President Barack Obama, at podium, stands with his economic team as he speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb, 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.
Copies of President Obama's budget for fiscal 2010 are seen on a table to be picked-up at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009.
President Barack Obama speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. Vice President Joe Biden is at left, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is at center.
Budget Director Peter Orszag, right, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, center, look on as President Barack Obama speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb, 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.
President Barack Obama, flanked by Budget Director Peter Orszag, right, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.
President Barack Obama speaks about his fiscal 2010 federal budget, Thursday, Feb, 26, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.
President Barack Obama, center, and his economic team leave the podium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, after speaking about his fiscal 2010 federal budget. From left are: Lawrence Summers, Christina Romer, Joe Biden, the president, Timothy Geithner, Peter Orszag and Melody Barnes.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., left, and House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., right, hold up their copies of the fiscal 2010 federal budget after receiving them, Thursday, Feb, 26, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Humberto Sanchez, from Congress Daily, reads over a copy of President Obama's first budget for fiscal 2010 at the U.S .Government Printing Office in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009.
Copies of President Obama's first budget for fiscal 2010 are seen at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009.