Barack Obama, 44th President, began his term on a theme of hope. The Obama administration began to set a tone of bipartisan politics, with Barack Obama inviting Republicans to the White House. Obama met with Republican Senators and Congressmen. Republicans were even appointed to the cabinet of President Barack Obama. However, with the first major test on Capital Hill, President Obama has found that bipartisan approaches will not change reality; the Republican Party remains opposed to the Obama agenda, especially regarding the economy. In the first vote on the Obama stimulus package in the House of Representatives, every single Republican congressman, without exception, voted in opposition. Now that the Senate will be voting on Barack Obama’s economic plan, President Obama has changed his tone. He is now being competitive and combatant in fighting for his stimulus package. In media appearances, before Democratic Party leaders and in his Saturday radio and Internet broadcast, he has sharply attacked the GOP for standing in the way of his economic emergency legislation. With data on the U.S. economy getting worse as the recession deepens, President Barack Obama in now more determined than ever to get his stimulus spending bill passed by Congress, and is prepared to turn up the heat on the Republican Party.