But it will only happen if we work together.
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However, Shimkus says he’ll support criminal-justice reform, something he says the president barely mentioned last night.
“And, of course, President Obama could take the much easier – but important – step of issuing the Executive Order requiring enhanced campaign finance disclosure by government contractors, which has been sitting on his desk unsigned for months”, Ryan concluded. “We just need to call them what they are – killers and fanatics who have to be rooted out, hunted down, and destroyed”, Obama said.
“That is the story ISIL [Islamic State] wants to tell”, Obama said.
The visit to Nebraska was only the second of his presidency, but it puts the president near voters in neighboring Iowa, where the first caucuses of the 2016 presidential race take place in just a few weeks. “We built a space programme nearly overnight, and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon”, Obama reminded his countrymen and members of the Congress. “We have to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around”.
“Each time, there have been those who told us to fear the future; who claimed we could slam the brakes on change, promising to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening to America under control”, Obama said in a jab at Trump. Assigned Vice President Joe Biden to lead a new push to fight cancer, building on a large increase in federal financing for the National Institutes of Health. And for this final one, I’m going to try to make it a little shorter.
“Look, anything’s possible. And I think, you know, we shouldn’t be complacent”.
But 15th District Congressman John Shimkus says Obama begins his last year in office with a more divided nation than when he started seven years ago.
(Cruz) “This was less a State of the Union than it was a state of denial”.
Two presidential candidates – Senators Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Bernie Sanders – attended the president’s State of the Union address.
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Obama is traveling to Republican states in the days following his yearly address to Congress to advance his message of reconciliation between the parties, a longstanding goal he acknowledged during his speech has gone unfulfilled.
