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Related: About this forumObama to Sign Transportation & Student Loan Int. Rate Bill at Event w/Construction Workers, Students
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
July 03, 2012
President Obama to Sign Transportation and Student Loan Interest Rate Bill at Event with Construction Workers, Students
WASHINGTONOn Friday, July 6, in the late afternoon, President Obama will hold an event at the White House with construction workers and college students to sign HR 4348, which will put Americans to work repairing the nations crumbling roads and bridges and will prevent interest rates from doubling for more than 7 million students. More details will be released as they become available.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/03/president-obama-sign-transportation-and-student-loan-interest-rate-bill-
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Obama to Sign Transportation & Student Loan Int. Rate Bill at Event w/Construction Workers, Students (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jul 2012
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Wounded Bear
(58,442 posts)1. Another victory....
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. So this got past Rand Paul and the Baggers. Reid and Pelosi got this through. Thanks for the news.
Last edited Wed Jul 4, 2012, 03:46 AM - Edit history (1)
This is going to really help unemployment. We have the ACA and now are working to ease the terrible pressure of student loans. Eventually we can make it better.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)3. like that
K&R
ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)4. BRILLIANT timing, after that morning's June employment report from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The presence of construction workers will highlight Republicans' long obstruction of the construction sector, down 28,000 jobs in May.
I hope he spends a full five minutes on the additional million jobs the Republicans STILL are blocking, in his American Jobs Act.
This speech may soften the "hit" he'll take in the polls for a presumably weak jobs report that morning, especially if Biden, Pelosi, Reid and others take up the cry of Republican sabotage of the economy for purely partisan reasons.