WASHINGTON, DC—Senator John reacted to the State of the Union Address Tuesday night.
 
“My hope would be that even though this is an election year that the president will work with us, and I stand ready as a Republican in the senate to work with him on policies that will help grow the economy, help us create jobs, and it starts by reforming our tax code. That’s something that the American people want to see happen. We need a simple, clear, fair tax code that gets rid of the loop holes, lowers rates on our small businesses and our job creators, and makes us more competitive with the people we compete with around the world.
 
“We need regulatory reform that will get rid of the massive amounts of regulations that are making it more costly, more difficult, more expensive to create jobs in this country.
 
“And we need an energy security plan that will increase our commitment to domestic energy production and so that we don’t continue to rely on foreign sources of energy and obviously the Keystone Pipeline was a great project. Lots of shovel ready jobs, improves our energy independence, helps bring in additional revenues for state and local governments, yet it was vetoed by the president.
 
“If the president is serious about creating jobs, he needs to be willing to work with us even though it is an election year to achieve these objectives. As I said, I look forward to working with him, and I hope that in the days ahead that the campaign rhetoric that we heard in the speech will actually translate into a record of accomplishment for the American people that’s something we haven’t seen before, certainly something that I hope we see in the future.”