Congress To-Do List
![President Obama's Progress on Creating Jobs](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121028225141im_/http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/todo/img/sidebar/RightRailTitle.png)
- 4.5 million private sector jobs created in the last 29 months
- 532,000 manufacturing jobs created since January 2010
- Sign 18 tax cuts to help small businesses expand and hire
- Rescue the American auto industry from collapse
- Keep 400,000 teachers in the classroom
- Provide tax credits to businesses that hire unemployed veterans
- Put construction workers back to work repairing roads, bridges and railways
- Open new markets for American exports to help American businesses hire and grow
- Keep police officers, firefighters and other first responders on the job
- Reform unemployment to train job seekers with the skills they need to find a good job
- Make progress toward doubling exports between 2009 and 2014 to support 2 million American jobs
- Do more to create jobs and help the middle class
![President Obama Can't Do This Alone, Congress Must Act](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121028225141im_/http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/todo/img/sidebar/RightRailCallout.png)