Obama Wraps Up Bus Tour With Firehouse Visit

President Obama made his final stop Wednesday on a three-day bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia where he’s been pushing for Congress to pass the American Jobs Act.

Following the Senate’s rejection of the president’s proposal as a unified package, Obama has continued to push Congress to pass his jobs bill in a piecemeal fashion.

Obama said that Congress would be acting on a piece of the American Jobs Act as early as this week that would “put hundreds of thousand of firefighters back on the job.”

“Keeping first responders on the job, that’s a jobs plan,” Obama said, playing to the crowd of firefighters at Fire Station 9 in Chesterfield, Va.

“I don’t know if these members of Congress… maybe they haven’t met some of these firefighters. I don’t think they want to tell them that their jobs aren’t worth serving,” Obama said. “Some of these guys are pretty big.”

Republicans in Congress have not been supportive of the president’s jobs plan, accusing him of using the opportunity to campaign in two key electoral states.

“Never do I believe any of us have seen the kind of activity that the president has engaged in,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday on the Senate floor. “That’s wrong, that’s the wrong thing to do.”