WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Congress to pass the infrastructure portion of his jobs bill, which goes to the House floor for debate this week. The president told construction workers at Georgetown University that they are doing their jobs, “now we need Congress to do theirs.”
The president’s $477 billion American Jobs Act was rejected by Congress in early October. It has been cut down to just the infrastructure portion of the act, designed to rejuvenate the construction industry, which was one of the hardest-hit industries by the economic recession.