PRESIDENT OBAMA: … Five years ago this month, our economy was shedding 800,000 jobs, just in one month. But as Americans buckled down and worked hard and sacrificed, we began to come back. And our businesses have created more than 8 million new jobs since we hit the bottom. Our auto industry’s gone from bust … Continue reading
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the latest jobs report shows President Obama was wrong to close up his his jobs council. “This is the wrong time for President Obama to scrap his jobs council and delay his budget,” Boehner said in a statement released less than an hour after a new report found the jobless … Continue reading
America’s top two Republican leaders fired blistering broadsides Tuesday at President Barack Obama, saying that the president had made the economy and the future worse and that the United States “may never recover.” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) laid down the starkest warning, telling Fox News, “America can’t live for four more years with Barack … Continue reading
It seemed next to impossible last year — but, it’s a new year, and Congress finally decided to come together and pass something. A pretty big, $143 billion something. Fox Business: “Both the House and Senate have passed legislation extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million workers. It also extends long-term jobless benefits through … Continue reading