Levin Statement on President Obama's State of the Union
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
WASHINGTON – Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., made the following statement regarding President Obama’s State of the Union address this evening:
“The president delivered a powerful, effective and unifying speech that was focused in the right place: on the hopes of American families that we can continue the substantial progress we’ve made in rebuilding the economy from the worst recession in generations. He called on us to put the nation’s interest before partisan interest in order to avoid the damaging automatic spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect in just a few weeks. I applaud his call for a bipartisan, balanced approach that avoids the damage those cuts would do to our national security and important priorities here at home such as education and health care. I very much welcomed his support of raising additional revenue to avoid those cuts by closing tax loopholes for the well-off and well-connected, by reducing tax incentives to move jobs overseas and by ending special-interest tax breaks. I’ll continue to work with the administration and with members of both parties to achieve that goal.”
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