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House Speaker Pelosi, Hoyer, Majority Whip Clyburn and others announced a House Jobs Bill named “Jobs for Main Street” The 174billion dollar legislation was filed today and passed on 12/16/09 for the coming year.

The Jobs Bill should create more public service jobs, sustains the success of the stimulus, reduces the deficit, sustains the current job loss path toward a more positive result, will also sustain investments, boost construction.. infrastructure program; the following are all paid for by tarp funds …credit for small biz, the bill also allows for an extension of unemployment insurance and Cobra for 6months to help like public service jobs… teachers, firefighters and police officers.

In all the House worked on and passed the following items of legislation..

Defense Appropriations 636billion dollar bill was voted on and passed 395 ayes 30 nays,

Debt extension,

300billion dollar increase to the debt limit passed 218 ayes 214 nays would top out at 12.394 trillion dollars

The 174billion dollar jobs bill using tarp funds will also extend both unemployment insurance and Cobra for 6 months.

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Let Dems hear from you…202-225-3121… this HCR bill is for the People

12/14/2009 Nativegrl77

REPOST

The Democrats who’ve said — either in interviews or press releases — that they’re opposing the HCR bill include: 15 so far

Members of Congress need to hear from you. Lieberman may have wanted Medicare buy in and HCR before he didn’t; he is now showing how Politicians can easily put aside the rights of their constituents and fellow Americans. We need to get Progressive Democrats to Unite and push pass and shove a Bill toward our President’s desk that has been a long time in the making and one that can change not just health care, it will create jobs, will not kill grandma and will definitely need to be adjusted frequently.

The number to the Congressional switch board is 202-225-3121. If you get a busy signal, don’t be discouraged. Keep dialing.

Rep. Travis Childers (Miss.);

Rep. John Adler (N.J.);

Rep. Walt Minnick (Idaho);

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (S.Dak.);

Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (Fla.);

Rep. Frank Kratovil (Md.);

Rep. Larry Kissell (N.C.);

Rep. Bart Gordon (Tenn.);

Rep. Dan Boren (Okla.);

Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah);

Rep. Michael McMahon (N.Y.);

Rep. John Tanner (Tenn.);

Rep. Brian Baird (Wash.);

Rep. Harry Teague (N.M.);

and Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.).

Black History

Congress VOTES and UPDATES …

12/06/2009 Nativegrl77

UPDATES: 12/05/09 the House passes HR 3590 patient protection/affordable care act

House Democrats added 5 amendments to HR 3590:

Senator Kerry’s (A2926) passed 96-0 to preserve home health benefits

Sen. Stabenow (A2899) passed 97 ayes 1 nay

Sen. Thune (A2901) passed 51 ayes 41 nays

Sen. Whitehouse (A2870) pasesd 98 ayes 0 nays

Sen. Bennett (A2826) passed 100 ayes 0 nays

(R)Senator johanns amendment to eliminate cuts to Medicare home health services was voted down 53 nays 41 ayes; it also would have sent the Bill back to the CFO to remove all cuts in the bill before getting back on the floor for further consideration.

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H/S action on 12/03/09

The House makes its way to voting on extending the Estate Tax Cuts, the bill, sponsored by Blue Dog Earl Pomeroy, would make permanent the lower estate tax rate that was enacted by President Bush. /H.R. 4145 — Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act of 2009

UPDATE: HR 4145 Passes: 225 ayes 200 nays… 26Democrats and 174Republicans voted nay …6Democrats and 3Republicans abstained

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Senator McCain’s amendment and his attempt to send the entire 2074 page bill back to the Senate Finance Committee was rejected by a vote of 58-42

Democrats stated no guaranteed benefits to Seniors will be cut. The bill “does not take away any seniors’ guaranteed Medicare benefits,” Bennet said on the Senate floor. “We know that the bill extends Medicare solvency for five additional years.” Passed 100-0.

The Senate also voted on 2 Women’s Health Amendments proposed by Senator Mikulski and Senator Murkowski

The Mikulski amendment was Approved by a vote of 61-39. Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME] and Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME] joined Democrats to vote in favor the amendment. Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI] and Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE] voted with Republicans against it.

The Murkowski amendment was Rejected by a vote of 41-59. Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE] was the only Democrat to vote in favor of the Murkowski amendment along with all Republicans.

Senator Mary Landrieu offered up another Public Option…option, called the competitive community option, that reads like the trigger that Senator Snowe proposed but is calling it a fallback.

opencongress.org / Donny Shaw

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Got Wood …

12/05/2009 Nativegrl77

Okay, that was a bad joke…

i have to say the amount of attention his accident and behavior got seemed a bit much for this avid tv viewer. i agree he did dirty to his wife and family, was thinking with the wrong wood and acted with absolutely no scruples.

As a person who dated a lot; i have learned that some guys show you who they are; you either accept it, talk it out or leave it alone.i guess in some cases women look the other way and or feel okay, this will be fine because i can change him, we are getting married so… things will be fine.
People can and do change but i gotta say doesn’t love mean accepting the person you marry or end up with just the way they are?

An old saying comes to mind, you get what you pay for? well, what else is there to say.

The various people coming out to say this or that was fascinating and disturbing, far be it from me to cast a stone, i have plenty i could tell if asked but i too would choose to shut up not to mention i am not famous or TW; but it’s the American way right? you owe me and or us for being so popular, (we)? put you on a pedestal because (we)? have deemed you a role model but don’t get into my business. In my opinion the we is the Media not the public as suggested by various news outlets.

so, hopefully people will start to get it, Tiger is a man first, has the right to privacy just like everyone else no matter how much money he makes.

we all have our ideas about what happened but the rush for these women to get their stories out there; paid for or not was strange.

i know this definitely is not the first time, or the last time a woman, mistress or whatever you want to call her spill the beans… predator came to mind,why? because one of them said she didn’t care who he was married to, it was f-ing TW, if this is correct her intent was clear.

The victims are Elin and the children, the intent if any may be to destroy a family for some sort of gain..money,that 15 minutes of fame, it’s obvious to me she and others who made a point in keeping the emails, voice mail, trip docs and telling a whole office; yep i did TW. “Her” actions were based on premeditated and predatory behavior.

this is just my take on a sad but common incident, hopefully his family will stay in tact and move forward.

love Tiger and his cubs