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Jordan Responds to State of the Union Address

January 29, 2014
Congressman Jordan (R-Urbana) released the following statement in response to President Obama's State of the Union Address. 

"President Obama missed a great opportunity to humbly engage both Congress and the American people with new ideas about how to turn our economy around.

Instead, he went back to the same old arrogant Washington playbook that for the past five years has failed to help create the jobs families in Ohio need.

Americans are reluctant to believe a new round of promises from a President and an administration that has not been forthcoming about issues ranging from job creation, to the unfair targeting of Americans by the IRS, to health care, to the tragic loss of life in Benghazi.

Even worse, now the President has signaled that rather than working with Republicans on bipartisan solutions, he plans to ‘go around' Congress and push his agenda through executive orders, which is all the more reason why the American people need to stand up and make their voices heard in order to bring more balance of power to Washington."