President Obama called on the American people Monday to press lawmakers to pass his jobs-creation bill.
“I want you to pick up the phone, I want you to send an email, use one of those
airplane sky writers, dust off the fax machine, or you could just like, write a
letter,” said Obama.
Since introducing the American Jobs Act last Thursday Obama
has been promoting his plan and trying to pressure Congress to pass it and send it to his
desk.
In his remarks Monday, Obama stood in front of a backdrop of
teachers, first responders, construction workers and others he says, "would be helped by the American Jobs Act."
This is not the first time Obama has urged the public to
contact their representatives. At the height of the debt-ceiling crisis in late
July, Obama urged Americans to “Tweet at your Republican legislators and urge
them to support a bipartisan compromise to the debt crisis.”
