevelt
and
Aldo
Leopold,
our
nation
would
not
have
the
tradition
of
sound
game
management,
a
system
of
ethical,
science-based
game
laws
and
an
extensive
public
lands
estate
on
which
to
pursue
the
sport.
The
President
and
Vice
President
recognize
that
we
must
forge
a
broad
coalition
if
we
are
to
address
the
great
conservation
challenges
we
face.
America's
hunters
and
anglers
are
a
key
constituency
that
must
take
an
active
role
and
have
a
powerful
voice
in
this
coalition.
Transportation
As
our
society
becomes
more
mobile
and
interconnected,
the
need
for
21st-century
transportation
networks
has
never
been
greater.
However,
too
many
of
our
nation's
railways,
highways,
bridges,
airports,
and
neighborhood
streets
are
slowly
decaying
due
to
lack
of
investment
and
strategic
long-term
planning.
President
Obama
and
Vice
President
Biden
believe
that
America's
long-term
competitiveness
depends
on
the
stability
of
our
critical
infrastructure.
They
will
make
strengthening
our
transportation
systems,
including
our
roads
and
bridges,
a
top
priority.
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