Saturday Speeches: Pushing Agendas [VIDEO]

Sparring over job creation and the middle class continue to dominate the presidential and Republican weekly radio and internet addresses.

President Barack Obama today pressed congressional Republicans to approve his pick to head a new consumer watchdog office to protect middle-class Americans from deceptive business practices.

Republicans have blocked the appointment. Obama also reiterated his push for congressional Republicans to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut.

Meanwhile, Republicans pushed their own recipe which ties an extension of the payroll tax and extended unemployment benefits to a provision that jump-starts work on a pipeline to carry oil from Canada to Texas. Obama wants it delayed.

House Speaker John Boehner says the oil pipeline is one of those jobs projects that Obama claims Americans can't wait for any longer.

Boehner says this is no time for "my-way-or-the-highway theatrics."