Issa Video Statement on President's State of the Union Address

Statement

Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released the following video statement on President Obama's State of the Union Address.

"Tonight the President laid out his vision to once again bypass Congress to use executive orders to run the country and to legislate from the Oval Office," Chairman Issa said. "This isn't the American way, courts have not supported his past attempts, and he only does damage to the American people's confidence in government when he doesn't work with Congress to pass real reforms -- especially on areas like the NSA and the abuses of the IRS and so on, where his administration has overseen abuses of personal liberties."

Issa continued, "Americans always excel when government respects their rights to liberty and their right to do what they believe is best, to strive to succeed, to fail at times, to get up and strive again. Because the American dream is not about a guarantee, it's about the guaranteed rights to succeed or fail on our own merits. That's where job creation comes from, that's where Americans want to be, and that's where the President failed to be tonight."

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