He is expected to sign it, and may tout it during tonight's prime-time address on the economy.

"This budget will be tough - it has to be," he said in an historic prime-time address on Sunday - the first of its kind in three decades.

Mr. Bush will open his nationally televised prime-time address with an update on the administration's campaign against terrorism and on national security, his strongest issue against the Democrats.

"Dueling Tax Cuts," Washington's newest drama, made its debut last Thursday with the President's prime-time address from the Oval Office.

Even as he worked on these varied and pressing issues, Bill scheduled a televised prime-time address to Congress on September 22 to outline the health care plan.

With the prime-time address, his first as President, Mr. Bush placed his own leadership on the line and raised the stakes on a domestic issue that raises potential pitfalls.

The reception she received suggested that Mr. Bush's prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday had done little to build political support for sending additional troops to Baghdad.

A spoof of Barack Obama's prime-time address, with Fred Armisen as Barack, and Maya Rudolph as Michelle.

The George W. Bush era had been an extraordinarily fractious time in public science, beginning with Bush's first prime-time address to the nation, in which he announced restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research.

Hawaii's Republican governor, Linda Lingle, made a rare prime-time address on Wednesday to warn of a $152 million deficit over the next two years.