{"id":10455,"date":"2011-10-06T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10455"},"modified":"2011-10-06T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:59:05","slug":"pres-obama-congress-should-vote-on-jobs-bill-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10455","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama: Congress Should Vote On Jobs Bill In October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> demanded Monday that Congress vote on his jobs legislation package this month despite signs that the full measure faces stiff resistance. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to sign it,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>A leading House Republican, however, says that while lawmakers will vote on elements of the president&#8217;s jobs bill, his broad $447 billion proposal will not be considered in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This all or nothing approach is unreasonable,&#8221; said House Majority Leader<strong> Eric Cantor<\/strong> of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says it is not prepared to bargain away aspects of the bill at this point, and senior administration officials seemed intent on putting Republicans on the spot by insisting on a vote on the complete <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> bill. Since introducing the bill three weeks ago, the president has mounted a steady public campaign on behalf of his bill, trying to cast Congress and Republicans in particular as obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we don&#8217;t see the need to do is negotiate away aspects of the bill that are non-controversial, are broadly supported by the American public, broadly supported by Democrats and Republicans, before there is a chance to vote on the bill,&#8221; White House spokesman<strong> Jay Carney<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>Underscoring that point,<strong> Pres. Obama<\/strong> told reporters at the start of a Cabinet meeting Monday that Republicans must spell out what aspects of his plan they agree with and which they reject. &#8220;They should tell us what it is that they&#8217;re not willing to go for,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans did detail what elements of <strong>Pres. Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> plan they would support in a Sept. 16 memorandum. And on Monday, <strong>Cantor<\/strong> identified legislation that the House would act on this month, including repealing a law requiring the government to withhold 3 percent of nearly all payments made to contractors, ratifying trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, eliminating burdensome regulations and boosting the ability of small businesses to obtain capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama demanded Monday that Congress vote on his jobs legislation package this month despite signs that the full measure faces stiff resistance. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to sign it,&#8221; the president said. A leading House Republican, however, says that while lawmakers will vote on elements of the president&#8217;s jobs bill, his broad $447 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}