Politics

Day 17: Obama Gets More Aggressive On Stimulus

By Brian Montopoli

February 5, 2009 / 7:30 PM EST / CBS News

(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

On his seventeenth day on office, President Obama took a more aggressive tone on the stimulus package, saying "the time for talk is over."

He took steps to increase the energy efficiency of household appliances, arguing in doing so that it "will save consumers money, this will spur innovation, and this will conserve tremendous amounts of energy."

And he said that religion should not be a tool for division as he announced the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Watch CBS Evening News reporting on the president's day below.