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President in Colorado to Push Jobs Act

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011   

DENVER - President Obama is spending another week taking his pitch for the American Jobs Act to the American public. Today, he's at the University of Colorado at Denver - hoping to drum up support for the bill, which includes a measure to stabilize state funding for firefighters, police officers and teachers.

Senate Republicans again filibustered the bill last week, preventing that specific element from coming to a vote.

John Barry, director of the federal Office of Personnel Management, says the package also includes tax cuts, aid to local governments and incentives for small businesses to hire veterans.

"What American, Republican or Democrat, is against getting veterans jobs when they return back to the United States? That bill should have been on the president's desk two weeks ago."

The act would be funded by higher taxes on people making more than $1 million a year, although most Republicans in the Senate have said they oppose any new spending or higher taxes.

Kenny Purdue, president of the West Virginia AFL-CIO, says the funding proposal for the act is an idea that is striking a chord with many of the "99 Percent" protesters around the nation who are demanding a fairer tax system.

"It put a tax on the ultra-rich, the million-dollar people, which would pay for this whole thing."

Opponents of that idea say it isn't fair to single out any class of people for higher tax rates.

Information on the American Jobs Act is online at whitehouse.gov/jobsact.


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