WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he’s going to travel the country telling lawmakers to do their jobs and vote in favor of his economic proposals, and he said congressional Republicans should stop picking partisan fights and act.
Coming off a week when his nearly $450 billion jobs bill died in the Senate, Obama made no reference to that failure. Instead he promised to renew efforts to get Republicans to vote on individual components of the legislation.
“Next week, I’m urging members of Congress to vote on putting hundreds of thousands of teachers back in the classroom, cops back on the streets and firefighters back on the job,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday. “And if they vote ‘no’ on that, they’ll have to tell you why.” The Associated Press
