While some reactions to the State of the Union Speech fell predictably along partisan lines, three members of Nevada's congressional delegation echoed President Barack Obama's call for job creation and his plea for members of Congress to work together.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid described the president's speech as “common sense solutions that will create jobs and put our country on a path to economic fairness.”

He said the president's recommendations will narrow the economic inequities in the U.S., make America a leader in clean energy and revivemanufacturing.

“To turn these job-creating proposals into reality, we need Republicans to work with us, and refrain from turning straightforward issues into all-or-nothing battles,” said Reid.

“I am optimistic that this year Republicans will turn away from the Tea Party and listen to the American people instead,” he said, calling on Congress to work together.

Fellow Democrat Rep. Shelley Berkley said the speech pointed up the desperate need to focus on job creation.

Berkley took a most partisan tone. She said creating jobs “starts by prioritizing Nevada's middle class over Wall Street millionaires and big-oil executives.”

“We can no longer afford Dean Heller's pro-Wall Street agenda that ships American jobs overseas,” she said.

She urged Washington Republicans including Heller “to stop blocking progress on the creation of good-paying jobs that stay right here in Nevada.”

She and Heller are facing each other in the race to fill the Senate seat vacated by the resignation of John Ensign — a race that is already highly contentious.

Sen. Heller, appointed to serve the final six months of Ensign's term in May, raised some of the same points, but without the partisan references of Reid and Berkley.

“As Nevada and our nation continue to struggle with high unemployment, finding common ground to move our nation forward is more critical today than ever,” he said.

“It is past time for a genuine effort to work in a bipartisan manner to fix our economy,” he said.

The problem, according to Heller, is he sees no roadmap to bolster economic growth or rein in the national debt.

Agreeing with parts of Obama's speech, Heller said: “By stopping the flow of burdensome regulations, reducing the federal debt and reforming the tax code, the president and Congress can help set the stage for long-term economic growth.”

While he didn't mention it in his statement following the speech, Heller must have been pleased with the president's call for a ban on insider trading by members of Congress, which is a ban that Heller has urged.