Education to get $55 billion boost in Obama’s jobs plan

Within president Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill he announced Thursday in an address to a joint session of Congress, some $55 billion would go directly to K-12 educators and renovations to nearly 35,000 schools.

The speech has won plaudits from labor groups and most of the Democratic base for its More…

McConnell on Obama’s Coming Health Care Address: No Matter

Via Roll Call, here’s Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) telling reporters Wednesday that President Obama’s looming heath reform address to Congress will have little sway over Republicans who oppose the plan:

“I don’t think the problem is messaging,” McConnell said Wednesday in a conference call.

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