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ProPublica: House vs. Senate Stimulus Bills
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... that follows a compromise reached over the weekend. But before the package can go to President Barack Obama's desk, the Senate will have to resolve differences with the House and its $819 billion version. Most predict a bruising battle that won't wrap up until week's end, in part because of fiery differences over tax cuts and spending on food stamps and education, a critical issue for Democrats who control the House.
So how do the two versions stack up? We've put together a chart so you can easily spot the differences.
Some highlights: The House version would ...
Senate Passes Stimulus Bill, 61-37
The Caucus —
... , which occurred shortly before President Obama took to the lectern in the White House East Room and concentrated efforts in his first news conference on the economy and how to reverse the downturn. The bill now must be reconciled with the House version, which passed a little more than a week ago without one Republican vote. (The Web site ProPublica.org has posted a side-by-side comparison of some of the differences between the bills.) Yet ...
Obama Stumps for Stimulus in Florida
The Caucus —
... and it moves to the House with significant differences that must be reconciled before he can sign it into law. Finding bipartisanship in Washington has proven to be an elusive challenge during the opening weeks of Mr. Obama’s term, which was one of the key reasons the president traveled to Florida on Tuesday to showcase a leading Republican supporter of his economic stimulus plan: ...
Stimulus Passes Senate - $838 Billion
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... to derail president’s initiative by raising a budget point of order against the massive bill for adding to the deficit. This also failed on an identical 61-37 vote waiving the rules. Just three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania — crossed the aisle to back the president. Going forward, Obama’s challenge will be to retain this support while also bridging a rural-urban divide in his own party that could delay a final agreement. ProPublica compares the House and Senate versions in detail. As hard as this was, the real ...
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 make progress toward goals set by No Child Left Behind. All told, the Senate bill eliminates more than $25 billion in education funding originally included in the House ...
Senate, House stimulus bill comparison
The Swamp —
... You'll quickly notice that the Senate Finance document doesn't contain dollar amounts for the various provisions. That's where a comparison from ProPublica, the non-profit journalism organization, is very useful because it has the amounts. ...
Stimulus Bills: Side by Side
The Moderate Voice —
... If you’re seeking, as I have been, a more detailed comparison of the competing House and Senate stimuli than is typically available in the MSM, check out this post at ProPublica. ...
Stimulus Survives Senate Pecking
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... The Senate passed its own version of the Stimulus package Tuesday, slashing funding in areas that would most effectively stimulate the economy, such as aid to low-income Americans and states, while expanding tax cuts. The House and Senate bills must now be reconciled with one another.
ProPublica has assembled a handy chart that illustrates the differences between the two packages.
New York Times:
Despite numerous differences in the two bills approved in the Senate and the House, the overall scope of the ...
Tuesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... for the changes they believe are necessary. * On a related note, here's a good look at the difference between the two stimulus bills. * Sarah Palin's Trooper-gate scandal gets a ...
Obama: The Days Of ‘Building Sprawl Forever’ Are Over
Wonk Room —
... Not everybody recognizes it, though. The Senate trimmed $3.6 billion — almost a third — of the mass transit funding out of the stimulus bill, relative to the House’s version. Of course, the House started by pairing ...
The House and Senate stimulus bills
Sister Toldjah —
Compare ‘em here.
Senator Coburn made a great argument last week against the massive stimulus spending that I missed. Make sure to check it out.
Comparing the Senate and House stimulus bills
Majikthise —
... ProPublica has the table showing how "moderate" Democrats and Republicans slashed spending from the Senate version of the stimulus bill, which passed yesterday--as compared to the House version of the bill. ...
Comparing the House and Senate Stimulus Bills
Open Left - Front Page —
For those who want to dig into the differences between the House and Senate stimulus bills, ProPublica has produced this great side-by-side chart. ...
Senate Stimulus: Steal from the Poor to Give to the Affluent
Firedoglake —
ProPublica has done a comparison of the House and Senate stimulus packages. It shows, in striking fashion, how much the Grassley-Isakson-Coburn-Collins-Bad Nelson bill skews spending away from the poor--the most stimulative kind of spending, since these people need this money badly and would spend it right away--to the upper middle class: ...
GOP Repeats History of One-Way Bipartisanship
Crooks and Liars —
... , President Obama picked up a whopping three Republican votes in the Senate one day after his first presidential press conference. (At this point, prospects for any gains on the final bill emerging from the House and Senate conference seem dubious.) But while his quixotic quest to reach across the aisle may have come up empty for now, Obama can take some comfort from Bill Clinton's experience ...
