Senate Dems press ahead with latest piece of jobs bill

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Senate Dems press ahead with latest piece of jobs bill





By NBC's Libby Leist

Senate Democrats on Friday rolled out the next phase in their push to pass individual parts of President Obama's jobs bill: a $60 billion bill to invest in infrastructure projects around the country.

In a conference call less than 24 hours after the Senate blocked a jobs bill for teachers and first responders, Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters, "We're going to give Senate Republicans another chance to do what's right for the country."

Reid said the bill will invest $50 million dollars in immediate projects for highway, transit, rail and aviation. And it will provide funds to improve and modernize U.S. airports and the U.S. air traffic control system, he said.

$10 billion dollars will be put toward the creation of a so-called national infrastructure bank for private and public capital to be used on infrastructure projects around the U.S. The bill would be paid for again by a surtax on millionaires. This time, 0.7 percent to pay for the $60 billion bill

[Firebrand Gary]

1. They should never stop. Dems should press ahead every day!

[Thav]

2. They also need to hammer the GOP

On why they keep voting against job creation.