奧巴馬國情諮文側重收入不均和移民改革
U.S. President Barack Obama will address the huge income gap between the poorest and wealthiest Americans when he delivers the annual State of the Union address Tuesday night before a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
The president has been unsuccessful in urging lawmakers to approve an increase in the U.S. minimum wage rate since raising the issue in last year's State of the Union speech. Mr. Obama will repeat the call in Tuesday's speech, and will announce plans to sign an executive order increasing the minimum wage for employees of companies signing new contracts with the federal government.
The order -- which will increase contractors' minimum wages from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour -- is one of the many Mr. Obama plans to issue this year in his strategy to enact his priorities without seeking approval of Congress, which is bitterly divided between a Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-led Senate.
Mr. Obama will also urge the full Congress to pass an immigration reform measure that passed in the Senate last year. The bill stalled in the House under intense opposition from conservative lawmakers, but there are signs of growing support for the bill among House Republican leaders.美國總統奧巴馬星期二晚間在美國國會發表國情諮文演說時，將談到最富裕的美國人與最貧窮的美國人之間不斷擴大的收入差距。
奧巴馬總統在去年的國情諮文中就提到了這一問題，但他一直無法說服議員通過提高美國最低工資的法案。奧巴馬在星期二的演說中將重新發出這一呼籲，他還將宣佈，他計劃簽署一道行政令，規定凡是與聯邦政府簽訂新合同的公司，都必須提高僱員的最低工資。
這項行政令將把政府承包商員工的最低工資從目前的每小時7.25美元增加到10.10美元。這是奧巴馬今年計劃頒佈的多項行政令之一。共和黨人主控的衆議院和民主黨人主控的參議院相爭不下。爲了落實他的施政重點，奧巴馬今年打算採取的策略是直接下達行政令而不必尋求國會批准。
奧巴馬還將敦促國會全院通過參議院已在去年批准的移民改革法案。那項法案在衆議院擱淺，保守派議員強烈反對這項議案。不過有跡象顯示，衆院共和黨領導層中間對這項議案的支持有所增加。
