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Meanwhile, as the President gathers lawmakers, chief executives and union heads on Thursday at the White House for a jobs summit, business groups are pushing for an array of tax cuts. The National Federation of Independent Business would like to see a payroll tax holiday. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

It remains unclear if the House will pass a large catch-all bill or several smaller bills. House leadership had been aiming to pass a bill, or bills, by the end of the year, though majority leader Steny Hoyer on Tuesday indicated that the timeline may slip. "The important thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Still, given that more than 3 million jobs have been lost since Obama took office - and in that time his approval ratings have plummeted - Congress feels more must be done. Indeed, the Congressional Black Caucus, upset that Main Street, and especially hard-hit black communities, has received little aid compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Another factor driving the calls for a second stimulus is that nearly 90% of the original stimulus money targeted for infrastructure projects will have been spent by May, and the Highway Trust Fund could be running a shortfall in June, says House Transportation Committee chairman James Oberstar. "[It] means, unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

"I am painfully aware that this is politically unpopular," the President said earlier that day over lunch with a group of columnists in the White House library, an elegant little room in the basement of the mansion. "It's least popular in my own party. But that's not how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Can Obama Sell America on This War? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

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