With a new TV ad, President Barack Obamas campaign is putting more muscle into its effort to paint Mitt Romneys tenure as Massachusetts governor as a failure on job creation.
Two U.S. senators Sunday said Congress should pass a major deficit bill faster than currently planned to help spur an ailing American economic recovery most recently marred by a bad jobs report.
Friday's weak jobs report continued to fuel sparring between Democrats and Republicans through the weekend, with surrogates for the rival presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney trading accusations on a Sunday morning talk show.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said he would support a federal budget deal that includes $1 in tax increases for every $10 in spending cuts, as a way of curbing deficits.
Obama and Romney struck contrasting tones on the European debt crisis on Friday in public appearances just minutes apart as they seized on a new report on the U.S. job market to criticize the others party and policies.
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