Labor Sec’y: Obama Would Create Jobs by Investing in ‘Our Roads and Our Bridges’

“You know, again, the president's always open to good ideas and we -- and he continued yesterday talking to members of the Senate. He will continue to talk to others, and frankly he's had a number of things on the table in terms of investing in job creation. There’s been a number of people saying, 'Well, you don't have a plan for jobs.' Well actually, that's not right. The president has put forth a very aggressive growth strategy that involves investing in infrastructure, our roads and our bridges, a tax cut for businesses which would finance these infrastructure investments, immigration reform which would grow the economy, investing in skills which we spend a lot of time on in the Department of Labor so that people have the skills to compete for today's and tomorrow's jobs. I think we can get all of these done. I hope we can continue in the long rich and appropriate bipartisan tradition of extending emergency unemployment benefits."