Weekly Addresses - 10/2/10

Weekly Address: Solar Power & a Clean Energy Economy

The President's Weekly Radio Address
The President points to a revolutionary new solar plant that will employ 1,000 people and power 140,000 homes. The plant is possible because of the President's investments in the clean energy economy, which Congressional Republicans want to eliminate.

Senate GOP Leader McConnell Delivers Weekly GOP Address On Democrats' Misplaced Priorities

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The Republican Response to the President's Weekly Address
In the Weekly Republican Address, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) discusses congressional Democrats' lack of attention to jobs and looming tax increases.
Leader McConnell says, "At the moment, nearly 15 million Americans are currently looking for work and can't find it. Another 11 million are working below their skill levels. Yet virtually every single piece of major legislation Democrat leaders in Washington have proposed over the past 19 months has made it either harder for businesses to hire new workers or retain the workers they already have. And now they want to make it even worse."
He points out, "Earlier this week, Democrat leaders who've spent the past year and a half working tirelessly to expand the reach of government, left town without doing the single most important thing they could have done for jobs. Too preoccupied enacting the rest of their agenda, they neglected to pass or even propose legislation that would prevent one of the largest tax hikes in history. As a result, at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, every American who pays income taxes is set to get a tax hike that Democrats have had two years to prevent."