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Speaker Boehner Statement on the
State of the Union
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – House Speaker
John Boehner (R-OH) released this statement following tonight’s State
of the
Union address and Republican address to the nation:
“Four
years after the president
first addressed a joint session of Congress, Americans are still
asking, ‘where
are the jobs?’ Tonight,
he offered them
little more than more of the same ‘stimulus’ policies that have failed
to fix
our economy and put Americans back to work.
We cannot grow the middle class and
foster job creation by growing
government and raising taxes. Washington
has a spending problem that threatens the prosperity of every child,
every
family, and every small business in America.
The president had an opportunity to
offer a solution tonight, and he let
it slip by. We are
only weeks away from
the devastating consequences of the president’s sequester, and he
failed to
offer the cuts needed to replace it.
In
the last election, voters chose divided government which offers a
mandate only
to work together to find common ground.
The president, instead, appears to have
chosen a go-it-alone approach to
pursue his liberal agenda.
“Senator
Rubio rose to the occasion
tonight and presented a positive alternative to the American middle
class. His vision
for growth, opportunity, and
prosperity is rooted in the understanding that it is our people, not
our
government, that continues to give us confidence in America’s future.”
Chairman
Bennett on State of the
Union Address
COLUMBUS,
OH- Ohio Republican Party
Chairman Bob Bennett released the following statement after President
Obama's
State of the Union Address.
"The
President proved again
tonight that talk is not cheap. He continues to spend money that our
children
will have to pay back and now - for the lack of a reasoned plan - he
will give
us random layoffs of government employees in Dayton, Cleveland,
Mansfield and
other Ohio communities. All this because he won't accept a Republican
plan and neither
he nor his fellow Democrats in the Senate will pass a competing plan.
Democrat
slogans on more taxes won't solve America's spending problem."
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