US House of Representatives approved an 819-billion-dollar stimulus package of Obama's Administration
The vote came hours after Obama made a last-minute call for Republican votes, demanding "bold and swift" action to resurrect US jobs and arrest the US economy's brutal downward slide.
Obama enlisted the muscle of 13 top executives of major American companies in a meeting Wednesday to pile political pressure on Republicans as the House opened its debate and also warned American workers were watching closely.
"The workers who are returning home to tell their husbands and wives and children that they no longer have a job, and all those who live in fear that their job will be next on the cutting blocks, they need help now," Obama said.
"They are looking to Washington for action, bold and swift," Obama said in a short speech in the East Room of the White House.
The bill sailed through by a vote margin of 244-188, handing Obama a major victory and shifting the battle over how best to draw the US economy out of a paralyzing recession to the Senate.
Author:
Ksenia Kochneva
