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Great to be with you and with a great speech. To endorse donald trump and 26 teams are to be active in the campaign and now one year into the presidency he gave me factbased speech about the economy and how it is booming. Its also an inspirational speech. As he talked about, the things we have yet to achieve for those in the country still struggling and living in poverty we need to find them, get them skills so i thought that this was a great speech and my only disappointment is the partisan divide on the floor where time after time standing ovation by the republicans and i think with the exception of joe manchin from West Virginia who stood with us and said that the rest of the democrats sat on their hands and i will just use the word it was disappointing. The president did say we should set aside differences and find a common ground. How was that possible at this point . Certainly it should always be possible when we fund our military. We did see the democrats standing up on that as
The buffalo area. What a great speech. Im proud to have been the first member of congress to endorse donald trump for president back in february 24, 2016. Certainly active in the campaign, and now, one year into his presidency, he gave a factbased speech about our economy, how its booming, the stock market, the jobs, the investment, and the great work we did on the tax reform, but it was also an inspirational speech , you know, a call for america to be better, to be great. You know, and as he talked about the things we have yet to achieve, for some of those in our country still struggling, living in poverty, we need to find them, get them skills, find them jobs. So i thought this was a great speech, and my only disappointment was to see the partisan divide on the floor where time after time, Standing Ovations by our republicans, and i think with the exception of joe manson from west virginia, the rest of the democrats sat on their hands. I will use the word disappointing. The president
To the cd is congressman Chris Collins, republican of western new york, the buffalo area. Good evening. Speech. To endorse donald trump and 26 teams are to be active in the campaign and now one year into the presidency he gave me factbased speech about the economy and how it is booming. Its also an inspirational speech. As he talked about, the things we have yet to achieve for those in the country still struggling and living in poverty we need to find them, get them skills so i thought that this was a great speech and my only disappointment is the partisan divide on the floor where time after time standing ovation by the republicans and i think with the exception of joe manchin from West Virginia who stood with us and said that the rest of the democrats sat on their hands and i will just use the word it was disappointing. The president did say we should set aside differences and find a common ground. How was that possible at this point . Certainly it should always be possible when we f
Good evening, this is continuing live coverage of seats spent to President Trumps first state of the union address. You might recognize wherever standing and camped out with other media outlets. This is National Statuary hall, not far from where the president spoke. Speak, tradition for them to come out talk to reporters. Well do this for an hour so as we line up members of both sides of the aisle. The first member is congressman Chris Collins of western new york. Good evening. Its great to be with you. Proud to have been the first member of congress to endorse President Trump for congress. Active in the campaign and now he gave a factbased speech about our economy, how its booming, the stock markets and the great work we did on the tax reform. It was an inspirational speech, a call for america to be better, to be great. He talked about the things we have yet to achieve. For some of those still struggling living in poverty, we need to find them and get them skills and jobs. It was a gr