When it comes to the economy, residents of the Mid-Ohio Valley know what they hope to hear President Obama propose in his message to Congress.

"Good paying jobs, to get people back to work," says Ken Eaton. "Good union jobs, I'll put it that way."

"In manufacturing, probably," adds Melanie Corbitt. "Because those are the jobs that we've lost."

But Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) isn't convinced the president will propose the kind of manufacturing jobs which have kept west virginians and others working for decades.

"It's not something like Solyndra, where the government has all sorts of loans and grants to a company to get them propped up," Capito said in an interview Tuesday. "It has to come from an environment where the regulatory environment, the tax environment, the cost of health care, is competitive with the rest of the world."

Both Capito and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin have a familiar theme of their own: that the two parties need to work together to make any progress at all on the nation's concerns.

The senator says he heard that theme throughout a recent listening tour of the Mountain State.

"And more than anything," Manchin said in a statement, "they say it's time for their elected leaders of both parties to put politics aside and work together on commonsense solutions to our major challenges: creating jobs, putting our financial house in order, achieving energy independence, agreeing to meaningful tax reform so that our system is more fair, and leaving this country in better shape for the next generation."

Of the members of both houses of Congress who will be listening to the president's address, all of the House and part of the Senate face an election year along with the president. that includes Capito and Manchin.