COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama is challenging Congress to pass his jobs bill immediately, asking lawmakers, "What on earth are we waiting for?"
Speaking at a school in House Speaker John Boehner's home state of Ohio, Obama is highlighting one element of the jobs plan that would devote $25 billion of new spending to school construction and modernization.
Obama says the school renovation plan would put tens of thousands of construction workers in Ohio back to work.
The president sent his $447 billion jobs bill to Congress on Monday.
The White House says he won't fight efforts by Congress to vote on his jobs bill piece by piece. Earlier today, Obama's top campaign strategist David Axelrod told ABC that the bill isn't an "a la carte menu," and the administration is "not in a negotiation to break up the package." But White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters traveling with the president to Ohio that if Congress passes a portion of the plan, Obama would sign it, and then "press Congress to get the rest of the job done."
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