Johnson Comments on President's State of the Union Address

Statement

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, issued this statement Tuesday following President Obama's final State of the Union Address:

"I have always preferred to start with areas of agreement. So when the president spoke of regulatory reform and I heard the strong bipartisan support for it, it gave me some hope. With President Obama throwing his support toward some measure of regulatory reform and Congress already working on a bipartisan set of reforms, we may accomplish what will be a pillar of the sort of reform we need to get our economy at last to grow in a robust fashion.

"Far less encouraging was the president's assessment of national security. I realize our enemies won't frontally assault us. But they will test us over the next 12 months -- as a result of the president's strategy of peace through withdrawal. His nuclear agreement with Iran has modified that country's behavior -- for the worse, as they lob missiles near the USS Truman and detain American sailors. I'm highly concerned by his denial of reality and by his failure to lay out a strategy to accomplish the goal he laid out more than a year ago, to defeat ISIS. We do not need to be the world's policeman, but the world hungers for American leadership. President Obama gave no sign he will begin to show it."

Sen. Johnson also offered additional audio comments, on regulatory reform, national security and the president's comments on Social Security.

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