Star Tribune: Minnesota Senators praise Obama’s economic focus

Posted in News Clips on January 27th, 2010

Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken may not see eye-to-eye on the way forward for health care (She: “scale down;” He: “full bore”), but Minnesota’s two U.S. senators were singing in the same Democratic chorus on the middle-class focus of President Obama’s first State of the Union speech Wednesday night.

Franken praised Obama’s focus on the economy: “The President is where Minnesota wants him to be – focused like a laser on jobs. The only way we’re going to turn this economy around is to put people to work right away.”

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