US President Barack Obama (C) makes remarks after touring a General Motors Auto plant in Hamtramck, Michigan. Obama, speaking to workers at a Chrysler plant, said that four consecutive quarters of US economic growth was a AFP - President Barack Obama took to the wheel of a new electric car Friday on a Detroit-area tour of the revitalized auto industry, touting his economic policies but urging the need to do more.


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U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to depart Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, for a day trip to Detroit, July 30, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday he welcomed news that the U.S. economy grew by 2.4 percent in the second quarter, but said more work was needed to increase that growth rate and generate jobs.


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President Barack Obama delivers remarks during his visit to the Jefferson North Chrysler Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010, where the Jeep Grand Cherokee is assembled. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama on Friday heralded the recent turnaround for U.S. automakers, arguing that thousands of jobs and increased production vindicate his unpopular decision to bailout the industry.


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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington in this January 20, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsReuters - Senate Republicans blocked a $30-billion plan to help community banks boost lending to small businesses, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's election-year battle to reduce unemployment.


President Barack Obama, center, during his guest appearance on ABC's television show 'The View' in New York, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Sitting with Obama are Barbara Walters,  left, and Joy Behar, right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama said the government will recover all the taxpayer money his administration provided to bail out the auto industry last year.


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AP - Tire inventories dwindled during the recession with money so tight. J.P. Morgan analyst Himanshu Patel asked Goodyear executives on Thursday to discuss the commercial truck inventory situation. Goodyear's president and CEO, Richard J. Kramer, said rebuilding inventories would provide a sales opportunity.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans blocked a $30-billion plan to help community banks boost lending to small businesses, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's election-year battle to reduce unemployment.


President Barack Obama addresses the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Challenging civil rights organizations and teachers' unions that have criticized his education policies, President Barack Obama said Thursday that minority students have the most to gain from overhauling the nation's schools.


President Barack Obama delivers remarks following his meeting with small business owners, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J,. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast his latest economic pitch as a matter of patriotism, urging the Senate to ditch its partisan mode at least long enough to pass a package of tax cuts and loan relief for small businesses. "This is as American as apple pie," the president said.


U.S. President Barack Obama makes remarks about the Senate campaign finance reform vote in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington July 26, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday kept up his push for U.S. Senate approval of a $30 billion small-business lending package he said would generate jobs, and urged Republicans to stop blocking the plan for political gain.