Obama: ‘We Can’t Wait’ for Congress
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 25th, 2011 4:46 am by HL
Obama: ‘We Can’t Wait’ for Congress
With his jobs plan stymied in Congress by Republican opposition, President Barack Obama on Monday began a series of executive-branch actions to confront housing, education and other economic problems, heralded by a new mantra: “We can’t wait” for lawmakers to act. Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s communications director, said, “The president will continue to pressure Congressional Republicans to put country before party and pass the American Jobs Act, but he believes we cannot wait, so he will act where they won’t.”