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Unemployed workers. the president is calling it an important step forward for putting more americans back to work. the president met today with top business executives in d.c. in an effort to smooth over concerns about his economic policies. >> contrary to claims of some of my critics, i am an ardent believer in the free market. i believe businesses like yours are the engines of economic growth in this country. you create jobs. >> shepard: the bill cleared the senate today with bipartisan support. critics are still saying it doesn't go far enough. our senior white house correspondent major gar...

Its part as well, and democrats can't get all spooked about making tough decisions. let's get back to major garrett at the white house tonight. you know tonight senate democrats say they are already taking action. >> that's right. tomorrow senate democrats will unveil what they will call their jobs creation bill. they are not going to call it a second stimulus, shepard, but it's going to have many of the component part of the first stimulus it will extended insurance. insurance lose health insurance lose jobs. highway construction funding. in addition to that, tax credits for job creation. som...

Two years that they did from 2001 to 2006? because when i left congress, we had $155 billion surplus. when democrats got in control, we were up to about a $500 billion deficit. >> well, first, one of the reasons republicans were thrown out is because we didn't live up to our commitment to fiscal responsibili responsibility. if we don't do it again, throw us out. but we've put a budget on the table under congressman paul ryan of wisconsin that would keep the government growth at its historic levels that would reform our entitlement programs and make good on our word. you can see the budget. >> ...

Some of these because in his campaign bush 43, i'm talking about. in his campaign he touched ond some of these. well, maybe there's hope. by 2003, three years later he was going to opposite way and was one of the biggest spenders of all time and created more destructive regulations along with the fed pumping all this money into housing to create an artificial boom and bush pushing it and fanny and freddie creating this whole corrupt system that then when that fell apart brought the whole economy down. and then getting us in wars that made no sense to me at the time. and so we said we got to op...

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