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with unemployment above 8%. jon: iowa has six electoral votes up for grabs. it has a good track record picking the eventual president. six in the last eight elections. it voted for the democrat more than half the time. but the economy is going to play a big role in this election. according to the latest quinnepiac polls of key battleground states, nearly half the voters surveyed in colorado, virginia, and wisconsin rate the economy as the top issue. more than a third of those surveyed say they believe the economy is getting worse and not better. jenna: political war of words over welfare reform also one of our big stories today spreading from the campaign trail to capitol hill as governor mitt romney open as new line of attack on that, accusing the president of trying to gut the welfare reform law passed in 1996 by then president clinton. the president s campaign is rejecting this charge, releasing a new ad challenging it, but in the meantime, former president bill clinton getting invo
involved. we need to figure some of this out. jim angle with us, chief national correspondent down in washington and he has more. jim? reporter: you re right, we do have to figure this out, jenna. republicans in both houses introduced legislation to prevent the obama administration from using waivers to reduce work requirements in the ninth six welfare reform law. listen. for them to just unilaterally change the law, they can t do that. reporter: representative tom graves of georgia says this is clearly another example of the president expanding his powers and expanding the powers of an agency creating an environment of dependency is certainly a hallmark he says of his administration. now what started all this was a july 12th memo from the health and human services department which it claimed it had, quote, the authority to waive complyness and allow states to try other methods, including quote, definition of work activities and engagement.