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WASHINGTON: Americans angry at their political leaders over double-digit unemployment may have had an "unrealistic expectation" that Washington could quickly revive the US economy, a top US lawmaker said Tuesday.
"The American public is angry and anxious," Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a key ally of President Barack Obama, told reporters after White House talks on ways to boost job creation.
"They are angry because of the situation in which America finds itself, they are angry because they have not seen us come up with solutions that seem to have made a short-term impact," he said.
"I think that was probably an unrealistic expectation. But it was not an unrealistic expectation to have us working in a bipartisan fashion to get there," said Hoyer.
Hoyer, the number two House Democrat, said he was "hopeful" Obama's Republicans foes would support an election-year jobs bill but said he only "heard a tip of the hat to working together" in the White House talks.
"I am hopeful that the Republicans won't simply take the anxiety of the American public as a political opportunity to ensure failure in meeting these challenges and problems, that they will see it as an opportunity to work together," he said.
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