High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The American Jobs Act (S. 1549) (H. Doc. 112-53) and (H.R. 12) are bills proposed by U.S. President Barack Obama in a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress on September 8, 2011. He characterized it as non-controversial measures designed to get Americans back to work, and he repeatedly urged Congress to pass the bill "right away"; he also said that the bill would not add to the national deficit and would be fully paid for.