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Bond rating to aaa. the council has for a long time worked together in nonpartisan way to get things done. we re very goal oriented. we try to stick to workmanship making things happened here. we re focused on economic development. reporter: republican mayor, knox white said the city spent $13 until to create downtown park surrounding a natural water fall. that attracted $150 million in private investments over the next two years. i don t think the government tries so much to influence what is done as much as they try to help those things that the go in the right direction. reporter: that unified economic vision crosses party lines according to city council woman jill littlejohn, a democrat. we don t worry about the political lines or the biggest developer. we look at what is best for residents we have here within the city. reporter: whether between the public second or the private sector or democrats and republicans participations appear to work for the city of ....
plan, one on the decifit. to talk about the jobs plan first t. will include a couple of things, tax cuts, something called an infrastructure bank to encourage construction down the road and also help for the long term unemployed. white house officials say it won t just be a rehash of what we ve heard mr. obama pushing over the last month or so and won t be a rehash of what we re hearing during this tour in illinois today, that these will be fresh ideas, although republicans do seem a bit doubtful about that. the president will submit that second plan, that decifit plan, to the supercommittee in congress also sometime once they return from the recess, and it will ask them to shave off more than the $1.5 trillion in decifits over the ten years that they ve been tasked to do. after the speech in september, after he submits both of these plans, then he s going to hit the road, he s going to be taking it straight to the voters, trying to get them on his side and trying to ge ....
ahead of party, and that has to stop. our economy cannot afford it. [applause] our economy can t afford it. jenna: caroline shively is live at the white house. caroline, we really don t know too much about the big announcement. we do know early september. but any details about the plan yet? reporter: we re learning a little, jenna, about the jobs plan and also that there will be a second plan, one on the decifit. to talk about the jobs plan first t. will include a couple of things, tax cuts, something called an infrastructure bank to encourage construction down the road and also help for the long term unemployed. white house officials say it won t just be a rehash of what we ve heard mr. obama pushing over the last month or so and won t be a rehash of what we re hearing during this tour in illinois today, that these will be fresh ideas, although republicans do seem a bit doubtful about that. the president will submit that second plan, that decifit plan, to the superco ....