President Barack Obama is pushing for a new jobs bill because he believes America's jobless numbers are still too high. But how does his push for jobs spending come up against the Federal Reserve's move to potentially raise interest rates?

In this week's Washington Report on WQXR, David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, joins Brian Zumhagen in the WNYC newsroom to shed some light on this matter.

Sanger also talks about the televised health care reform meeting on President Obama's schedule this week, as well as Toyota's congressional safety hearing and Week 2 of the joint NATO-Afghan offensive in Marja, Afghanistan.