angrybear.blogspot.com - 2/4/2009
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Well the gloves came off this morning. What GOP Leaders deem wasteful in Senate stimulus bill STORY HIGHLIGHTS House Republicans unveil list of "wasteful" Senate stimulus spending Stimulus bill passed in the House without any Republican support One provision: A $246 million tax break for ...
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Republicans still dislike stimulus
washingtonmonthly.com 1/23/2009 — REPUBLICANS STILL DISLIKE STIMULUS.... Barack Obama has prioritized bipartisan support for an economic stimulus package. But as predicted, it's very difficult to pass a meaningful, effective bill that draws support from congressional Republicans. The ...
Bipartisanship on the stimulus bill won't happen
dailykos.com 1/24/2009 — Why does Obama keep thinking that "appealing for bipartisanship" will move a single Republican vote? For Republicans, the calculus is simple: If the stimulus plan succeeds, Obama and the Democratic Congress will get all the credit. If the ...
House Stimulus Bill (FULL TEXT)
huffingtonpost.com 1/24/2009 — The 647-page House stimulus package scored the coveted designation of H.R. 1, which the Speaker reserves for her highest legislative or symbolic priority. The bill is a combination of legislation that moved this week through the Ways and Means, ...
Somebody Tell John McCain He Lost The Election
oliverwillis.com 1/26/2009 — McCain wants a rewrite of the stimulus bill? Off the top of my head I can think of 69 million reasons why John McCain doesn’t get a rewrite of the stimulus bill.
Rail in the Stimulus
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/26/2009 —
Rep Peter DeFazio has authored an amendment that would increase the level of rail funding in the stimulus bill. It’s an excellent idea. Funds for highway repairs are a fine use of stimulus money, but insofar as we’re investing in new ...
That Stimulus Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 1/26/2009 — Watching the Sunday political shows today was certainly discouraging. It is perfectly clear that essentially no economic thinking underlies the stimulus bill that will move through the House next week. It's simply seen by the Democratic leadership as ...
Any Takers For a Green Stimulus? Senate Bill Lowballs Mass Transit
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/26/2009 — We've been talking about this for a while now , but mass transit is getting woefully little attention in the economic recovery proposals released so far by Democrats.
The House's stimulus bill, which is slated for a final vote on Wednesday, ...
Scenes From a Stimulus Battle, Part 4
blogs.abcnews.com 1/28/2009 — House Republicans left their meeting with President Obama today largely opposed to the stimulus bill that the House will vote upon tomorrow. But some members of the GOP leadership expressed optimism that after the bill is changed in the Senate...
"Overwhelming" GOP Opposition to Stimulus Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 1/28/2009 — Just talked to a very clued-in Republican on the Hill. This person wouldn't predict a unanimous Republican vote against the Democratic stimulus package, but said there would be "minimal" GOP support of the bill. "I don't know if it will be unanimous, ...
Read the Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 1/28/2009 — Drudge is highlighting a section in the Democratic stimulus bill allocating $335 million for the prevention of sexually-transmitted and other communicable diseases. But just looking at the part of the bill concerning some of the "stimulus" money that ...
NY Times: Stimulus bill to pass on partisan lines
agonist.org 1/29/2009 — Stimulus bill to pass on partisan lines:
Hours before the House was expected to approve his proposed $825 billion program, largely along partisan lines, Mr. Obama tried to convey his message far beyond the corridors of the Capitol and into ...
Bipartisanship And The Stimulus
washingtonmonthly.com 1/29/2009 — Bipartisanship And The Stimulus As Steve noted earlier, the stimulus bill passed the House without a single Republican vote. I'm glad it passed. I'm also glad that Obama tried as hard as he did to get bipartisan support, and I...
Stimulus Passes House With NO Republican Support -- Zip, Zilch, Nada
fivethirtyeight.com 1/29/2009 — The House version of the $819 billion stimulus bill just passed 244-188. But in a minor surprise, the bill apparently passed without ANY Republican member voting for it. Twelve Democrats voted against the bill, meanwhile, based on the C-SPAN tally. So ...
John Campbell: The Big Spending Package
townhall.com 1/29/2009 — Last night, the House of Representatives passed a "so-called" stimulus bill. In my previous posting I explained why this bill is not and will not be stimulative. In fact I am not even calling it a stimulus bill, I am...
Stimulus-Response
righteousrantings.blogspot.com 1/30/2009 — A reaction to the passing of the Stimulus Bill.
Conn. GOP Gov. Pushed For Stimulus, Says Himes
briefingroom.thehill.com 1/30/2009 — Freshman Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said that his state's Republican governor, M. Jodi Rell, called her state's Democratic House members to offer her support for the stimulus bill.
Rell phoned Himes on Wednesday before the House voted on the stimulus to ...
Fixing the Stimulus Bill
swampland.blogs.time.com 2/1/2009 — Most of the Republican arguments against the stimulus bill have been sore loserism and cheesy politics at the least appropriate time--a moment of crisis. And many of the arguments Christopher Caldwell makes in this piece reflect the defects of the ...
The Future of the Stimulus
corner.nationalreview.com 2/2/2009 — Have spent some time today talking to Republican and Democratic members of the Senate, as well as political strategists, about what is coming with the stimulus bill. The first thing is that the Republican critique of the bill, as passed by the House, ...
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