“With a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy production we [the United States] have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth,” Obama is announced to say.
President Obama will also say that both middle-class economics and expanding opportunity works, adding that his administration’s “policies will continue to work, as long as politics don’t get in the way.”
The Republican majority from the US House and Senate have fiercely opposed a number of President Obama’s initiatives. Top Republican leaders have recently opposed President Obama’s $235 billion additional tax proposal, and his administration’s policy towards the Keystone XL Pipeline and immigration reform.
Since the newly elected 114th US Congress resumed session in January, Republican leaders have accused President Obama of not caring about the American people after his administration threated to veto three of their party’s key jobs bills, including construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, restoring the 40 hour work week and one that would help small businesses hire more US veterans.
During President Obama’s six years in office, he has vetoed only two pieces of legislation, but has also held majority support in both houses of Congress during his first term, and a Democratic majority in the Senate during his first two years of his second term.
The upcoming congressional work session, following Tuesday’s State of the Union address will through the late-February district working session. The legislative agenda will be set by House and Senate Republicans, but also informed by initiatives introduced by President Obama in his Tuesday address.
