Obama slams Congress again over stalled jobs steps
By REUTERS
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama, seeking to deflect blame for a sluggish US economy that could hurt his hopes for re-election, kept up the pressure on congressional Republicans on Saturday to work with him over policies designed to spur hiring.A disappointing May jobs report and other soft data on the economy has fanned concerns that the US recovery may be stalling, just as a debt crisis in Europe threatens to do further harm by rocking global financial markets.Ticking off a long list of proposals that have been stalled in Congress for months, the Democratic president chided Republicans for seeming to prefer to wait until after the November 6 election rather than talk about finding a way forward now."Just this past week, one of them said, "Why not wait for the reinforcements?" That's a quote. And you can bet plenty of his colleagues are thinking the same thing," Obama said in his weekly radio and internet address.
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