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Humpday wrap-up …


Today has been a long irritating, tedious and frustrating day or evening for the House and Senate members; the House is still in session the Senate just adjourned;on a motion to table extenders vote 54yeas 45nays … the debate on the 40 or more provisions continues Thursdays session

a $149Bil continues certain tax breaks and programs through December 31st

… stay tuned HR4691 includes some, all or part of the following: reauthorizes Federal Satellite Tv into law through 2014, tax extenders.  Though Republican George Lemieux of Florida tried to insert a procedural maneuver to force the bill to be paid for entirely by subsequent legislation, it was defeated 60yeas 37nays as well as a one time payment of $250.00 was defeated by the Senate in a vote of 50-47 for Seniors. More provisions for Vets/disabled using stimulus funds, Cobra, flood ins and increases Medicare payments for Doctors for 6months will be dealt with on Thursday. Apparently, the Burr amendment has yet to be voted on as well

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Bon Jovi Takes United We Serve on Tour

Posted by Jesse Lee on March 3, 2010 at 6:03 PM EST

President Obama’s United We Serve initiative is about to go on tour alongside Bon Jovi on the band’s “The Circle World Tour.” In collaboration with the Corporation for National and Community Service, rocker Jon Bon Jovi will be the first person to engage mass audiences in the President’s call to service at concert venues. The United We Serve initiative encourages Americans to get involved in community service to help the nation move forward.


Rachel Maddow displayed this absolutely splendid chart on her show.

The first bar is the impact on the unified budget balance of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (EGTRRA) of 2001. The second is the impact on the budget balance of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. The third bar is the CBO estimated impact on the deficit of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act proposed in the Senate on November 19, for 2010-2019.

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What the Recovery Act did for us All …


Just over a year ago, thanks in part to your organizing, President Obama was able to sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law.

The Recovery Act wasn’t a silver bullet, but it’s very good policy. It cut taxes for 95% of working families to give them a leg up as they fight to get by. It invested in our nation’s infrastructure and clean energy. it gave tax breaks to small businesses to help hire workers, and it helped out state and local governments — including local police departments like the one in Englewood, Colorado, which was able to hire officers like Eddie B., whose story is below.

We’ve got a lot more work to do. But as many as 2.4 million Americans are working now who would otherwise be unemployed, and we’re breaking the back of the recession.

We put together a video explaining where we were just one year ago, and what the Recovery Act has done for our country. Watch it here.

Road to Recovery: Watch the video

In the three months prior to the Act, the nation lost 2.2 million jobs. The financial system was collapsing, and the “Great Recession” was being recognized for what it was — the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

But since the Act’s passage, Americans of all stripes have been able to get back to work. One example of what the Recovery Act made possible is the story of Eddie B., from Englewood, Colorado.

He graduated from police academy in 2009. Without the Recovery Act, he and his classmates would have had to wait for two years before being hired into the police department — but stimulus funds led to him being hired immediately. In Eddie’s words, “the President, with the Recovery Act, gave me the opportunity to serve my community and help the people I live with.”

The success of the Recovery Act is composed of millions of stories like Eddie’s — of folks getting to work who wouldn’t otherwise be in their jobs, families able to buy their first home because of the homeowner’s tax credit, and much more.

Please check out the video we put together, and pass it along to 5 friends:

http://my.barackobama.com/RecoveryVideo

Thank you,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

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House Speaker announces “Jobs for Main Street” legislation 12/16/09


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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Senate HCR…Watch the process for yourself…Saturday 11/20


Sen. Majority Ldr announces health care debate and vote

Sen. Majority Ldr announces health care debate and vote

Today

Sen. Majority Ldr. Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that on Friday and Saturday the Senate will debate health care reform. At 8pm on Saturday there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the bill. Sixty votes are needed to invoke cloture. If cloture passes, debate on the bill and amendments will take place after the holiday recess.
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Washington State news …R71 passes 66% in King County


For the complete article, go to:  seattletimes.newsource.com

Posted by Susan Kelleher, Janet I. Tu and Jonathan Martin

In an apparent victory for gay rights supporters, voters seemed to be approving Referendum 71, which expands the state’s domestic partnership law.

The results, if they hold, would be a disappointment to religious conservatives, who had mounted an aggressive campaign against conferring additional benefits on committed gay couples and some senior couples.

Ref. 71 passed overwhelmingly in King County and was being voted up throughout the Puget Sound region. Voters in Eastern Washington, meanwhile, were rejecting the measure by wide margins — including in Spokane County.