What is Labor Day

In a speech today Labor Day in Milwaukee, Obama will be president called for an investment of 50 billion dollars into transportation projects to stimulate the economy and public confidence, officials at the White House said.

The costs would come over the next six years, but it would take Congress to approve an initial investment of 50 billion dollars. The plan is to rebuild 15.000 miles of roads, construct and maintain 4.000 miles of railway and to rehabilitate or rebuild 150 miles of airport runways.

But with only four weeks after the session of Congress and two months before polling day, the White House has acknowledged that to win quick approval of the measure will be difficult.

The overall plan: This is part of a broad economic plan Obama unveiled in a speech Wednesday in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Community College.

The proposals are "intended to show that Democrats intend to take the low growth that does not involve massive new spending programs," The Times, John Harwood wrote. "They also seek to undermine the arguments Republicans and Democrats are hostile to entrepreneurs."

Biden in Ohio: Meanwhile, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., will spend the day in Toledo, his second trip to the city in just two weeks and the third in Ohio this summer.

Indiana is not independent if the Republicans are not going to let a Democrat from Indiana, Representative Joe Donnelly, to cast himself as an independent. It is the first objective of the National Republican Campaign Committee of the general election. Group independent expenditure arm has started broadcasting its first television advertisement against Mr. Donnelly today, noting that the Democratic vote in South Bend with Nancy Pelosi 88 percent of the time.

California: California Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Jerry Brown, has launched its first television ad of competition today, a place with the passage of the mandate of Mr Brown as governor in the 1970s and early 80s.

Byrd Memorial to the attack: The family of the late Robert C. Byrd John slammed races, the Republican running for the seat of Mr. Byrd in West Virginia, to put an attack ad seeking to link Governor Joe Manchin with Mr. Obama gives a picture of two Democrats at the ceremony marking the death of M . Byrd in June, The Associated Press reported.

C Street Response: In the middle of a winter night in 2008, four of Senator John Ensign closest friends - Senator Tom Coburn and Representative Zach Wamp and Bart Stupak two democratic representatives and Mike Doyle - woke up one Mr. Ensign sleeping bag bed for an intervention. They were to end the affair with the Nevada Republican wife of one of his aides. The New Yorker goes inside C Street.