White House: Jobs Push Just Beginning

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Friday that despite setbacks in Congress, the White House’s push for jobs legislation is just beginning.

“The Senate vote was the beginning of the plan, not the end,” Carney said aboard Air Force One en route to Detroit, Michigan. “We aren’t going to stop talking about jobs and the economy until we have the kind of economic growth and jobs creation that this country deserves.”

Added Carney, “You can expect to hear the president making the case that we need to take action until Congress takes action, until it makes a decision on every item in the America Jobs Act.”

The jobs bill failed to clear a procedural hurdle in the Senate earlier this week, coming in with a final tally of 50-49.