Statement by President Obama on Passage of Further Continuing Appropriations Amendments, 2011

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2011.  

I’m pleased that Democrats and Republicans in Congress came together and passed a plan that will cut spending and keep the government running for the next two weeks.  But we cannot keep doing business this way.  Living with the threat of a shutdown every few weeks is not responsible, and it puts our economic progress in jeopardy.  That’s why I’m calling on Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress to begin…