{"id":646170,"date":"2010-01-27T23:56:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.70598"},"modified":"2010-01-27T23:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:57:40","slug":"chris-murphys-statement-on-sotu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/646170","title":{"rendered":"Chris Murphy&#8217;s statement on SOTU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; \"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-us\">&#8220;The President faced a tough crowd tonight, both sitting in Congress and watching at home in Connecticut.&nbsp; The economy isn&#8217;t as healthy as we need it to be, the health insurance reform bill is in limbo, and there is a level of anxiety across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-us\">&#8220;But no matter how angry people are, President Obama reminded us that we can&#8217;t let our frustration stand in the way of action &#8211; action to cut back on spending, focus on fixing the economy for the middle class and our small businesses, and find a way to pass sensible health insurance reform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-us\">&#8220;From Buy American legislation to tax breaks for small businesses which create jobs now, I&#8217;m ready to act with ideas that will invest in Connecticut&#8217;s workers for the long haul.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-us\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The President faced a tough crowd tonight, both sitting in Congress and watching at home in Connecticut.&nbsp; The economy isn&#8217;t as healthy as we need it to be, the health insurance reform bill is in limbo, and there is a level of anxiety across the state. &#8220;But no matter how angry people are, President Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2I66","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}