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Lawmakers React to Obama's Jobs Plan

By Laura Ellis
Published September 10, 2011 at 7:15 PM EDT

President Obama is proposing an ambitious, nearly $450 billion jobs plan to Congress — a key feature of which is a 2012 cut in payroll taxes. Thursday night, he presented the plan to a joint session of Congress. James Carroll, from the Courier-Journal's Washington Bureau, joined us on Friday's State of the News to explain how lawmakers have reacted to the plan, and what the chances are that it will be approved.

http://archive.wfpl.org/HereNow/20110909SON-carroll.mp3
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Laura Ellis
Laura is LPM's Director of Podcasts & Special Projects. Email Laura at lellis@lpm.org.
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