President Barack Obama on Friday finally signed long called-for legislation to keep student loan interest rates from rising, and he used his weekly address Saturday to tout the bill.
Fresh off a two-day campaign swing through Ohio and Pennsylvania – the address was recorded at a food processing plant in Boardman, Ohio – Obama’s weekly address avoided the news that dominated his trip: the Supreme Court’s health care decision and Friday’s monthly jobs numbers.
Instead Obama returned to the dominant theme he pushed on the road: That his policies like the transportation and student loan legislation will help the middle class. And for good measure, he threw in shots at Congress.
“For months, I’ve been calling on Congress to take half the money we’re no longer spending on war and use it to do some nation-building here at home,” he said. “There’s work to be done building roads and bridges and wireless networks. And there are hundreds of thousands of construction workers ready to do it.”
