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Nelson, Collins Slash Education Funding in Stimulus While Touting Stimulus’ Boost to Education
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/9/2009
Nelson, Collins Slash Education Funding in Stimulus While Touting Stimulus’ Boost to Education
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I’m really shocked by the extent to which the architects of the Senate cuts to the recovery package aren’t being made to offer any kind of justification for their actions. And in the absence of pressure, they certainly aren’t doing it of their own accord. I wanted to see, ...
foxnews.com - 2/7/2009
GOP Senators Risk Political Backlash Over Support of Stimulus Bill - Presidential Politics | ...
— foxnews.com — Until Friday, President Obama's plea for bipartisanship support of his costly plan for stimulating the economy mostly... had fallen on deaf GOP ears, but that changed when three Republican moderates pledged their support. In doing so, Sens. Susan Collins ... (more) GOP Senators Risk Political Backlash Over Support of ...

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thehill.com - 2/7/2009
Senate deal scales back pricetag of economic stimulus
— thehill.com — The Senate on Friday took a significant step toward passing a scaled-back economic stimulus plan as Democratic... leaders brokered a deal with three key Republicans. The fast-moving developments capped a day of fits and starts, ending with the White ... (more) Senate deal scales back pricetag of economic stimulus

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thehill.com - 2/9/2009
Senators pressure Pelosi on stimulus
— thehill.com — Senators are pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to embrace most of the stimulus bill they hope to pass... early next week, claiming that adopting too many House provisions will doom the measure in the upper chamber. After two years of showdowns with then ... (more) Senators pressure Pelosi on stimulus

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Firedoglake:  Early Morning Swim

Ross Douthat:  The Trouble With Centrism

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:  Nelson Collins Amendment To Stimulus Gets Vote Tuesday

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Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — ... Selling the stimulus. The Shrill One isn't happy. But was this the best we can get? Just don't tell that to the states. Thanks, Ben and Susan! Those damned automakers unions strike again. Revolt of the liberals? Coultergeist probed. Steele's party line: blame the Democrats.

The Trouble With Centrism
Ross Douthat — ... angry, and not without reason. You can imagine a world in which "centrist" Senators used their awesome deal-making powers to forge compromises that incorporate ideas from the left and right alike. A world in which moderate "gangs," in David Brooks' ...

Nelson Collins Amendment To Stimulus Gets Vote Tuesday
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... The deal cuts about $100 billion from the economic stimulus package. Education spending has been been slashed. Programs involving national security for the Health and Human Services, State and Homeland Security departments ...

Nelson Collins Amendment To Stimulus Gets Vote Tuesday
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The deal cuts about $100 billion from the economic stimulus package. Education spending has been been slashed. Programs involving national security for the Health and Human Services, State and Homeland Security departments ...

Sen. Nelson: Senate’s compromise bill has ‘adjustments downward,’ not ‘cuts.’
Think Progress — ... ” such as Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Ben Nelson (R-NE), who fashioned the Senate’s compromise recovery legislation. That “compromise” includes slashing aid to schools and states that was originally in the House package. Today on MSNBC, Nelson played semantics, claiming that the “cuts” were really just “adjustments downward”: ...

2/9: Nice Job, Centrists!
Blogometer — ... angry , and not without reason. You can imagine a world in which 'centrist' Senators used their awesome deal-making powers to forge compromises that incorporate ideas from the left and right alike. [...] But that's not the world we live in. In this world, centrist Senators exist to take politics as usual -- whether ...

‘Bacon-Trimmers’ Nelson And Collins Protect $50 Billion In Nuclear Pork
Wonk Room — ... Despite Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-NE) claim that he, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and other centrists “trimmed the fat, fried the bacon, and milked the sacred cows” to deliver a shrunken economic recovery package, they ...

Ben Nelson’s Incoherent Defense Of Slashing School Construction Funds
Think Progress — ... What’s more, as Matthew Yglesias pointed out yesterday, Nelson and Collins touted their plan’s education funding, specifically highlighting their funding for “special education” — two days before Nelson slammed special education as an unfunded mandate and derided Washington funding of education. All this while they CUT $7.5 billion in funding to help states ...

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Can The Stimulus Be Passed Without Cuts?
openleft.com 2/6/2009 — Right now, the Senate is working on a "compromise" economic recovery package . The twenty or so members of the Collins-Nelson gang are working to strip about $100 billion in spending (the exact number remains in flux), of the nearly $600 billion, out ...
Talking Points Memo | Collins-Nelson Group Wants Upwards Of $80B Slashed From Stimulus
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/5/2009 — Sens. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have come up with a list of $77.9 billion about $100 billion* in programs they want slashed from the stimulus package, according to a working draft of a staff paper outlining the cuts. Among the biggest ...
New ‘Gang of Moderates’ cuts target women and children again.
thinkprogress.org 2/7/2009 — Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that a list of items the so-called “centrist” Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) have proposed cutting from the economic recovery package would disproportionately affect women and children . These cuts ...
Sens. Nelson And Collins Propose Slashing Almost $80 Billion From Stimulus, With Big Cuts In Education
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 2/5/2009 — As Igor Volsky laid out earlier , Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) are circulating a series of proposed cuts to the economic stimulus package. According to Nelson spokesperson Clay Westrope, “Senator Nelson feels like this ...
What Does The ‘Gang Of Moderates’ Gain By Slashing Education Funding In The Stimulus?
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 2/9/2009 — As The Wonk Room noted yesterday , Sens. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are attempting to craft a “compromise” on the economic stimulus package. This compromise entails making devastating cuts to the proposed education ...
The Nelson-Collins War On Green Jobs
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 2/6/2009 — Sens. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (D-ME) are leading a bipartisan effort in the Senate to strip hundreds of billions of dollars from the economic recovery plan, which makes strong, job-creating investments in the public welfare, from health ...
It ain't fearmongering if it's true
washingtonmonthly.com 2/9/2009 — IT AIN'T FEARMONGERING IF IT'S TRUE.... Just today, the LA Times has a good report on the unprecedented pressure on state budgets right now -- pressure that will not be alleviated by the federal recovery plan because Sens. Collins &...
Bipartisanship And The Stimulus
obsidianwings.blogs.com 2/5/2009 — by hilzoy From the NYT : " Without a single Republican vote, President Obama won House approval on Wednesday for an $819 billion economic recovery plan as Congressional Democrats sought to temper their own differences over the ...
‘Centrist’ Economic Recovery Package Disproportionately Cuts Programs For Women And Children
thinkprogress.org 2/6/2009 — Conservatives opposed to the Democratic economic recovery package have been voicing their complaints by calling out individual programs they believe to be wasteful. For example, last month on the House bill, conservatives specifically targeted ...
Supporters Of $1.3 Trillion Bush Tax Cuts In 2001 Now Call $900 Billion Recovery Plan Billion ‘Too Much’
thinkprogress.org 2/8/2009 — As the senate version of the economic recovery package makes its way through Congress , a significant (though misguided ) criticism of the package from Senate Republicans is that it is “ too big .” For example, Senate Minority Leader ...
Lieberman: Republicans In The ‘Gang Of Moderates’ Are ‘Heroes,’ Deserve The ‘Congressional Medal Of Honor’
thinkprogress.org 2/9/2009 — Today in his town hall address in Elkhart, IN, President Obama criticized heavy cuts to education funding in the Senate’s economic recovery package crafted by the so-called “Gang of Moderates.” “I’ll be honest with you, ...
Obama On Lessons Learned: I Should Have Started With No Tax Cuts And Let GOP Take Credit For Them
thinkprogress.org 2/10/2009 — At tonight’s White House press conference, NPR’s Mara Liasson asked President Obama what lessons he has learned through the process of negotiating with Republicans over the economic recovery package. Obama explained there’s a lot of ...
Limbaugh, Hannity ignore '80's interest rate cuts in prescribing Reaganesque tax cuts to end recession — Media Matters for America - Latest Items
In recent discussions of the economic recovery package supported by President Obama, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have repeatedly claimed that President Reagan's tax cuts were responsible for ending the recession in the early 1980s, suggesting that tax cuts, and not government spending, ...
Lieberman: Republican Moderates Deserve "Congressional Medal Of Honor" For Stimulus Cuts — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Today in his town hall address in Elkhart, IN, President Obama criticized heavy cuts to education funding in the Senate's economic recovery package crafted by the so-called "Gang of Moderates." "I'll be honest with you, the Senate version cut a lot of these education dollars," said Obama. "I ...
Lieberman: Republican Moderates Deserve "Congressional Medal Of Honor" For Stimulus Cuts — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Today in his town hall address in Elkhart, IN, President Obama criticized heavy cuts to education funding in the Senate's economic recovery package crafted by the so-called "Gang of Moderates." "I'll be honest with you, the Senate version cut a lot of these education dollars," said Obama. "I ...
EPI Speak, You Listen — Obsidian Wings
by publius I incorporate by reference everything written in this EPI post . The nickel version is that the Nelson/Collins amendment removed some of the most stimulative provisions of the entire bill. Take it away boys: The bipartisan amendment to the Senate recovery plan eliminates several ...
Supporters Of $1.3 Trillion Bush Tax Cuts In 2001 Now Call $900 Billion Recovery Plan Billion ‘Too Much’ — The Hollywood Liberal
Supporters Of $1.3 Trillion Bush Tax Cuts In 2001 Now Call $900 Billion Recovery Plan Billion ‘Too Much’ As the senate version of the economic recovery package makes its way through Congress, a significant (though misguided) criticism of the package from Senate Republicans is that it is “too ...
Senate centrists’ plan = 600,000 fewer jobs. — Think Progress
The Senate “centrists,” led by Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (R-NE), are cheering the fact that they’ve cut $86 billion in spending from the economy recovery package. “ Spending for the states and education took the biggest hit, compared with the House bill. State ...
Nelson/Collins Group Stimulus Changes: Yes To More Defense Spending, No To Child Nutrition — Firedoglake
Greg Sargent has the latest list of cuts to the stimulus package by the Nelson/Collins group: Total Reductions: $80 billion Eliminations: Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast ...
Latest Stimulus Cuts: Head Start, Food Stamps, Public Transit — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
I've just obtained an internal Senate committee memo detailing the latest cuts being eyed by the gang of Senators being led by Dem Ben Nelson and GOPer Susan Collins. Here is what's being eyed in the bill right now: More on Stimulus Package <br clear="both" style="clear: ...
Why State Spending Is CRUCIAL And Collins-Nelson Would CRIPPLE the Recovery — Open Left - Front Page
Note: I'm greatly encouraged by the news that the Collins-Nelson betrayal may be cut off at the pass.  But just to make sure we all understand just how bad their proposal is, I'm posting this diary anyway. To be effective a stimulus requires four things: (1) that it be quick, (2) that it ...