Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?Area_Senator_Makes_Nation_Listen_to_21-Hour_Speech; _Can?= ¹t Spare One Hour for President
From: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
To: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:31:18 +0000

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The DNC issued the following response to Texas Senator Ted Cruz for skipping the State of the Union address tonight:

“It takes some nerve to make the country listen to a 21-hour filibuster justifying a $24 billion government shutdown, and then refuse to take an hour to hear the Commander-in-Chief give the State of the Union address. We’re not sure who the Republican candidates have less respect for – the president or the taxpayers,” said Eric Walker, DNC Spokesperson.

Just as a reminder, this isn’t the first time Republicans have disrespected the President addressing Congress. Last year, Republicans cheered that the President had “no more campaigns to run.” But we all remember how that turned out:

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View this post on our Factivists site <http://factivists.democrats.org/kasich-the-one-thing-we-need-to-do-for-working-women-is-oppose-paid-maternity-leave/> here<http://factivists.democrats.org/area-senator-makes-nation-listen-to-21-hour-speech-cant-spare-one-hour-for-president/>.

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