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President Obama's Bus Tour of the Heartland -- PICTURES

By National Journal staff

Updated: August 18, 2011 | 9:51 a.m.
August 15, 2011 | 1:48 p.m.

US President Barack Obama (C) walks to his bus as he arrives in Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Minnesota, August 15, 2011, where he is to begin his three-day bus tour in the Midwest centering on ways to grow the economy. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) (JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

President Obama returned from a three-day bus tour of Midwestern towns on Wednesday evening, after stopping in five towns to discuss the rural economy and the administration's efforts to create jobs in wake of the debt-ceiling crisis.

Follow Obama's travels this week across southern Minnesota, northern and eastern Iowa, and northwestern Illinois.

(RELATED: In the Heartland, Obama Knocks GOP | Obama Sounds Like Bush on Bus Tour When Blaming Congress)

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