Feb 10 2009
Stimulus passes Senate
The United States Senate has passed its version of President Obama’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Plan. The vote was 61 to 37. Three Republicans Obstructionists (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania) defied their party leadership and voted in favor of our country’s future. All 56 Democrats and two Independents voted for the bill.
Senate Passes Economic Stimulus Bill
The Senate today passed an economic stimulus bill that President Obama and congressional Democrats called crucial to pull the U.S. economy out of its downward spiral but that drew scant support from Republicans.
Senators voted 61 to 37 to approve the massive bill, which the Congressional Budget Office now says would cost $838 billion over 10 years. Only three Republicans voted in favor of it. In the House, an $819 billion version of the package passed on Jan. 28 with no Republican support.
The bill now goes to a reconciliation committee where the differences between the House version and the Senate version must be ironed out before it can go to the president to be signed into law. Hopefully some of the teeth removed from the bill to placate the Republicans Obstructionists in the Senate can be replaced during reconciliation.
6 Responses to “Stimulus passes Senate”
well, this has less to do on the actual blog entry and more on the way it was written….
this is my first time here, so this is the first example i’ve ever seen of this on this site, so i don’t know how often this happens…
anyway, i’m liberal, and so is my entire family… but i don’t think that you can rightfully call republicans ‘obstructionists’ and retain the liberal views of equality, respect, and understanding of foreign views.
i’m no fan of what most republicans stand for, but neither party should be insulting the other with childish name-calling…
i can’t really take this blog seriously if it’s going to resort to acting like a bunch of 2nd graders…
@sophie brown : With all due respect, sophie… You are the second person today to drop by here and tell me how I should be writing my blog. That is something I have never done and will never do to another blogger. But if that is your thing, by all means have at it.
I don’t know how many right wing blogs you visit each day, but please believe me, the names I call them are mild compared to what they call us.
At any rate, I’m just going to call it as I see it.
Thanks for dropping by.
$88.6 million for school construction for a district that has 15 empty schools is stupid. More money than spend in Iraq and Afganistan that will create more debt is stupid. Democrats will be laying their own graves. God help us.
Thankfully, Republicans and some House Democrats are opposed to this faux stimulus plan, an underhanded way for President Obama to expand the size of the government.
Call the opposition what you want, but politicians of every political stripe needs to recognize what this package is: big on pork, little on stimulating the economy.
@Harrison ; @Matt Keegan : Just out of curiosity, what would your solutions be?
I do visit many conservative blogs and you are correct. Some are completely shameless when it comes to name calling.
I also would like to know what solutions other than this anyone has to get us out of a mess that was created by a Republican right winged administration.
If I recall correctly when the last Democrat left office and the Republicans got in we not only weren’t in debt but we had money left over.
So don’t blame us so called liberal left winged nuts (that’s just one name I encounter on some blogs) for something that your party got us into.
While we are discussing the issue of money here. Perhaps someone would like to explain to me just exactly where did all of the money go to anyway?
Our soldiers are ill equipped, they get lousy treatment at VA hospitals that are in ruin, our public school system is a joke, every broker on Wall Street is calling in broke, and I won’t even discuss our banks and the mess they are in.
I don’t hear Bush, Cheney, or Haliburton calling fowl though. Do any of you? Perhaps if they would address this issue with total honesty we really would know where the money went and just who’s pockets got lined over the last 8 years.
I can certainly tell you that it wasn’t the common everyday working man. So if any of you have a better solution than what our president has then either lie it on the table or just be quiet.
That’s just my humble opinion. Apparently most of America agreed with me as President Obama won the election with profound numbers!!
The only people I really hear complaining are those that I know are very well to do financially and you’re scared to death that your party is really over and it’s time for you to pick up the check for a while instead of us working middle class people that make under $250,000 a year!! Why are you so scared? We make less than $60,000 a year and managed to put our kids through college and pay the majority of taxes in this country for years. I am almost sure those of you that belong to yacht clubs and such can certainly afford it if we did!!