Biden blasts Republicans for holding up jobs and recovery in weekly address

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Biden blasts Republicans for holding up jobs and recovery in weekly address

by Susan Gardner

My dad used to have a saying. He said, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about dignity. It’s about respect.

And too many Americans have been stripped of their dignity through no fault of their own. So we can't wait to help them. 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.

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Vice President Joe Biden stepped in to deliver this morning's weekly address, with his boss in Europe at the G20 summit. But he picked up the theme President Obama has been hammering Saturday mornings for weeks and weeks—pass the jobs bill, damn it. And the Republicans are specifically to blame for holding up economic relief for Americans.

The address was recorded at the University of Pittsburgh, where Biden met with students and pitched his talk to issues that directly concern them: reducing student debt and improving the job market for graduates.

Too many Americans are still struggling. Too many college students here at the University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere are worrying about the rising cost of their tuition, and the increasing accumulation of debt. And too many of their parents are in stagnant jobs or out of work, wondering if they're going to be able to send their child back to college next semester.

And whose fault is it? Biden was very, very specific—a welcome move the administration has made more and more often in the past month:

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.

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