Payne, Jr. Responds to President’s State of the Union Address on C-SPAN

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) spoke with C-SPAN last night to discuss President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Below is an excerpt from the interview and link to the video.

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“The president demonstrated his coolness under fire, and set out an agenda and a vision for this country for the next decade.... History will be very kind to this president based on the things he has been able to accomplish with an obstructionist legislature. And it has just been incredible, the things he has been able to do over the course of the last eight years in moving this country forward. Unemployment is half of what it was when he came to office…. Gun control, in Chicago, as it is for me in Newark, is a major issue. So I am in lockstep with the president on sensible gun reform in this country. It needs to be done. Our urban areas, our young people are dying at an alarming rate. Black Lives Matter has brought that to the forefront. And we need to continue to move forward in making sure this nation has sensible gun legislation.”