{"id":549,"date":"2011-10-05T06:48:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T10:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=549"},"modified":"2011-10-05T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T11:00:23","slug":"obama-jobs-bill-president-challenges-republicans-on-447-billion-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/obama-jobs-bill-president-challenges-republicans-on-447-billion-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Jobs Bill: President Challenges Republicans On $447 Billion Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/10\/04\/obama-jobs-bill-president-challenges-gop_n_995328.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/r-PRESIDENT-OBAMAS-JOBS-BILL-large570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the Texas leg of his &#8220;pass this bill&#8221; tour, Obama chided Eric Cantor, Republican leader in the House of Representatives, for saying he would not allow a vote on the measure. The White House said the plan could save or create about 400,000 education jobs, including 39,500 in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like Mr. Cantor to come down here to Dallas and explain what exactly in this jobs bill does he not believe in,&#8221; Obama said at a college after speaking at fund-raising events in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if you won&#8217;t do that, at least put this jobs bill up for a vote so that the entire country knows exactly where members of Congress stand. Put your cards on the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/10\/04\/obama-jobs-bill-president-challenges-gop_n_995328.html\">Obama Jobs Bill: President Challenges Republicans On $447 Billion Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; On the Texas leg of his &#8220;pass this bill&#8221; tour, Obama chided Eric Cantor, Republican leader in the House of Representatives, for saying he would not allow a vote on the measure. The White House said the plan could save or create about 400,000 education jobs, including 39,500 in Texas. &#8220;I&#8217;d like Mr&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22,20],"tags":[55,34,26,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}