Tag: American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
Senate Recovery Bill Text
PDF of the Senate Version — S. 336. The Huffington Post has an embeddable copy of the bill (via docstoc) at their site, and they are asking for volunteers to compare the Senate Bill and HB1 as passed to begin a full scale search for the differences. If you have time and the inclination, go […]
Recovery Deal
According to the NYT (and the BBC who is reporting this now), the Dem leadership plus the so-called moderate group reached a deal on the recovery package. As of now, there aren’t many details and no clear info on when a vote will be taken. Senator Kennedy has returned to DC to vote on this, […]
More Like This Please!
President Obama gives a rousing reminder of what the Congress should be doing and what the stakes are: (in two parts) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJDwbfbpRnQ[/youtube]
Women and Children First
Followed by cops and firefighters. You can screw science, as well. But rest easy, defense spending will increase under the latest stimulus plan changes. Total Reductions: $80 billion Eliminations: Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western Area […]
Talking Point Smackdown — Honeybees!
One of the resident wingnuts brought up a portion of the recovery package that is supposed to support honeybees — of course, you consider the source and presume that you are dealing with more manufactured outrage over something silly. Little did I know. Yesterday evening, I found out exactly what she was talking about (column […]
This is the PROBLEM – Updated!
How do you justify calling on the Senate to oppose an Economic Recovery Bill that hasn’t even been debated/amended yet? House Republicans are pushing their Senate colleagues to stand unanimously against President Obama’s stimulus package, as they themselves did in the lower chamber last week. “We are urging our Senate colleagues to join every House […]
Zero is an Easy Number to Remember
At a time when Americans are looking to their government to do something, doing nothing strikes me as political suicide. And that’s exactly what Republicans did yesterday – Nothing. Even worse, they did “nothing” in lockstep. And, no matter how many politicians and pundits they trot out to defend their position only one message will […]
Job Impact Report
President-Elect Obama mentions in his weekly video address the Job Impact Report. And here is Christine Roehmer, the Chair-designate for the Council of Economic Adviser, discussing the report. I have yet a chance to read this report, but I wanted to get this out here for all of you to see. So while I take […]
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