Fleming Responds to State of the Union Address

Statement

Congressman John Fleming, M.D. released the following statement after President Obama's State of the Union Address.

"Tonight, the President called for swift and immediate measures to speed up job creation and cut federal spending. I could not agree more. Yet, over the past two years, the President has championed legislation that has done just the opposite. From ObamaCare to the drilling moratorium to burdensome financial and environmental regulation, federal spending has exploded all the while our unemployment rate lingers near 10%. We know that when the President says investment he means more spending; when he says deficit reduction he means higher taxes; and when he declares himself a born-again regulatory reformer he means new regulations sky-rocketed under his administration.

"It is obviously time to take another approach. House Republicans are serious about cutting spending, lowering taxes, and scaling back burdensome regulation to get this economy back on track. In just the first two weeks in the Majority, we've voted to repeal ObamaCare, proposed $2.6 trillion in spending cuts and rolled back budgets in our personal offices to pre-2008 levels -- and that is just the beginning. Over the next few months, Republicans will continue to propose policies that get the government out of the way and allow the free-market to do what it does best -- create jobs."

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