# 2013-09-21 President Obama's Weekly Address

President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "'Congress Must Act Now to Pass a Budget and Raise the Debt Ceiling" from September 21, 2013. Original description of the speech: "In his weekly address, President Obama says the economy is making progress five years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, but to avoid another crisis, Congress must meet two deadlines in the coming weeks: pass a budget by the end of the month to keep the government open, and raise the debt ceiling so America can pay its bills. Congress should vote to do these now, so that we can keep creating new jobs and expanding opportunity for the middle class."

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 5 min
- By: The White House
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-09-21_President_Obama%27s_Weekly_Address.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: The White House
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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