americanprogress.org - 2/9/2009
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Parsing the Economic Stimulus and Recovery Legislation By Michael Ettlinger | February 9, 2009 Read also: House Recovery Act Creates More Jobs than Senate Compromise The compromise legislation now before the Senate designed to garner the needed 60-vote supermajority for the American Recovery and ...
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Michael Grabell , ProPublica - February 10, 2009
9:00 am EST If all goes as expected today,
the Senate will pass an $838 billion economic stimulus plan that follows a compromise reached over the weekend. But before the package can go to President ...
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The Stimulus Bills: House vs. Senate
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americanprogress.org - 2/9/2009
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By Will Straw | February 9, 2009 Read
also: A Step Forward, a Stumble Back The Senate
compromise recovery and reinvestment legislation provides for 12 to 15 percent fewer jobs created or saved than the House-passed Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...
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House Recovery Act Creates More Jobs than Senate Compromise
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Introducing ‘Recession Reality’
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... . The House and Senate will then begin a negotiation to reconcile the differing versions of the bill before a final proposal is taken up, passed by both chambers, and sent to the President for his signature. Conservative obstructionism and “centrist” recalcitrance threaten to delay the passage of this vital legislation. ...
Business Groups Cheerlead Senate’s Ineffective Stimulus Tax Breaks
Wonk Room —
... package negotiated by Senate centrists from both parties…In a letter to senators last week, NAM highlighted a number of tax provisions, including a one-year patch of the Alternative Minimum Tax, research and development tax credits and a temporary tax credit for homebuyers.
The business groups may sense victory, but the measure they are cheerleading would have very little stimulative effect. The AMT patch is a yearly Congressional ritual that provides no stimulus, while the home-buyers credit amounts to a “house-flipping ...
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