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Following tonight’s State of the Union address to Congress and the nation, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga reports from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol that  he was ‘a little frustrated’ with the President’s speech.

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“Actions speak louder than words. The President was talking about security for our energy and making sure that we’ve got a strong domestic and friendly source of that. Yet just last week, he put the kibosh on the Keystone Pipeline project, which would be 20,000 jobs directly in the United States plus many many more, up to 100,000 additional jobs because of that project. I think there’s an inconsistency there.

I also think everybody’s looking for real and authentic, genuine solutions to the jobs situation in the United States. It’s not just taxation, it’s also the regulation that this administration has put on our economy. We have to be very careful about that moving forward.

The other thing is that it’s been, today, 1,000 days since the Senate passed a budget. That is absolutely ridiculous; not acceptable. We’ve got 30 job-creating bills that have passed the House of Representatives that are sitting over in the Senate awaiting action and I wish the President had called on the Senate to get going on those very important bills,” Huizenga said.