House speaker to discuss Obama jobs bill today in Ohio

CINCINNATI (AP) — Ahead of President Barack Obama’s planned visit, House Speaker John Boehner plans to talk later today about the Republican version of jobs creation in a lunch speech in Cincinnati.

The president will come to Cincinnati on Thursday to see the Brent Spence Bridge, the outdated span over the Ohio River he has highlighted as an example of a badly needed, jobs-creating infrastructure project.

Boehner’s office says the speaker will talk about the GOP approach to jobs creation, Obama’s plan, and what Boehner has described as opportunities to find “common ground.”

He will speak at a luncheon at the University of Cincinnati.

Boehner lives in the northern Cincinnati suburb of West Chester, representing a southwest Ohio district that begins just north of the city.