Vice President Biden fills in for this week's address
Vice President Biden stepped in for President Obama to deliver this week's address. In addition to highlighting presidential executive orders on student loans and home refinancing, Vice President Biden also discussed the need to act now on jobs, continuing to pressure Republican lawmakers who have voted against the President's jobs proposals in recent weeks:
"The President and I believe we have to act now. That's why we've introduced the jobs bill which independent validators said would create 2 million new jobs.
Although 51 senators voted for that jobs bill, our Republican colleagues in the Senate used a procedural requirement that requires it to have 60 votes, so it failed.
And since then we've taken every important piece of the jobs bill and demanded that we have a separate vote. But our Republican colleagues in the Senate have voted unanimously to vote down each and every part so far: to restore 400,000 jobs for teachers, police officers, firefighters, putting them back in classrooms, on the streets and in the fire houses.
And then on Thursday, they unanimously voted down the second part of our program: to rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges, which would have created more than 400,000 good paying jobs."
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