“When I was looking for a tie this morning, I liked the red of the tie and then went ‘oh no, it’s Santa Claus,'” Gohmert said in the hall outside the House chamber. “But then I realized I’m going to hear Santa Claus speak tonight and he’s going to promise everybody everything they want — the only difference is this Santa Claus makes the children pay for the parents’ gifts.”
In his State of the Union address, Obama proposed extending unemployment benefits and urged Congress to “give America a raise.”