Friday, April 2, 2010

Pelosi, Obama hail jobs news in turning attention to economy

THE HILL, 4/2/2010 by Ian Swanson and Sam Youngman - Democrats sought to capitalize Friday on news that the economy added 162,000 jobs in March. ∴ Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and President Barack Obama both hailed the $787 billion stimulus measure for spurring the creation of new jobs, the most the economy has seen in one month in three years. Read more at The Hill. House Minority Whip, Eric Cantor (VA) said,

    “Yet we must set our sights higher, our goals larger, and our actions bolder. Americans deserve far more than the up-and-down, roller coaster-like unemployment reports of the past few months.”

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