Frank Pallone: “I took to the floor this morning during our morning hour debate to express my concern over what I call the President's…”

“I took to the floor this morning during our morning hour debate to express my concern over what I call the President's credibility problem. I talked about a credibility problem in the context of not only what we expect to be in tonight's State of the Union Address, but also by reference to the State of the Union Address that the President made last year. What I am talking about essentially when I mention a credibility problem is the fact that the President essentially makes promises about what he is going to do to solve the Nation's problems, particularly the economic downturn; but when we look at what he proposes, the action that he proposes to solve the problem, it does not really solve the problem. So the promise is made essentially by the President that we are going to turn around the economic downturn, but when we look at the proposals that he announces to accomplish that goal, there is no way that they could accomplish that goal, because they are not designed to accomplish that goal. The credibility problem exists in so many areas.”