Senate Passes Obama’s Stimulus Plan
By JENNIFER LOVEN,
AP
February 10, 2009
FORT MYERS, Fla. (Feb. 10) – President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan has passed the Senate and is on its way to difficult House-Senate negotiations.
Just three Republicans helped pass the plan on a 61-37 vote and they’re already signaling they’ll play hardball to preserve more than $108 billion in spending cuts made last week in Senate dealmaking. Obama wants to restore cuts in funds for school construction jobs and help for cash-starved states.
Those cuts are among the major differences between the $819 billion House version of Obama’s plan and a Senate bill costing $838 billion. Obama has warned of a deepening economic crisis if Congress fails to act. He wants a bill completed by the weekend.
The bill backed by the White House survived a key test vote in the Senate Monday despite strong Republican opposition, and Democratic leaders vowed to deliver legislation for President Barack Obama’s signature within a few days.
Monday’s vote was 61-36, one more than the 60 needed to advance the measure toward Senate passage on Tuesday. That in turn, will set the stage for possibly contentious negotiations with the House on a final compromise on legislation the president says is desperately needed to tackle the worst economic crisis in more than a generation.
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This is a disaster for America.
Total catastrophe! The US has officially become a Socialist country.
FDR made several mistakes that turned a recession into the Great Depression. Obama is apparently determined to repeat every single one of them. Wake up, America!
We must stop this bill from final passage. It is full of pork barrell spending for special interest groups, to be paid for by us and our future generations. It will stimulate not our economy, but our already bloated government.
I was watching judge mathis on tv and he said “if you dont know what your talking about you should just shut-up, be quiet! shhhhhhh
Rejoice! Rejoice!! Obama will turn our great country into a workers paradise!! Just like the Soviet Union, Cuba and North Korea!!!
Here is our new national anthem!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46t_nrySg4
If you don’t like what she posts, either don’t read it or get lost. You’re a pathetic loser who has nothing better to do with your life than spam.
I agree. Too many sissy whiners here. It’s her blog she can do what she wants. If you don’t like it then make your own blog. Now get lost!
Obscene power grab…
Rejoice all ye bird-brained American prophets of doom. You now have another thing to bitch about for the next few months. It must be quite stimulating live in fear instead of hope, eh?. Meanwhile, many people all over the world will be hoping that this stimulus package does work.
“Rejoice all ye bird-brained American prophets of doom. You now have another thing to bitch about for the next few months. It must be quite stimulating live in fear instead of hope, eh?. Meanwhile, many people all over the world will be hoping that this stimulus package does work.”
You are not frying in the pan with us Euro-dumbass. But just you wait, your turn is coming. No one will be there to liberate Normandy this time. Enjoy your fate.
This economic recovery bill is a farce. It is using 838 billion scraps of paper that have no value in order to create the illusion of wealth. It will only allow special interests to enrich themselves and allow liberal far-left errors to be spread around the world.
This is bad. Great Drepession bad.
I’m just wondering to all the trolls. If you were the one on the hot seat, what you will do realistically. Talk is easy, action is difficult.
All this talk of pork barreling reminds me of the Muppets.
You wouldn’t expect Miss Piggy to be pro the pork-barrel and she wasn’t. She believed in any religion that was pro-pig and anti-pork.
However, this did not stop her flashing her eyelashes at Kermy and living off his money, or throwing a tantrum if she didn’t get what she wanted.
“However, this did not stop her flashing her eyelashes at Kermy and living off his money, or throwing a tantrum if she didn’t get what she wanted.”
WTF?
Why save money? Inflation is coming.