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    November 05, 2011

US Vice President Urges Congress to Back Jobs Bill

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   Vice President Joe Biden answers a question after speaking at the
   University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 4,
   2011.
   Photo: AP
   Vice President Joe Biden answers a question after speaking at the
   University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 4,
   2011.

   U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is appealing to the public to persuade
   Congress to approve the president's jobs bill.
   Biden delivered the weekly White House address Saturday, as President
   Barack Obama returned from the G20 economic summit in France.
   The vice president said the president is not waiting on Congress to
   act. He said Obama has already used his executive powers to reduce
   student loan payments and lower interest rates for homeowners
   refinancing loans.
   Vice President Biden says Republicans in Congress can help by stop
   blocking the jobs bill that would return hundreds of thousands of
   police, firefighters, teachers and construction workers back to work.
   ^Watch Vice Presient Biden's address:

   IFRAME: [1]http://www.youtube.com/embed/dwlIEGxmSus

   In the Republican address, Senator Scott Brown of the northeast state
   of Massachusetts appealed to Democrats in the Senate to back a jobs
   bill he introduced early this year. Brown says the bill gets rid of a
   mandate he describes as a "stealth tax" that will impact small
   businesses and contractors working for the federal government starting
   in 2013.

   ^Watch Republican weekly address:

   IFRAME: [2]http://www.youtube.com/embed/ouFJsn0sDbQ

   On Friday, the Labor department announced the economy had a net gain of
   80,000 jobs last month, as the country's unemployment rate dropped
   slightly in October to 9 percent.
   The jobless rate is the lowest in six months, but still leaves nearly
   14 million Americans out of work.

References

   1. http://www.youtube.com/embed/dwlIEGxmSus
   2. http://www.youtube.com/embed/ouFJsn0sDbQ

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