U.S. President Barack Obama is framed by his teleprompter while delivering remarks at the Costco wholesale store, repeating some of the same policy proposals from his State of the Union speech the night before January 29, 2014 in Lanham, Maryland. Obama is beginning a two-day, four-state tour to promote a raise in the minimum wage, immigration reform and other other policy ideas. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.