confidence to congress if a conservative republican from florida and a democrat from delaware can find the time, energy and willingness to get across the divide and hammer out a bipartisan bill, perhaps that can encourage the super committee, perhaps that can instill confidence that all of us in congress can find common ground the next year and make progress doing the things we can do to help strengthen the private sector and create jobs. neil: senator rubio people will look at this and say, this is just some tinkering. we need to be bold. what do you say? guest: i voted for big, bold plans and i am republicked to do that tomorrow if we can get the votes. but we don t have them and we will not have them until the next election because of divided government. so what do we do? put up bills that will fail and do nothing? what do i say to the people hurting in florida? so, these may look small from
and i are frustrated not getting through our proposals. the if the s job bill was declared dead on arrival and efforts to pass it were uns isful the i get that. rather than giving up in frustration in my view the best next step is to show leadership by working with senator rubio and many others hopefully, democrat and republican, who will gin as cosponsors and find portions of the bill we can agree on and pass. some would spend time criticizing the president. i can understand why they might. but, frankly, in my view, my job is to show leadership where i can. to find partnership where i can. and to be tearless in working with anyone in the senate or house of representatives who has a good idea and willing to put something on the table to get americans back to work. most in delaware care less about partisanship than progress. neil: do joe biden ring
things we agree we have to act. neil: senator there is a lot of common ground for both parties. both of you are right, you can fine much to agree on, tax credit, incentives to get business hiring and the like, but, maybe because it speaks to the environment, nothing big, and i wonder, is that by design? or do you think collectively all of these incentives and credits and the things that businesses like added up will get them hiring? guest: well, it is our hope this broad package that includes provisions from access to capital and tax credit and invention, and immigration, and intellectual property protection, and regulation relief, that it includes a range of things, that although not a huge bill, not guarantee to pull us further into recovery, it will she that we have confidence in the american people and the american entrepreneur and the american small business person and it can help instill
bipartisan support. instead the president and the senate democrats this week are going to try and pass a bill that rays taxes on the people who create jobs permanently to pay for temporary programs that have proven not to work. that s a failed strategy. we need to get together behind a strategy that will take the country in a different direction. bill: the american people are left to figure out whether that is true or not. thank you for your time. 20 minutes past the hour. martha: president obama invokes god when criticizing the republicans and the job bill. we have more on that when we talk to a member of the prayer caucus. that s getting attention today. we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?
a role in this, and i m proud of it, is we started focusing on jobs and the economy, and we started showing the american people who s for creating jobs, such as this infrastructure bill and who s against it. the president to his credit has called out republicans on it, day in and day out. it s changing the whole political structure. the president s numbers are going up. let me give you one interesting one. in august, who is better at creating jobs and getting the economy going? which by the way is the number one thing america wants you to do. you know what it is today? 49 democrat, 34 republican. and if that keeps happening, and i hope it will, and i am trying to get us focused on job bill after job bill after job bill, even if they defeat it, because it takes a while to get the message through, to get the reality through. if that keeps happening, we will increase or majority in the senate and take back the house.