One important thing to remember about President Barack Obama‘s jobs bill is that it relies not only on Congress passing it but on the newly formed super committee to help pay for it. 

The president is asking the 12-member congressional committee to overshoot its required $1.5 trillion in cuts, bringing total cuts closer to about $1.9 trillion.

In other words, the jobs plan is inextricably tied to the super committee’s task. That link was not lost on Rep. Colleen Hanabusa when we caught up with her after Obama’s speech Thursday night. 

“Overlaying everything else is, of course, the debt ceiling legislation and everything that’s in that,” Hanabusa told DC808. “That’s including the ability of the super committee to come up with the necessary cuts.”

The stakes are already high. Drastic automatic cuts take effect if the super committee fails on the task already at hand. 

“I think we’re going to need to see how all of it is going to interface,” Hanabusa said. “I don’t think it can be in isolation. It’s got to be together. No matter what is said or what is proposed, given the fact that we have the whole (automatic cuts) issue plus the super committee, we have to look at that.”