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The american jobs act. it means they want to help the american people. it means they want to put friends and neighbors to work. that's what this bill would do, building roads and bridges and runways. >> let's talk about the infrastructure part that will be voted on tomorrow, calls for $50 billion for projects around the country and an additional $10 billion seed money for future projects. the money would come from a surtax on incomes above $1 million. do you think this has any chance of passing considering the republicans have vowed to block any jobs proposal that includes tax hikes? >> i'm op...

Be some tax incentives to some companies to make -- do more research and development, so there are different pieces in that bill that we might be able to find votes for. >> let's talk about another one. last night the president was in orlando and between fund-raisers you might have seen this, he toasted to jobs with a group of unemployed workers. and he talked about republican presidents, lincoln and eisenhower, who invested in infrastructure which is a centerpiece of the president's plan. you're a blue dog, known as a more conservative brand of democrat, if the infrastructure part of the bill...

have a significant effect for our economy and for middle class families all across america. what these independent experts have also said is that if we don't act, the opposite will be true. there will be fewer jobs, weaker growth. so as we look towards next week, any senator out there who is thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to sdmran exactly why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation at surnl such an urgent time for our families and for our businesses. now, congressional republicans say one of the mo...

lost the ability to inspire confidence in the american people here? >> the entire country is show-me state. they have heard for some time from the very beginning before the stimulus plan, that the stimulus plan would keep unemployment under a certain amount, grow the economy this amount. they've heard a lot of things that didn't happen, whether it was because the economy was worse than anyone thought it was, whether it was because it was the wrong remedy or not enough remedy, whatever the reason is the american people are now skeptical that washington, including president obama, can ...

time, since before the stimulus plan, that the stimulus plan would keep unemployment under a certain amount, grow the economy this amount. they have heard a lot of things that didn't happen, whether it was because the economy was worse than what they thought it was, whether it was because it was the wrong remedy or not enough remedy, whatever the reason is the american people are now skeptical that washington, including president obama, can do much to change things. i think that's what's reflected in the polls. everybody wants to see it before they believe it. >> those same polls sho...