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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blocked a vote on President Obama's jobs-creation bill Tuesday because he didn't have the votes, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Wednesday.

"I don't think he had the votes," Sessions said in a conference call with reporters.

Sessions said "more and more senators â€" more and more Democrats" are realizing that "just borrowing more to spend more" isn't solving the country's economic problems.

Sessions added that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) decision to try and force a vote on Obama's jobs plan showed that Republicans aren't dragging their feet on the legislation.

"I do think Sen. McConnell did achieve one thing … [which] was demonstrate that it was not the Republican senate that was choosing not to bring up the president's bill," Sessions said. "I thought it made a valuable point."

McConnell tried to call up Obama's jobs legislation Tuesday, but Reid b! locked the vote with a procedural maneuver.

Obama has been calling on Congress to pass his American Jobs Act since he unveiled it last month. The legislation would extend the payroll employee tax cut, create a national infrastructure bank and add infrastructure spending and unemployment insurance benefits.

Obama wants a vote on the bill in October, and Reid has said the legislation will be taken up in the Senate.

But so far it appears that Senate Democrats have not been able to round up the 60 votes likely needed to move forward with the bill. Democrats say they will have the votes to pass the legislation by month's end.