US President Barack Obama has promised a "very specific" plan next month to improve the flagging US economy.
In Iowa on day one of a rural Midwest bus tour, he said he would put forward the blueprint when Congress returned in September.
As President Obama spoke, his would-be 2012 Republican challengers blamed him for the flagging American economy.
With US unemployment jammed at just above 9%, jobs could well remain a major issue for voters in 2012.
Responding to a question in a town hall in Decorah, Iowa, on Monday evening, Mr Obama said: "I'll be putting forward when they [lawmakers] come back in September a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs and to control our deficit.
"And my attitude is - get it done."
'Lowering the rhetoric'
Mr Obama set off on Monday morning on a three-day swing through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
President Obama clashed with a member of the Tea Party in Iowa
The tour - in an imposing Secret Service armoured bus - is officially a White House event, although Republicans called it a campaign trip.
The BBC's Marcus George in Washington says Mr Obama is trying to reassert his leadership and, indirectly, shore up support in states that could make or break his campaign for a second term.
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