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Press Release Published: Sep 9, 2011

Issa Statement on President Obama’s Joint Session Address

WASHINGTON, DC – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement tonight regarding President Obama’s joint session address:

“Tonight, I had hoped that President Obama would offer a new approach to creating jobs and sparking economic growth that showed he had learned from past missteps. What I heard, however, sounded more like a second stimulus than a new approach.

“Listening to job creators around the country, it is clear that the key to recovery is not more government spending and public workers—the key is a renewed focus on private sector investment and expansion. The failed stimulus and its successor policies have proven that massive government deficit spending is not the solution—it is the problem.

“President Obama recently halted a job-killing EPA smog rule which he acknowledged would hinder recovery. Halting or revising other job killing regulations and reforming a tax system that harms job creation are areas where Congress and the President can and should seek common ground.

“Ultimately, Americans need solutions that help us compete against the world instead of those that attempt to pit one group of Americans against others.”

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