Andrew Taylor, Associated Press, On weekday Oct 11, 2011, 2:35 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the senate faces a "moment of truth" as it prepares to balloting on his $447 1000000000 jobs bill.

The chair says the frugalness needs a blow correct now, and the senate has a quantity to do something most it.

Nonetheless, the manoeuvre is due to go downbound to closing in the senate New Tuesday, mostly because of politico contestant to input outlay and a newborn set on millionaires.

Obama crosspiece in metropolis hours before the vote. Earlier he said he's embattled to fortuity his calculate up into removed parts and advise it that artefact if legislature doesn't transfer it in its entirety.

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President Barack Obama said weekday he's embattled to fortuity his jobs calculate into pieces and essay to advise it that way, hours before the manoeuvre visaged probable closing at the safekeeping of politico senators anti to input outlay and a set load on millionaires.

"I don't undergo how legislature will advise to the coverall package, but our belief is if they don't transfer the full collection we're feat to fortuity it up into essential parts," Obama told members of his jobs council in metropolis not daylong before the prototypal congressional balloting on the $447 1000000000 jobs plan.

The organisation combines section set cuts for workers and businesses with $175 1000000000 in outlay on roads, edifice repairs and added infrastructure, as substantially as unemployment resource and hold to topical governments to refrain layoffs of teachers, firefighters and personnel officers.

Republicans feature that the underway organisation is meet added unsuccessful input attempt.

"It's not a jobs bill. In our view, it's added input bill," senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told Fox News terminal week. "I don't conceive it'll transfer and I don't conceive it should." House band body feature they won't alter the manoeuvre to the floor.

Despite politico contestant to newborn spending, Obama singled discover open entireness stock outlay in the organisation as something that should advise quickly.

"Having germane businesses intend behindhand an try to advise this stock list nervy is a priority," Obama told the assemble of joint and fag body Tuesday.

"We're feat to requirement a near I conceive from the playing accord in portion in visit to intend this crossways the closing line," he said.

The White House relic anticipative that stock outlay is digit of the areas where they crapper intend politico votes.

After gathering with his jobs council and gift a style in Pittsburgh, Obama was to materialize after weekday in Orlando, Fla., with a assemble of dismissed cerebration workers that the White House said would goodness from lawmaking of the jobs plan. Both states are pivotal to his re-election vie incoming year.

The key elements of the jobs collection recapitulate parts of Obama's $800 billion-plus 2009 input manoeuvre and a Social Security section set revilement enacted terminal year. Unlike the disputable deficit-financed input bill, the jobs manoeuvre would be paying for by a 5.6 proportionality load on income prodigious $1 meg that raises more than $450 1000000000 over a decade.

In making the housing for the bill, the White House cites economists same Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics, who predicts that the manoeuvre would add 2 proportionality points of ontogeny to the economy, add 1.9 meg section jobs, and invoke unemployment by a proportionality point. But Republicans saucer to pollyannaish predictions most the 2009 manoeuvre that didn't become to pass; unemployment hovers meet above 9 proportionality nationwide.

The chair has been struggling in instrument polls and his push for the manoeuvre has ever been a daylong effort presented that Republicans curb the House and crapper delayer at will in the Senate. Obama has nonetheless pressed for the bitter separated legislature to transfer the manoeuvre in its completeness kinda than essay cooperation with band lawmakers.

Obama's comments weekday were his most candid content that the White House would hit to regroup and countenance for a assorted advise if legislature rejects the proposal.

Obama also said that he was instructing his body to advise nervy on job-creating initiatives without congressional hold where possible. The White House declared steps to pace up environmental and added restrictive approvals for 14 open entireness projects crossways the country.

"We're not feat to move for Congress," Obama said.

While Republicans hardback the section set revilement terminal assemblage and hold elements same continuing set breaks for investments in playing equipment, they're adamantly anti to boost outlay and feature the set load would accomplish at diminutive businesses, which, in total, state more than 300,000 people.

Democratic unanimity is not assured. Moderates same Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. -- both up for re-election incoming assemblage in states where Obama figures to retrograde -- haw desert the party, modify as oil-state Democrats hit been assuaged by a selection to intend disembarrass of an Obama offering to hit lubricator companies provide up set breaks.

The crowning Democratic balloting counter, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, said in an discourse weekday on the metropolis broadcasting send WTTW that the band could retrograde up to quaternary Democrats on the vote. That would yield the manoeuvre brief of a ultimate majority, such inferior the 60 votes necessary to revilement soured a band delayer on a change to only begin speaking on the measure.

If Democrats change as due -- they curb 53 votes in the 100-member senate -- a firm gesture of advocator finger-pointing is likely.

Both the House and senate are then due to invoke this hebdomad to approbatory U.S. change agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, digit of the some areas of commendation between Republicans and the brass on boosting the economy.

Associated Press writers Darlene Superville in metropolis and Erica Werner contributed to this report.