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President Obama Takes American Jobs Act on the Road

President Obama headed to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's hometown of Richmond, Va., on Friday to begin his sales pitch of the $447 billion American Jobs Act proposal that he laid out in a prime-time speech before a joint session of Congress on Thursday. Ray Suarez reports.

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