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The 2010 State of the Union Address was given by United States President Barack Obama on January 27, 2010, to a joint session of Congress. It was aired on all the major networks starting at 9 pm ET.〔. ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and PBS online schedules as of January 24, 2010.〕 It was Obama's first State of the Union Address, though the president did give a non-State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress a month after taking office in 2009. The speech was delivered in the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. The presiding officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, Vice President Joe Biden (as Senate President) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat behind the president. The theme for President Obama’s speech was “Rescue, Rebuild, Restore – a New Foundation for Prosperity”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Obama Vows to Restore a ‘Tested’ Nation )〕 Among the topics that Obama covered in his speech were proposals for job creation and federal deficit reduction. Newly inaugurated Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell delivered the Republican response following the speech from the floor of the House of Delegates at the Virginia State Capitol in front of over 300 people. ==Legislative initiatives and policies== The following items were mentioned by the President as potential policy changes, legislative initiatives, or goals coming out of the address: * Fees on the country's largest banks (to follow up on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)) * Giving $30 billion from recovered TARP money to community banks to extend credit to small businesses * Job creation * * Building clean energy facilities * * Giving rebates to Americans who make their homes more energy-efficient * * Slash tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas (giving those breaks to companies that create jobs in the U.S.) * Encourage American innovation (focus on clean energy) * * Building nuclear power plants * * Exploring off-shore areas for oil and gas * * Investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies * * Comprehensive energy and climate bill to make clean energy profitable * More exports of goods (goal: double exports in 5 years) * * Launch of a National Export Initiative * Invest in the skills and education of our people * * Renew the Elementary and Secondary Education Act * * Revitalize community colleges * * Ending taxpayer subsidies to banks for student loans * * $10,000 tax credit for families for four years of college * * Increase Pell Grants * * Only 10% of income to student loans * * All student loan debt forgiven after 20 years, or after 10 years if they choose a career in public service * * Cost cutting at colleges and universities * Middle Class * * Nearly double the child tax credit * * Giving access to a retirement account for every worker * * Expanding the tax credit for those who start a nest egg (retirement fund) * * Refinancing to make more mortgages affordable * Tackling childhood obesity (headed by the First Lady, Michelle Obama) * Health care reform * Deficit reduction * * Starting in 2011, freeze government spending for 3 years on discretionary programs (excluding national security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) * * Eliminate programs that are unaffordable or don't work * * Extend middle-class tax cuts * * Bipartisan fiscal commission to provide solutions (created by Executive Order, if necessary) * * Restoring pay-as-you-go law * Require lobbyists to disclose every contact they make * Limits on contributions that lobbyists give to candidates * Reform for earmarks, publish them in a single location on the web * Crack down on violations of equal pay laws * Immigration reform * Repealing Don't ask, don't tell policy within the year to allow homosexuals to serve in the military openly * Treating the nation of Israel with respect 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2010 State of the Union Address」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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