2014 State of the Union address: on Free Trade

Green Party: Trans-Pacific Partnership widens the wealth divide

Barack Obama: Export more goods stamped "Made in the USA"

So let's make that decision easier for more companies. Our tax code is riddled with wasteful, complicated loopholes that punish businesses investing here, and reward companies that keep profits abroad. Let's flip that equation. Let's work together to close those loopholes, end those incentives to ship jobs overseas, and lower tax rates for businesses that create jobs here at home

Let's do more to help the entrepreneurs and small business owners who create most new jobs in America. And when 98% of our exporters are small businesses, new trade partnerships with Europe and the Asia-Pacific will help them create more jobs. We need to work together on tools like bipartisan trade promotion authority to protect our workers, protect our environment, and open new markets to new goods stamped "Made in the USA." China and Europe aren't standing on the sidelines. Neither should we.

Cathy McMorris-Rodgers: FactCheck: US #1 for FDI, but #14 or #22 on other measures

FactCheck: That depends on which business leaders you talk to. The White House cited an A.T. Kearney survey as the basis for Obama's remark, noting the US indeed landed at the top of the list for expected foreign direct investment. But the US doesn't fare anywhere near as well in other prominent business analysis.

• Forbes' annual report on the best country to do business put Ireland at the top, while the US landed at No. 14.
• India, Brazil, China and Canada all outpaced the United States in an Ernst & Young survey released in November.
• And the Milken Institute--which measures countries on 67 variables, including economic fundamentals and regulations--put the United States at No. 22, behind Hong Kong (No. 1), Estonia (No.11) and France (No. 21).