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What got cut from stimulus bill
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Fire Management $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity $2 billion for HIT Grants $600 million for Title I (NCLB) $16 billion for school construction $3.5 billion for higher education construction $1.25 billion for project based rental $2.25 for Neighborhood Stabilization $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants) Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/stimulus.cuts/in...
Speaker Pelosi, Let’s Take Back The Senate’s 55 Billion Gift To Nukes And Coal
Firedoglake —
... , and the one billion cut from Head Start. And the everybodies who need jobs: the dollars the Senate wants to give away to the nuke and coal industry would create only a fraction of the jobs the same money could create in health and education. [The everybodies who need jobs need them now: health care and education spending makes jobs this year: the nuke subsidies wouldn't see any new plants til at ...
BREAKING: For Sensible Senate Moderates, Illiterate, Malnourished Children Are Keys to America’s Future
Firedoglake —
... According to a consensus of top economists, the reason the bill was so effective can be traced to a single source: the decision to strip the bill of $98 million in funding for ensuring that school children receive adequate nutrition. ...
Just What Will Come Remains a Mystery to Me
Whiskey Fire —
... But what was it about the 2009 "stimulus package" that has led to such triumphant results?
According to a consensus of top economists, the reason the bill was so effective can be traced to the decision to strip the bill of $98 million in funding for ensuring that school children receive adequate nutrition. ...
News Items That Melt My Hard Drive
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... In case you hadn't seen this on CNN's website yesterday, below is a comprehensive list of all the things that were cut out of the Senate version of the stimulus bill (I'd highly recommend following the links this time since they explain what exactly got cut and who exactly will suffer): ...
What the Cuts to the Stimulus Mean, In Real Terms
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... Everyone is still trying to get a handle on what got cut from the stimulus bill as a small group of centrist senators worked toward the compromise bill that will likely be voted on this evening. CNN has a pretty good list supplied by a Democratic staffer, but while some of it is specific ("$1 billion for Head Start/Early Start," "$200 million for National Science Foundation"), some of it is laughably not so ("$100 million for science"). What is clear is that emergency funding for states that are seeing looming budget crises got cut big time, a development that Paul ...
Partial List Of Cuts & Reductions In Pelosi-Reid-Obama Spending Bill
Right Soup —
Via CNN, here is a Democrat-provided list of partial and full cuts in the in the Pelosi-Reid-Obama spending bill, Porkulus:
Partially cut:
• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)
• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original ...
The Stimulus Plan: Change Requires Change
The Latest on Air America —
... who gutted the stimulus package before it was properly filled up with “negotiating points.” Seriously, folks, whatever happened to shooting the moon? The result of this misunderestimation? Bye-bye aid to for failing state governments (more IOUs to California’s teachers, cops, firefighters, et al), toodles to new school construction, no to state-by-state Medicaid support, and a billion less for the nation’s Head Start programs. (Check out a good list of what’s going and-or gone here .) President Obama could have used this economic crisis as a lever to re-create a more ...
America Has a Unicameral Legislature
Open Left - Front Page —
... On the first point, off-hand I can think of several times this year alone when the Senate has blocked or delayed House legislation. The Senate cut $108 billion from the stimulus package, entirely blocked the Employee Free Choice Act, housing bankruptcy reform (aka "cramdown"), ...
The Progressive Block
Open Left - Front Page —
... not to mention control of the White House, we are still being told that our agenda is not politically possible. However, what is really happening is that a block of conservative Democrats are regularly joining with Republicans to weaken, or block entirely, many of the pillars of the progressive legislative agenda:
Stimulus: A group of nearly twenty Senators, most of them Democrats, successfully watered down an already too small stimulus was watered down by $96 billion.
Health Care: After the budget passed, and allowed for the 50-vote ...
Collin Peterson Gets His Way, But Is Now A Great Environmentalist
Open Left - Front Page —
... electric cooperatives. Further, the EPA's ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions had already been removed in this bill, and now they don't get to determine agriculture carbon offsets either.
Here are some questions to ponder based on this latest news:
How many Senators will be in the Gang to water down the climate change bill? When it comes to passing major legislation, the Senate is always over-run by gangs. For example, a Gang of 18 removed $96 billion in spending from the stimulus, and the famous Gang of 14 preserved the ...
Not About Whether Obama Supports the Public Option
Open Left - Front Page —
... option is not the important point. Rather, the important point is whether the Obama administration, in order to achieve a health care bill, is more willing and able to pressure the Progressive Block in the House or the Conservadem Block in the Senate.
In this light, I don't actually blame the Obama administration and elite Democratic surrogates from starting to apply more pressure to the Progressive Block in the House. From the bailout, to the housing bill, to the stimulus, to the climate change bill, Progressives have consistently proven more ...
Monday Night Sestak!
Open Left - Front Page —
... from the package and include 35% in tax relief in the overall bill. My preference would have been John McCain's proposal, which I voted for, to have the stimulus package of $421 billion in tax cuts alone. I voted for the Reagan tax cuts back in 1981 and that would be the best course, but in a legislative body you don't have exactly your own choice.
Maybe they will only build half of the train station in Elizabethtown.A complete list of Specter's stimulus cuts can be found here. No matter where you live, the $40 billion in state aid that was cut ...
