In this year’s State of the Union address President Obama
will try to convince not only Congress but the American people that his final
two years in office will not be labeled as his lame-duck years. Trying to get
to an early start and get to work quickly the President has already hosted top
Republican officials to the White House heading up to the address.
The previous year State of the Union address
highlighted Higher Education and the White House College Opportunity Summit,
Tax Code Reform, an Energy strategy to bring more jobs and reduce American
dependency on oil, Immigration Reform and Equal Pay for Equal Work to close the
inequality of women’s pay to men.
In 2013 the President’s address had a different
tune returning troops from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the implementation
of the Affordable Care Act, the revisited idea of Tax Reform and jobs growth.
The address this year will have the President
highlighting the economic growth of the country under his administration.
According to US Bureau of Economic Analysis the country had an all time high
GDP Growth rate at 16.9 percent in 2014.
Making way for the President to outline economic proposals for Congress
and possible executive actions President Obama hinted at the end of 2014. Apart of that idea of growth could be applied
to the Auto Industry stability again with more manufacturing happening in
America.
Another point is
Education and Higher Education at that. The President has put education in the
State of the Union Address in years past this year has the same feeling. A week
ago the President unveiled little of what could be a proposal for Congress on
making community college first two years possibly free. It can be a spoiler as
to the President’s possible point on education in the address. The mantra Affordable College has been on the
Presidents Education Agenda going back to last years address. With the proposal
already announced the President would sure make the argument for the idea of
affordable College.
Now Immigration has been a hot button issue
between Congress and the White House for quite sometime. With the midterm
elections resulting in Republican control of the House and Senate one of the
top priorities for the Republicans is Immigration reform. Immigration reform being high up on the list
of the party in control the President will have to talk about that point in the
Address. WhiteHouse.gov finds that there are 11 million undocumented workers
and people living in the United States.
Homeland Security put out the department’s statistics for 2013 a total
of 662,483 undocumented individuals happened to be apprehended.
Another section
that would be brought back as another topic in the State of the Union address
the Presidents energy strategy first proposed in 2014. With the gas prices low
and energy having efficient cost for the time being look for the President to
highlight the accomplishment of energy cost to Americans in the address. It
will push the presidential agenda back to the renewed effort for alternative
forms of energy either from the air or high on the list natural gas.
The
Presidential State of the Union Address will contain proposals and points that
not only point out the administrations accomplishments in the past year but
what the administration want to get done going forward.
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