BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - President Barack Obama spoke in his State of the Union speech about encouraging energy production and manufacturing jobs.

But North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven says the president's actions haven't been matching his words.
    
Hoeven says the president has blocked construction of a Canadian oil pipeline to the United States that would lessen the nation's need to import oil from overseas.
    
The Republican senator says Obama's administration hasn't focused on shaping tax and regulatory policies that would encourage job creation and private investment.
    
Hoeven says the president's approach "has been to implement even more regulation."
    
He says he'll focus in the future on promoting what he says are pro-growth policies that can reduce the federal budget deficit and unemployment.