US President Barack Obama has delivered his sixth State of the Union speech before a joint session of the Republican-controlled Congress. This is the first time the president addresses the Congress with Republicans holding the majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate It has been, and still is, a hard time for many. But tonight, we turn the page, he said in the Tuesday speech. Iran sanctions Obama warned the Congress that any measures to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program means a failure in the US diplomacy. New sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, will all but guarantee that diplomacy fails, he said. That is why I will veto any new sanctions bill that threatens to undo this progress. He further reiterated threats about keeping “all options on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran. Middle-class economics He defended his “middle-class economics”, noting his administration could not “put the security of families at risk by taking away their health insurance, or unraveling the new rules on Wall Street, or refighting past battles on immigration when we’ve got a system to fix.” “And if a bill comes to my desk that tries to do any of these things, it will earn my veto.” When the address is finished, freshman Republican Senator Joni Ernst will deliver the official Republican response. Gitmo closure “It makes no sense to spend three million dollars per prisoner to keep open a prison that the world condemns and terrorists use to recruit,” Obama said, censuring the “offensive stereotypes of Muslims – the vast majority of whom share our commitment to peace.” He claimed that he “prohibited torture” and made sure that US assassination drone attacks were “properly constrained”. The US president also stressed his “determination” to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:04:18 +0000
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