As for pensions, the government wants to raise both contributions and the retirement age, and to eliminate special regimes for members of Congress, teachers, oil workers and the armed forces.
To their numbers must be added tens of millions of government employees, from the president and the members of Congress down to teachers, firemen, soldiers and veterans.
So we are working with Congress to find ways to keep our teachers in the classrooms, the police officers on the beat, and firefighters on call.
Standing with parents and teachers of gun violence victims, he urged Congress to take action that will protect other children and families from the pain and grief these families have experienced.
And frankly, if Congress had said yes to helping states put teachers back to work and put the economy before our politics, then tens of thousands more teachers in New York would have a job right now.
They discussed a number of issues, including the middle-class tax cut, other items on the congressional agenda, actions that Congress can take to help small businesses, actions that Congress can take to put construction workers and teachers back to work.
And there is an opportunity -- and has been now for quite some time -- an opportunity to help the economy grow faster, to help it create more jobs, to protect the jobs of teachers and firefighters, and policemen and women, and Congress has failed to act on those.
So I want this Congress to give our schools the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best teachers.
On Tuesday, the President will travel to Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas, to deliver remarks urging Congress to pass the American Jobs Act now to keep teachers in the classroom, rebuild our schools across the nation, and put money in the pockets of working Americans, while not adding a dime to the deficit.
So he proposed in the American Jobs Act that Congress should take action, that together we should take action to help return teachers to the classroom.
In the coming days, Members of Congress will have to take a stand on whether they believe we should put teachers, construction workers, police officers and firefighters back on the job.
And there's only one reason that this plan hasn't passed the United States Congress, and that's because Republican members of Congress have put protecting tax benefits for millionaires and billionaires ahead of rehiring these teachers.
Since 2001 Congress has created or expanded hundreds of tax breaks--for students and for teachers, for domestic manufacturers and for those with profits overseas, for solar and wind power, and for oil, gas and coal.
And by the way, we could create a million additional new jobs if this Congress would pass the jobs bill I sent them a year ago -- jobs for teachers and construction workers and folks who have been out there looking for work for a long time. (Applause.) We can do that, but I need your help, Iowa.
Right now, Congress should pass a bill to help states prevent more layoffs, so we can put thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers back on the job.
WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: It��s Time for Congress to Get to Work
So this week Congress is going to get to vote on whether or not hundreds of thousands of police officers and teachers and firefighters get back on the job.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President on the American Jobs Act
In this year's budget, Congress agreed, at Mr Clinton's insistence, to finance the hiring of 100, 000 new teachers.
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