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In America tonight there will be many who will not be given much voice in the State of the Union discussion. They are the hungry and the homeless, the pained and the suffering, the victims of a society that can truly be called our two Americas. They will not be given much voice in the president's speech, the Republican response or the Tea Party address by the gentlelady from Minnesota.

Today many Americans have been jobless for more than 99 weeks and it will be a moral test for the president whether he champions them tonight or not. Right now we operate under a bipartisan agreement regarding the 99ers: Both parties have told them to drop dead.

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