From USA TODAY:
DECORAH, Iowa — President Obama kicked off a three-day Midwest bus tour Monday by pledging to present Congress with a detailed jobs plan and warned that “if they don’t get it done, then we’ll be running against a Congress that won’t work for the American people.”
It was the president’s most direct threat to Republicans who control the House and can block action in the Senate against a jobs package that already includes a payroll tax cut, extended unemployment benefits and a new public works program…
Decrying his GOP opponents’ unwillingness to compromise on jobs, health care and cutting budget deficits, Obama told small, supportive audiences amid the farms and factories of rural Iowa and Minnesota that government can help if his opponents quit playing politics…
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