Obama to GOP on jobs bill: "Do the right thing"

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he's going to travel the country telling lawmakers to do their jobs and vote in favor of his economic proposals.

Coming off a week when his nearly $450 billion jobs bill died in the Senate, Obama made no reference to that failure, instead promising to renew efforts to get Republicans to vote on individual parts of the legislation.

"Next week, I'm urging members of Congress to vote on putting hundreds of thousands of teachers back in the classroom, cops back on the streets and firefighters back on the job," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.

"And if they vote `no' on that, they'll have to tell you why," he said. "They'll have to tell you why teachers in your community don't deserve a paycheck again. They'll have to tell your kids why they don't deserve to have their teacher back. They'll have to tell you why they're against common-sense proposals that would help families and strengthen our communities right now." Read more at Cbs News