WASHINGTON - US president Barack Obama has requested a joint session of Congress on September 7th for a prime-time address to unveil his proposals to promote job growth.
The request would place Mr Obama in a forum that presidents usually reserve for annual State of the Union addresses and occasions such as national crises as he opens the autumn political season with a new economic agenda. In a letter to House speaker John Boehner, Mr Obama said he wanted to announce his initiatives to create jobs and jump-start the economy in the address.
He wrote that he wished to lay out bipartisan proposals the Congress could use to rebuild the US economy “by strengthening small businesses, helping Americans get back to work, and putting more money in the pay cheques of the middle-class and working Americans, while still reducing our deficit and getting our fiscal house in order”. - (Bloomberg)
