Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
April 3, 2010

All across America are good, decent folks who meet their obligations each and every day. They work hard. They support their families. They try to make an honest living the best they can. And this weekend, many are sitting down to pay the taxes they owe – not because it’s fun, but because it’s a fundamental responsibility of our citizenship.

SACRAMENTO -- A bill to raise the fee for qualifying a ballot measure for the first time in nearly seven decades has passed out of the Assembly.

The bill would raise the fee that was originally set in 1943 from $200 to $2,000 incrementally over a period of six years to bring it more in line with inflation.

I authored the bill because taxpayers were footing the bill for ballot measures by well-funded corporate interests and millionaires and for initiatives filed simply to make political and social statements with no intention of qualifying them for the ballot.

Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
April 3, 2010

This is a week of faithful celebration.

On Monday and Tuesday nights, Jewish families and friends in the United States and around the world gathered for a Seder to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt and the triumph of hope and perseverance over injustice and oppression. On Sunday, my family will join other Christians all over the world in marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Francine Busby and Tracy Emblem have a little over two months to distinguish themselves from each other to the average Democratic voter in the 50th Congressional District.

But it won’t be easy.

To the average left voter, they’re both Democrats, they both supported major bills like the health care package and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and they both believe Rep. Brian Bilbray is no longer in touch with the 50th Congressional District.

So why vote Busby over her primary opponent Emblem or vice versa?