Obama pushes jobs bill while ‘green’ program fails

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President Obama redoubled his efforts to sell his jobs package Tuesday, firing broadsides at House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and taunting a would-be Republican challenger, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, even as new evidence emerged that one of the president’s major job programs is already failing.

“I’d like Mr. Cantor to come down here to Dallas and explain what in this jobs bill does he not believe in,” Obama said during a stop in Perry’s backyard. “And if you won’t do that, at least put this jobs bill up for a vote so that the entire country knows exactly where every member of Congress stands.”

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