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(Washington, D.C.) – Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) released the following statement tonight in response to President Obama’s Address to Congress. Holt’s guest for the speech was Dr. Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest philanthropy exclusively devoted to improving the health and health care of all Americans.

MCKEON WELCOMES JACKSON'S CONFIRMATION TO EPA
 
(TRENTON, N.J.) - Assemblyman John F. McKeon today welcomed the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Lisa Jackson to head the Environmental Protection Agency. 
 

Yesterday President-elect Barack Obama outlined his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan in a speech at George Mason University.  Obama said we need to take "dramatic action" ASAP.  He asserted that if nothing is done, "this recession could linger for years."  On the contrary, Obama's spending plan guarantees that the economy will not recover because the federal government will spend additional trillions of dollars that must be borrowed to finance one trillion dollar annual deficits for many years.

The United States economy is in a widespread correction, known as a recession or depression, depending on your point of view.  This correction is occurring because interest rates were driven down to levels by the Federal Reserve igniting an orgy of speculation in real estate, especially housing, where easy credit sparked a massive buying spree by marginal (subprime) buyers, among others.  The housing bubble is unwinding, which means that housing prices are falling to find their equilibrium level, and the sooner this process is completed, the sooner the economy will recover. 

MCKEON: JACKSON'S PASSION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, PRAGMATIC APPROACH PERFECT MIX FOR EPA

Assemblyman John F. McKeon today applauded news that former state Department of Environmental Protection commissioner and current chief-of-staff to the governor Lisa P. Jackson will be nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to the country's top environmental job.

Like a horde of addicts looking for their next fix, 49 of the nation’s governors or governors-elect descended on the City of Brotherly Love last Tuesday to meet the incoming pusher in chief, Barack Obama.  Of course, the governors were not seeking heroin or any other banned substance from the president-elect, but were looking for a more potent “drug,” OPM—other people’s money.

As New Jerseyans get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving the nation's economic outlook is indeed bleak, and there doesn't seem much to be thankful for after eight years of the neoconservative Bush administration and seven years of the McGreevey, Codey, and Corzine regimes.

"If Barack Obama is taking economic advice from Gov. Corzine, then voters throughout the nation should be very scared,”

“I seriously have to question Mr. Obama’s judgment if thinks he can learn anything about how to run the nation’s economy from Jon Corzine,”

  WEST ORANGE, NJ – Senate President Richard J. Codey today called upon National Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean to heed the will of the people and encourage Super Delegates to apportion their votes to accurately and fairly reflect the choice of voters in state party primaries and caucuses.  In doing so, Codey sent the following letter today: