(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan was among the welcoming party for President Obama at the Asheville Regional Airport on Monday. Hagan said the President's American Jobs Act failed to pass in the Senate, but he may have the right idea by breaking the plan up into pieces and then presenting it to Congress that way.

"Some of the people might not have liked all of the proposals in the bill and if the President does break it up and if we can work together on certain pieces of it, I want to do whatever is possible on a bi-partisan basis to help this economy and help put people back to work," said Hagan.

She added that the President's jobs plan includes a lot of solutions to the nation's unemployment woes. "If we can hire close to 8,000 people in North Carolina to refurbish our schools, make them more energy efficient, put science labs in our schools, this is good for not only the students today, it's good for our future and it's good for the economy."

Hagan stressed that solving the unemployment problem in America has to be a bipartisan effort.

(Thanks to: WWNC)