for his part is out doing campaign-style bus tour events in the midwest today, tomorrow, and wednesday, talking about what everybody wants to talk about, which is the economy. so far he's making two essential points, neither about aliens, arguing republicans are trying to block any economic process and he is arguing that in order to get any economic progress, we are going to have to overtly do stuff as a government. >> congress right now could start putting people to work rebuilding america. at a time where interest rates are low, contractors are begging for work, construction workers are lining up to find jobs, let's rebuild america. we could be rebuilding roads and bridges and schools and parks all across america right now. could put hundreds of thousands of folks to work right now. there's a bill sitting in congress right now that would set up an infrastructure bank to get that moving, attracting private sector dollars, not just public dollars. congress needs to move.