Republicans Have Blocked The American Jobs Act For One Year

Republicans like to say that Obama's policies have failed. My reply is what policies? his jobs act has been sitting in the Senate for exactly one year because the Senate Republicans have decided to block it. They've done this despite the fact that numerous economists have predicted that the bill will create more than a million jobs and add growth

–Moody’s Analytics estimated the American Jobs Act would create 1.9 million jobs and add two percent to gross domestic product.
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–The Economic Policy Institute estimated it would create 2.6 million jobs and protect an addition 1.6 million existing jobs.
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–Macroeconomic Advisers predicted it would create 2.1 million jobs and boost GDP by 1.5 percent.
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–Goldman Sachs estimated it would add 1.5 percent to GDP.
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