State of the Union will be published next week, Obama focus on topics such as employment deficit
Xinhua comprehensive news, Barack Obama will be next Tuesday (25th) went to Congress, both houses of Congress members to the State of the Union speech.
State of the Union to Congress under the U.S. Constitution the president is one of the obligations. According to tradition, the president personally in general by the end of January each year the Congress, State of the Union speech to explain his policies and proposals for Congress to consider.
this year's State of the Union will be the Republicans win control of the House of Representatives, Mr Obama has sent the first major policy speech in parliament. He is facing stimulate the economy, boost employment, control government spending and deficit reduction difficult challenges.
• United States Congress House Speaker John Boehner said earlier that the United States in all aspects of the current challenges facing the Congress would like to hear Obama's policy proposals. He said the new Congress means that the parties must find common ground to meet the challenges.
It is reported that Obama's State of the Union is expected to focus on job creation, expand infrastructure and education spending to cope with the fiscal deficit and other issues. While support for Barack Obama recently picked up, the U.S. unemployment rate remains high, analysts believe that this State of the Union will set the direction of the next 2 years the United States, and even Obama can solve the indicator of U.S. economic problems, thus affecting His re-election in 2012 presidential election odds.
is generally believed that 9.4% unemployment rate in the United States, Obama's message will continue to focus on job creation. Pu Luofu White House senior adviser, said Obama will explore how the State of the Union "in today's job creation" and "make the U.S. more competitive tomorrow."
"The Wall Street Journal" quoted sources pointed out that Obama will be in the State of the Union for additional education, research funding, including renewable energy; will request for additional construction of roads and other infrastructure expenses. U.S. debt and budget deficit as a serious, Obama also proposed to reduce spending plans, but will reduce the scale of less than 100 billion U.S. dollars raised by the Republican Party. News that Obama will not target those repeat and the effectiveness of the federal government projects.
debt in the United States has exceeded 14 trillion yuan, and soon will exceed 14.3 trillion statutory debt limit. White House officials said that if Congress failed to raise the cap, the consequences would be "catastrophic"; Obama is expected to repeat the argument in the State of the Union, and to cut expenditure in exchange for Republican support to raise the cap.
Although the State of the Union will be devoted mostly concentrated in the domestic affairs, it is expected Obama will mention a number of foreign affairs. Obama may be mentioned that China-US relations, and reiterated the withdrawal from Afghanistan as scheduled this year.
