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The Senate is currently the nearly $900 billion economic stimulus bill.
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countryfirstpac.com —
The Senate recently began debate on an economic
stimulus package that is intended to get our economy...
get back on track and help Americans who are suffering through these difficult times. Unfortunately, the proposal on the table is big on the ...
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Vote No on the Economic Stimulus
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GOP Senators Pick Their Pork
Angry Bear —
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 Hollywood movie producers Another concern: $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBII have listed all the line items below the fold divided into five categories. 1) 'Spending that could use some explanation' This includes that Hollywood ...
"Waste"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Specifically, here's a summary of what the GOP objects to in the stimulus package. If Obama conceded on all of it, the package's cost would decline by a couple of percentage points. So why not give it to them? It would suggest that the rest isn't wasteful, and that the GOP is still in its cut-the-pork unserious phase of its attempt to restore fiscal sanity. ...
Republicans’ Stimulus “Wasteful Spending” List: Is that All They’ve Got?
Firedoglake —
... CNN is reporting a list of what the Republican describe as "wasteful spending" in the Senate's $885 stimulus bill.
But if this list, which only adds up to about 2 percent of the total, is all the Republican are complaining about, then the rest of the stimulus package must be pretty good. Let's strip out the least defensible items, add on some more ready infrastructure projects, as the Democrats are planning, and pass this thing.
I did a quick total/spreadsheet. From a $885 billion proposal (Senate version), the Republicans have managed to ...
House Republicans, 98% on board
Political Animal —
HOUSE REPUBLICANS, 98% ON BOARD.... Yesterday, the House Republican caucus released a list of "what they call wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the nearly $900 billion stimulus bill that is being debated." It is, to be sure, a pretty long list, identifying 32 specific spending measures that the GOP considers either wasteful, lacking stimulative value, or both. Now, putting aside the merit of the provisions, I went ahead and did some back-of-the-envelope math, adding up the grand total of all of the measures in question. I came up with a total of roughly $18.7 ...
Your Tax Dollars at Work
Neptunus Lex —
Anybody see the overall strategy in these expenditures?
Yeah. Me either.
2%
The Reaction —
By Creature That's the percentage of spending House Republicans consider "wasteful provisions" in the Senate's version of the stimulus bill. As Steve Benen says, "After screaming "pork!" and "waste!" non-stop for weeks, these guys really should have been able to come up with more than just 2% of the bill. A list like this one is practically an endorsement of the administration's agenda." This whole stimulus exercise is getting old, fast.
What Republicans Think Is “Wasteful” To Spend Money On
Comments from Left Field —
This is just a sampling of the kind of projects Republicans believe to be a waste of money:
A near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Bush administration defunded last year because, according to them, it was “inefficient.”
A program at the Centers for Disease Control to develop treatment and prevention strategies for sexually transmitted diseases. And the buildings and property belonging to the CDC.
Building and repairing the physical plant of the National Institutes of ...
Steven Waldman: The Strange Case of the Underfed National Service Strategy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... I was right in the middle of writing a tirade on this point when I read that the Senate Republicans have attacked even this piddling amount as "paid volunteers working at the Corporation for National Service," according to CNN.com. Grrrr. ...
Obama Asks: ‘Are These Folks Serious?’
Wonk Room —
... . He also responded to critics who “ridiculed our notion that we should use part of the money to modernize the entire fleet of federal vehicles,” asking, “Are these folks serious?” ...
The Centrist Cut List: What It Means
TPM Election Central —
... - A $5.2 billion cut in prevention and wellness aid is being discussed, including trims in HIV testing and smoking cessation. The direct economic effect of this spending is debatable, but one thing isn't: cutting these programs would mean that Democrats are getting rid of the exact items that Republicans have harped on as wasteful spending -- even as they criticize the GOP for making a mountain out of a stimulus molehill. Still, as Senate Democratic Vice Chairman Chuck Schumer (NY) acknowledged to reporters this afternoon about the spending items being blasted by Republicans: ...
Reid Thinks He Has The Votes To Pass Crap Sammich, Today
Nice Deb —
... doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin.”
What does Obama think his crap sandwich is going to do to the national debt?! And whose policies threw our economy into a tailspin?!
How does this man sleep at night?
Reid warned that he would not allow the president’s program to be held “hostage.” Asked if he had 60 votes already to ensure Senate passage, Reid said. “We believe we do.”
This is what’s being “held hostage”: 90% pork, welfare, and Democrat empowerment ...
Michele Bachmann: It's Just Really Bad Legislation...That's The Problem
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
A month into the 111th Congress, we've seen no signs of the “change” and “reform” to Washington promised by the Democrats last fall. Starting with a restrictive rules package meant to silence the House minority , the heavy-handed partisan talk continues. For instance, President Obama made some strong remarks last night while before the House Democrats at their retreat in Williamsburg, VA. According to Washington's DC Examiner newspaper: "President Obama used some of his toughest partisan rhetoric yet... Accusing Republicans of engaging in 'phony arguments and petty politics,' Obama escalated the tone of his pushback against Republican ...
Rolling Stone Defends Pork, Attacks GOP
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... with a predictable attack on Republican Senators after CNN published a Republican list of 32 wasteful provisions contained in the proposed bill. ...
Minimum Wage: the Jimmy the Stock Boy Fallacy
Angry Bear —
... get them to relocate no matter that the job effects on the previous factory location might be serious. Now suddenly it is all about the jobs locally. Moreover when given the opportunity to fund education, job training, youth job programs, and community development, programs which might or might not be stimulative in the short run, but certain would create longer term opportunities for these same populations the Republicans in both Houses voted almost unanimously 'No'. What GOP Leaders deem wasteful in Senate stimulus bill ...
Republicans Plead for “Perspective” on AIG Bonuses
Firedoglake —
C'mon, people. It's only $165 million! What's the big deal?
Krauthammer:
This is a trifling amount of money when our economy is on fire and when AIG is hemorrhaging billions.
Santelli: ...
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Stimulus Update: Senate Bill $7.5 billion Higher Than House Version
corner.nationalreview.com 2/7/2009 — Stimulus Update from Senate Republican Policy Committee:
Cost of deal: $780bn
Cost of amendments added on the floor: $47bn
Total cost of Senate bill: $827.0bn
Total estimated cost with interest: $1.2 trillion
Senate bill is $7.5bn higher ...
Senate Bill Still Costs More than House Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 2/7/2009 — Senate GOP sending this out:
The $780 billion figure doesn't include the $46.5 billion in amendments added to the stimulus bill this week. According to our numbers, the deal is at least $827 billion, $7 billion MORE than the House passed bill. With ...
$900 billion stimulus package runs aground
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 2/4/2009 — Color me shocked: the stimulus, after swelling to $900 billion in the Senate, has suddenly run into trouble . Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the
votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said ...
The Stimulus Debate Goes Goldilocks
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/6/2009 — Despite a rousing, psych-you-up speech from President Obama last night, the Senate is still facing the same core dilemma on the economic recovery bill.
Call it the Goldilocks problem. The 15 centrist senators still in talks on slicing about $100 ...
Senate Streamlines Stimulus
blog.thehill.com 2/7/2009 — The Senate reached a compromise on the economic stimulus package Friday evening, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced a streamlined version of the bill that could be voted during a weekend session.
Call it what you will, but it's not a stimulus
betsyspage.blogspot.com 1/23/2009 — David Brooks lays out all that is wrong with this turkey of a bill that the House Democrats have put together. There is almost nothing in it that will stimulate the economy now. The bill has three essential failings. First, it lacks any strategic ...
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, ...
McConnell: Republicans Are More in Line With Obama Than Dems
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/27/2009 — Oh, those coquettish Republicans.
First they " are being listened to " by the president on a stimulus bill that includes more than $250 billion in tax cuts. Then they realize that they just can't support a stimulus without more tax cuts -- and the ...
The European Social Welfare State Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 1/28/2009 — Let's start with some basics about the stimulus bill. According to my quick read (so all numbers here are subject to revision) of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis, the total estimated cost of the proposal is $816 billion over ten years. ...
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 ...
For House Republicans, Zero is the Loneliest Number
fivethirtyeight.com 1/29/2009 — Is this really the Associated Press lede that the Republicans wanted? WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a historically huge $819 billion stimulus bill Wednesday night with ...
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 ...
House Passes Stimulation Bill
reason.com 1/29/2009 — In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a historically huge $819 billion stimulus bill Wednesday night with spending increases and tax cuts at the heart of the young administration's plan to revive a ...
House Passes Stimulus With Zero GOP Votes
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/30/2009 — Guess that dinner at the White House didn't go so well ... the $825 billion stimulus bill just passed the House of Representatives with zero Republicans voting in favor. Eleven Democrats -- 10 centrist Blue Dogs and the unconvinced Rep. Paul ...
The Paradox of Political Capital
fivethirtyeight.com 2/4/2009 — If the Washington Post is correct that the stimulus bill is going to be significantly pared down in the Senate -- possibly deducting about $200 billion from its total and making the ratio of spending programs to tax cuts closer to 1:1 -- this will be ...
Senate Stimulus Bill: Watching the Defectives —
Firedoglake
The Senate is debating various amendments to the $900 billion stimulus bill. Reid just said that the so-called "centrists" are still in a meeting deciding what they want to do , so I'm taking his assurances that he "has the votes" with a grain of salt.
These are ...
Senate Version of the Stimulus Bill —
Angry Bear
Up to now most of the numbers used in the Pick your Pork series have been drawn from the initial House version of the bill. But now the action has moved to the Senate and it is time to shift our ground in response. So lets develop some links. CBO Director's Blog: Macroeconomic Effects of the ...
Senate Squabbles over Stimulus —
Congress Blog
Senate Republicans showed no signs of supporting the economic stimulus bill Wednesday, offering several amendments to the package, while Democrats are confident they will pass a bill soon.
Senate Stimulus Bill (Full Text) —
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
The first indication that the Senate and House stimulus packages have diverged is the size of each. The House bill, H.R.1, clocked in at 647 pages before amendments, 680 after. Meanwhile the Senate version, S.336, is a lean 431-pager.
The bill will be debated this week in the Senate and ...
Senate Stimulus Bill (Full Text) —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
The first indication that the Senate and House stimulus packages have diverged is the size of each. The House bill, H.R.1, clocked in at 647 pages before amendments, 680 after. Meanwhile the Senate version, S.336, is a lean 431-pager.
The bill will be debated this week in the Senate and ...
OBAMA'S PESSIMISTIC SOCIALISM IS HURTING THE ECONOMY —
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
OBAMA'S RELENTLESS NEGATIVITY CONTINUES UNABATED; THE NYTIMES: Others argue that the best bang for the buck would come from a stimulus package devoted mainly to tax cuts rather than public investment. The breakdown in the $819 billion bill that the House approved on Wednesday and the Senate ...
What Does Your Republican Governor Think of the Stimulus Bill? —
Firedoglake
The Senate version of the stimulus bill cut aid to states from $79 billion to $39 billion , roughly half of what it was in the House bill. What does your Republican governor think of Susan Collins' cuts? Do they agree with Joe Lieberman that the two of them deserve the Medal of Honor ...
The Ever Expanding Stimulus —
The Corner on National Review Online
Senate Republicans are sending out the following release noting how since September the stimulus has grown from $56 billion to the current $800+ billion:
As The $827 Billion Spending Bill Continues To Grow, Taxpayers Remember When It Was A Much Smaller Proposal
$56 BILLION
POLITICO: ...
The Republicans Have Nothing to Party About —
Pacific Views
... by Walter and Rosemary Brasch
Every House Republican and 11 Democrats voted against President Barack Obama's $819 billion stimulus package. It still passed by a vote of 244 to 188.
There are enough votes in the Senate to pass the bill, but the obstructionist Republican minority, still ...
Senate Stimulus Bill (Full Text) —
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Updated on February 8
The compromise Senate stimulus bill has been entered into the congressional record. It's not available yet as a pdf because it's still being printed and bound. But by reading through the record, you can get an early look at it.
Follow this link and find the bill ...
Walking You Through The Stimulus Plan Debacle —
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE
For those of you (which are most of us) who are too busy living a life to understand this entire Stimulus plan soap opera. I'll walk you though it plain terms. Jan. 26 th : Stimulus bill! 7,8, 9 Billion! There. Ok , maybe a few billion more, give or take. Jan 27 th : Obama to House Republicans: ...
The Cut List —
Boots and Sabers
Just look at what the Senate cut from the stimulus bill and ponder the laundry list of crap that’s still in there.
Partially cut:
• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
• $200 million ...
List Of What Got Cut From The Stimulus Bill —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
A coalition of Democrats and some Republicans reached a compromise that trimmed billions in spending from an earlier version of the Senate economic stimulus bill.
CNN obtained, from a Democratic leadership aide, a list of some programs that have been cut -- either entirely or partially:
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