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Tonight, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx issued the following statement after President Obama’s State of the Union address.

“President Obama’s State of the Union address sounded very similar to speeches we have heard over the past three years.  We have heard many of these promises before.

“Our nation is in the midst of an economic crisis, which is due in large part to this Administration’s failed economic policies.  The President promised while peddling his stimulus package that it would create jobs and keep unemployment under 8 percent.  Instead unemployment continued to increase reaching double digits.  Since the President took office, our unemployment rate has been over 8 percent every month. President Obama has presided over the longest period of sustained high unemployment since the Great Depression and nearly half of all Americans are classified as poor or low-income. 

“The only way to get us out of this mess and put our economy back on the right track is to move forward on a path of cooperation.  I urge President Obama to work with Congress to advance the nearly 30 bipartisan jobs bills that remain stuck in the Democrat controlled Senate.

“When the President took office he promised to cut the job-killing deficit in half.  Instead the deficit has nearly doubled in the three years he has been in office.  We simply must stop spending money that we don’t have and burdening the next generation with a mountain of debt they will never be able to overcome.”

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