By Antonio D. French
Filed Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 9:25 PM
Congressman Lacy Clay has issued the following statement in response to President George W. Bush's State of the Union address delivered a short time ago: Labels: Announcements, Congress
"Tonight, the President reviewed his long list of broken promises and confirmed that he is still disconnected from what really matters to the American people. A year ago, he promised that as the Iraqi government stood up, the U.S. would stand down. Since he made that statement, 879 more brave Americans have been killed in support of Mr. Bush’s failed policy, for a total of 3,059 U.S. soldiers killed in action. The very last thing that we should be doing now is to send 21,000 more U.S. troops into the middle of a civil war." 
"Next week, I will cosponsor a resolution that will advise the President that the House of Representatives strongly opposes his plan to escalate this tragic and unnecessary war. Mr. Bush’s continuing refusal to face reality in Iraq is depleting our military strength and weakening our efforts to fight the very real war against terrorism. We don’t need to escalate this war… we need to end it."
"The President also spoke a great deal about health care. But unfortunately, his health care proposal will do little or nothing for most of the 47 million Americans who are uninsured. It's like offering a band-aid to a patient who is bleeding to death. The obvious and most cost-effective way to achieve universal coverage is to expand Medicare to cover the uninsured, which is exactly what I have proposed."
"In the first 100 hours of the new Congress, the U.S. House, with bipartisan support, has voted to raise the minimum wage, expand federal funding for stem cell research, implement the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission, require negotiation of lower prescription drug costs for seniors, make college loans more affordable, and end the multi-billion dollar giveaways to big oil and gas companies. That is a great beginning."
"In the coming year, I hope that the President will truly put the state of our union first, and work with us to find common ground on key issues like immigration, alternative energy and conservation, restoring fiscal responsibility, increasing home ownership and ending unfair trade policies that hurt American workers."
1 Comments:
Why even publish what Lacy Clay has to say. We already know that the man who can't put a coherent sentence together to save his life, thinks he is smarter then everyone else on the issues. He is a fool to think universal health care is good for America. He thinks we have to leave Irag right now no matter what but he doesn't think of the severe consequences for doing that. He may possibly be the most arrogant, opinionated, and yet unitelligent elected U.S. Representative we have ever seen. But thanks Lacy for your anti-America platform.
1/25/2007 9:39 AM
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