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Bryan Shettig & Shaina Zucker
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Obama urges ongress to pass stimulus bill
WASHINGTON (AP)
President Barack Obama, pres-
suring lawmakers to urgently
approve a massive economic
recovery bill, criticized
Republicans who have balked
at the legislation Monday night
and said, "I can't afford to see
Congress play the usual polit-
ical games."
Obama used the first prime-
time news conference of his
presidency to warn that a
failure to act swiftly and boldly
"could turn a crisis into a catas-
trophe."
With the nation falling deeper
into a long and painful reces-
sion, Obama defended his
program against Republican
criticism that it is loaded with
pork-barrel spending and will
not create jobs.
"The plan is not perfect," the
president said. "No plan is. I can't
tell you for sure that everything
in this plan will work exactly
as we hope, but I can tell you
with complete confidence that
a failure to act will only deepen
this crisis as well as the pain felt
by millions of Americans."
Obama addressed the nation
from the East Room of the White
House in a news conference that
lasted almost exactly one hour.
He hit repeatedly at the themes
he has emphasized in recent
weeks, including at a town hall
meeting to promote his plan
earlier in the day in Elkhart,
Ind.
When the stimulus bill
passed the House last month,
not a single Republican voted
for it. On Monday an $838 billion
version of the legislation cleared
a crucial test vote in the Senate
by a 61-36 margin, with all
but three Republican senators
opposing it.
Obama said he had made
a deliberate effort to reach
out to the GOP, putting three
Republicans into his Cabinet,
and "as I continue to make these
overtures, over time, hopefully
that will be reciprocated."
"So my bottom line when it
comes to the recovery package
is: send me a bill that creates or
saves 4 million jobs."
Obama acknowledged the
difficulty of mending political
divisions between Republicans
and Democrats.
"Old habits are hard to break,"
he said. "We're coming off an
election, and people sort of want
to test the limits of what they can
get. There's a lot of jockeying
in this town and who's up and
who's down, testing for the next
election."
Obama said the federal
government was the only power
that could save the nation at
a time of crisis, with huge
spending outlays and tax cuts.
"At this particular moment,
with the private sector so weak-
ened by this recession, the
federal government is the only
entity left with the resources to
jolt our economy back to life,"
he said.
Rejecting criticism that the
emphasis on federal action was
too great, he said that 90 percent
of the jobs created by the plan
would be in the private sector,
rebuilding crumbling roads,
bridges and other aging infra-
structure.
"The plan that ultimately
emerges from Congress must
be big enough and bold enough
to meet the size of the economic
challenge we face right now,"
Obama said.
Again and again, he stressed
that the economy is in dire
straits.
"This is not your ordinary,
run of the mill recession," he
said. Obama said the United
States aims to avoid the kind
of economic pain that Japan
endured in the 1990s — the
"lost decade" when that nation
showed no economic growth.
"My bottom line is to make
sure that we are saving or
creating4 million jobs," he said,
and that homeowners facing
foreclosure receive some relief.
Department awaits regents approval
Photo Courtesy MCT
President Obama rebuked Republicans on Monday for criticizing his stimulus
plan. Obama said not passing the plan "could turn a crisis into a catastrophe."
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distinct departments, Land
said there will be no major
changes in the core curric-
ulum, and the transition
won't affect students.
"It's been a tremendous
benefit to be a department
because of the support the
department receives from the
College of Arts and Sciences,"
Land said.
The department is
nationally recognized, and
becoming its own school
appears the next logical step,
said Jacob Cigainero, jour-
nalism alumnus.
"As the department begins
to stand on its own two feet
as a school, I think a more
diverse student population
and faculty will be drawn
to NT, raising the profile of
our journalism program and
subsequently North Texas,"
he said in an e-mail.
The switch from depart-
ment to school will allow a
competitive edge for external
resources like grants and
will strengthen the national
perception of NT's journalism
program, Land said.
Annie Tran, a journalism
senior, said she thinks the
department will do well
as a school because of the
strength of the program and
its high recognition in the
state, she said.
The department's current
budget of about $1.53 million,
housed under the College of
Arts and Sciences, will be
transferred to the school of
journalism for fiscal year
2010, Land said. Land expects
the costs of the school to
increase by about $1.9 million
in a five-year period, mostly
to add new personnel, he
said.
Even with the changes,
Land said the program would
maintain its focus on what
he calls "the capital J of
Journalism."
"Our job is to train students
to gather information in a
quest of accuracy, fairness
and truth, rooted in ethical
practices," he said.
larification
The final quote in the
story "Recession layoffs
could threaten NT staff,
faculty members" published
on Feb. 4, was taken out of
context. Dan Naegeli, the
director of the Career Center,
was advising students, not
faculty or staff, to begin
looking for opportunities
in other fields. The Career
Center does not provide
services to faculty and staff,
only students.
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