During his Thursday news conference, President Obama pressed lawmakers to pass his American Jobs Act and put people back to work repairing the country’s infrastructure.
“We’ve got millions of laid-off construction workers who could right now be busy rebuilding roads, rebuilding bridges, rebuilding schools,” Obama said. “This jobs bill gives them a chance to get back to work rebuilding America. Why wouldn’t we want that to happen? Why would you vote against that?”
Obama reminded reporters of a recent trip he made to a bridge between House Speaker John Boehner’s (R) home state, Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R) home state, Kentucky.
“Some of you were with me when we visited a bridge between Ohio and Kentucky that’s been classified as ‘functionally obsolete,’” Obama said Thursday. “That’s a fancy way of saying it’s old and breaking down. We’ve heard about bridges in both states that are falling apart, and that’s true all across the country.”
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