Obama Praises Senate Deal in Weekly Radio Speech

President Obama emphasized the need for Congress to quickly pass the stimulus package during his weekly radio address Saturday.

Obama praised the compromise reached in the Senate late last night, calling it an appropriate response to the economic woes in the U.S.

“In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face,” the president said. “That was, after all, what last November’s election was all about.”

Obama also launched a few more partisan shots at Republicans: “We can’t expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place.”

Watch a video of the address below: