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Dem Senator Suggests Obama Jobs Plan Won't Pass in Full

Season 2011 Episode 2580 | 11m 54s

House Speaker John Boehner offered his first major response to President Obama's new American Jobs Act in a speech Thursday. Jeffrey Brown discusses the politics of job creation with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.

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