Levin -- Statement on State of the Union Address

WASHINGTON – Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following response to President Obama's State of the Union address:

"With our economy on the way back and our nation a safer place thanks to his leadership, President Obama laid out a positive, powerful and persuasive vision of the importance of the middle class and American manufacturing. The president articulated an action plan that sets our priorities in the right place – middle class opportunity, tax fairness, and a make it in America manufacturing policy.

"The divisive policies of many Republicans in Congress – who blame the unemployed for unemployment, put gridlock over government action, and protect tax breaks for the very wealthiest – simply leave the middle class behind."

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