The Senate rejected a measure of the Obama plan for jobs.

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AFP - The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected a measure of the plan President Barack Obama's job to assist the states to hire new teachers, rescue workers and police officers at a cost of $ 35 billion. We had 60 votes to allow an examination of the text. However, only 50 senators voted in favor and 50 against, in the upper chamber where Democrats predominate but where Republicans have a blocking minority. The Republicans opposed the measure because the Senate Democrats plan to finance it by a tax increase for millionaires.

On October 11, the Senate had already rejected the president's plan as a whole, is a measure to stimulate growth and employment amounting to 447 billion dollars. The president and his Democratic allies in the Senate are referred for adoption action plan piece by piece. But the Republican minority blocking has not wavered Thursday night by blocking the road again to the project of President Obama, rallying in passing a handful of Democrats. But the president had worked hard this week by making a bus tour of three days and 1,000 miles across North Carolina (southeast) and Virginia (east), in an attempt to rally public opinion public employment plan.

The Senate also rejected Thursday night (by 57 votes against 43) another piece of the job Obama's plan - backed by Republicans - that would have repealed a law imposing a withholding tax of 3% for sub-contractors employed by the federal government or the states. The Democrats opposed the measure because the Republicans had planned to be financed by drastic budget cuts. Less than 13 months of the election in November 2012, during which the Republicans hope to unseat President Obama, the battle rages between the two parties in Congress reluctant to give ground, while the unemployment rate remains stubbornly in the country to 9.1%.

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