Obama Seeks Quick Passage of Jobs Bill
09 September 2011
President Obama addressing both houses of Congress. Vice President Joe Biden, left, and House Speaker John Boehner are behind him.
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President Obama is urging Congress to approve a plan designed to create jobs. He announced his proposals Thursday night in a speech to Congress.
BARACK OBAMA: "I am sending this Congress a plan that you should pass right away. It’s called the American Jobs Act. There should be nothing controversial about this piece of legislation. Everything in here is the kind of proposal that’s been supported by both Democrats and Republicans -- including many who sit here tonight. And everything in this bill will be paid for. Everything."
The plan will cost almost four hundred fifty billion dollars. As a spending bill, it goes first to the House of Representatives, which the Republican Party controls.
The speech followed months of political battles over how to lower federal budget deficits and the fourteen-trillion-dollar national debt.
A compromise in July provided for one trillion dollars in spending cuts over the next ten years. In return, Congress raised the government's debt limit. But that deal failed to prevent a reduction in the nation's credit rating.
In his message, Mr. Obama called on Republicans and democrats to stop arguing and put people back to work.
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