Obama Blitzed Pittsburgh to the strain on its work plan Tuesday, delivering a brief speech before an invitation-only crowd in a room of the union and the race for Air Force One for a fundraising trip to Florida. The plan was then defeated in the Senate.
Before his speech at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 5, the President also met for over an hour with a job creation works councils nationwide, union leaders and academics are trying to s to attack the problems of chronic unemployment nation. The president is also struggling with GOP lawmakers, who put his economic plan in a sleeper hold.
Soon the President's speech in its plan of 447 billion new job. He praised his calls for tax cuts and spending on construction, and tried to increase pressure on Republicans to support it.
Before his speech at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 5, the President also met for over an hour with a job creation works councils nationwide, union leaders and academics are trying to s to attack the problems of chronic unemployment nation. The president is also struggling with GOP lawmakers, who put his economic plan in a sleeper hold.
Soon the President's speech in its plan of 447 billion new job. He praised his calls for tax cuts and spending on construction, and tried to increase pressure on Republicans to support it.
"For people outside of Washington, that the policy against something, why not make sense. It makes no sense," he told a crowd of over 200 "and the upcoming election is 13 months away. Americans do not have the luxury of waiting 13 months. "
But the Democrats, there is no rush to support the efforts of even democratic control of the Senate, which voted, 50-49, Tuesday night, a short-floor required 60 votes to keep alive.
While the U.S. Democrats such as Rep. Mike Doyle Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and are on board with the proposal, the other in western Pennsylvania have been more moderate.
US Rep. Mark Critz (D., Cambria) supports the boards of infrastructure costs, teachers and first responders, but reductions in payroll tax issues that "affect the Social Security Trust Fund," its door said. US Rep. Jason Altmire (D., Allegheny) also have concerns with parts of the bill, while advocating increased infrastructure spending, his spokesman.
The Republicans are united in their opposition, and they rejected the President's visit as an event campaign to save a job: his own.
"Obama came to Pittsburgh to talk about jobs, but based on his economic record failed, and his eagerness to cover up the campaign with trips funded by taxpayers, it is clear that the task of Obama cares of its own, "said Pennsylvania GOP Chairman Rob Gleason.
The President arrived about 11:15 on Air Force One and was received at the track for Doyle, Ravenstahl, Altmire, and Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato.
Obama arrived at the IBEW headquarters just before noon and met with two students. The first group showed him how to bend the pipe and get a real piece of calibration. Another showed him how to fire electric motors. Obama asked how long they had all been in training.
"I am a first year," said Kenneth Eleam Apprentice, "but I know almost everything," laughed the president.
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