President Obama’s final State of the Union address Tuesday night focused heavily on issues he has focused on reforming since winning the Oval Office seven years ago.
His speech focused on calming the public’s concerns about national security and encouraged American businesses to turn their entrepreneurialism toward fighting climate change.
Listed below are the number of times the president talked about a specific issue. A number of these topics, including closing Guantanamo Bay and immigration reform — though they did not get mentioned a lot this year — have been staples in the annual speech.
13 — Terrorism/Islamic State/al Qaeda
7 — Climate Change
6 — Immigration
4 — Healthcare
2 — Guns
1 — Guantanamo Bay
1 — Women’s rights
1 – Minimum wage
1 — Technology
1 — Veterans’ affairs
Full text of the State of the Union is available here.
