Washington, Oct 12 : US President Barack Obama's 447 billion dollars Jobs Bill has failed to push its way through in the Senate despite White House's efforts at the 11th hour after falling short of acquiring 60 percent votes to end the debate.

According to Fox News, the bill received a simply majority of 51 votes, but fell short of the necessary 60 to end debate. Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jon Tester of Montana, both of them are facing tough re-election campaigns next year, were the only Democrats to vote against the bill.

Senator Jim Webb, Democrat-Virginia, had earlier said that although he intended to vote in favor of ending the Republican filibuster, he did not intend to support the bill if it reached a final vote.

Now that it has failed, both the House and Senate are expected to turn this week to approving U. S. trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, one of the few areas of agreement between Republicans and the administration on boosting the economy. And Senate Democrats are looking at ways of breaking the jobs bill into pieces that would be easier to pass, the report said.

Declaring had acknowledged last Thursday that the US Senate had faced a "moment of truth" when it voted on the bill, but later blamed the Republicans for creating obstacles on the way to stop the bill from being passed.

"Tonight''s vote is by no means the end of this fight. We will now work with Senator Reid to make sure that the individual proposals in this jobs bill get a vote as soon as possible," Obama said.

The White House Office of Management and Budget had said before Tuesday''s vote that bill would help put Americans back to work without adding a dime to the deficit. And the White House sent a letter from 16 Democratic governors urging congressional leaders to pass the bill. (ANI)