Hoyer: GOP Rejecting Everything Obama Sends Them

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) blasted Senate Republicans for shooting down a $35 billion piece of the American Jobs Act that is said to put teachers and first responders back to work.

“Last night’s vote demonstrated once again that Republicans in Congress are more concerned with positioning for the next election than doing what’s necessary to help get Americans back to work. The bill blocked by Senate Republicans would have kept thousands of teachers in the classroom and thousands of first responders at the ready in communities across the country,” Hoyer said in a statement. “Over and over, Republicans seem intent on torpedoing any proposal by the President and Democrats, even if it contains bipartisan ideas and would benefit those who are desperately seeking jobs. It is long past time for them to work together with Democrats to pass job-creating legislation like the one they blocked last night. I strongly urge Republican Leader McConnell to reconsider and allow the Senate to move forward with this and other measures to create jobs now.”