WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the U.S. House of Representatives scheduled to vote Wednesday on President Barack Obama's 'American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan,' the Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery said the time has come for U.S. Reps. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11), Leonard Lance (NJ-7), Frank LoBiondo (NJ-2) and Chris Smith (NJ-2) take and a stand on the Obama plan that will create or save three to four million jobs, strengthen our middle class, and improve the economy in the near and long term by making sound investments in state fiscal relief, health care, energy efficiency, transportation and schools. Identified by the Campaign as key votes, Reps. Frelinghuysen, Lance, LoBiondo and Smith have received scores of phone calls and emails urging them to put struggling out-of-work New Jersey families ahead of partisan gamesmanship by voting in favor of the Obama jobs plan.

Brad Woodhouse, President of Americans United for Change: "Just 48 hours remains before the U.S. House holds the most significant vote since the vote to authorize the war in Iraq, and the people of New Jersey need to know where their Representatives in Congress stand.

President Obama's jobs and economic recovery plan takes bold and immediate steps to address the worsening U.S. recession that has already hemorrhaged millions of jobs and threatens millions more if nothing is done It is our hope that Representatives Frelinghuysen, Lance, LoBiondo and Smith put the interests of struggling out-of-work New Jersey families first by supporting this plan that will put millions of middle-class Americans back to work quickly through solid and sound long-term investments in health care, energy efficiency, transportation and education. We can not afford to slow down the process with the same old petty partisanship and political gamesmanship -- the more we delay in sending this major jobs and economic recovery plan to the President's desk, the more Americans will lose their jobs and healthcare."

Launched on December 18th with nearly 50 events from coast to coast, the Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery is a coalition of more than 30 leading progressive groups and unions utilizing all the resources and techniques of a modern campaign to pass the Obama jobs plan. From grassroots and grass tops contacts, to phones, emails, web videos and paid advertising -- this $4-5 million campaign aims to pressure key and potentially deciding votes in Congress and to build a movement for an overwhelming victory for this package so that the American people have confidence in the plan and its ability to help turn our economy around.

To date, the following organizations have signed on the Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery Now: AFSCME, SEIU, AFLCIO, MoveOn.org Political Action, NEA, Americans United for Change, USAction, Campaign for America's Future, ACORN, Health Care for America Now, TrueMajority.org, Sierra Club, People for the American Way Foundation, 21st Century Democrats, American Postal Workers Union, Campaign for America's Future, Institute for Policy Studies - Cities for Progress, Community Action Partnership, Economic Policy Institute, Environment America, League of Conservation Voters, Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA), National Education Association, National Postal Mail Handlers Union, National Priorities Project, National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, National Women's Law Center, People for the American Way Foundation, Progressive Future, Roosevelt Institution, United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Voices - Women's Vote Action Fund, Working Group on Extreme Inequality, Young Democrats of America and YWCA