later today President Obama is scheduled to give the first in a series of speeches about the economy. He is pivoting one more time to turn his attention to the millions of Americans who are still struggling 4 years after the recession ended. The reason I say ``one more time'' is because this morning one of the reporters said this is about the tenth time the President has pivoted to the economy. A White House adviser said on Sunday that the President is going to speak about ``what it means to be middle class in America.'' Well, I hope President Obama will talk about how his own policies have harmed and continue to harm the middle class in America. I hope he will talk about the harm that his health care law has done to hard-working families. I hope the President will finally start talking about these things because the American people have been talking about them for a long time now. I hear it every time I go home to Wyoming--almost every weekend. It doesn't matter whether I am in Fremont County, Park County, Laramie County, or Natrona County--wherever I am in Wyoming, I continue to hear about this law. Now we are even hearing about it from the very union leaders who were among the law's biggest supporters. The heads of three major labor unions put out a letter recently that warned of the damage the health care law is doing to the middle class. They wrote: The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe.…
On the recordJuly 24, 2013
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