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12/17/09

Wednesday night Senator Reid asked to bring a close to HR3590, the Patient Protection Amendment debate, he then offered a motion to withdraw, the vote ayes59  38nays with 3Senators not voting… Byrd, Enzi and Chambliss, the vote would allow the Defense Spending Package HR3326 and HCR debates to resume at midnight after a recess.

After the midnight recess, the Senate voted …  Cloture vote; 63 ayes  33 nays was invoked and agreed to …  limiting the debate on the Defense Spending Package HR3326, debates could last up to 30hours. Democrats all voted yes,  3 Republican Senators voted with the Democrats… Collins, Hutchinson and Snowe.  The final vote could be taken on Saturday morning.

they adjourned until Friday morning …

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


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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.).

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Congress VOTES and UPDATES …


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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The O effect …


We may only have until 2011, but i feel something new, something different coming from Ms O after her show goes off the air waves.  In the weeks to come we will hear, like Ms O. stated a lot of  conjecture about why she decided to discontinue the Oprah Show.

I for one have watched her show religiously, found myself cracking up, felt sadness at the plight of children,women,men and families featured on the show, anxious when the topic was not quite PC and have been less than happy to hear the criticism that she feels she is god, preaches too much … so on and so forth.  I can’t say that i took any of the info and ran with it, it was good info and took what i thought might help me, never for one moment thought she was a god or goddess. she, is a person who has lived life, started out young knowing exactly what she wanted and did it… simple as that. She has worked, honed and crafted the gift of gab, she is a great interviewer, has a great staff; people feel comfortable around her, she is a well spoken orator most people truly are envious of. I am among those that got fired up when she helped so many accomplish their dreams of starting their own business, won’t forget the day she gave all those cars away or the trip she and gayle took…too funny

Ms O has exposed the viewer to things, issues, topics and people who quite possibly would have been left out of our lives and because of Ms O and her staff, a lot of us feel blessed we have followed this woman for all these years, undeniably she changed the way people see the written word, the spoken word not to mention when the word is sung… she has opened up the lives of so many, made a difference to women and while doing so has changed the lives of viewers all over the world.  Ms O  will never be forgotten…  i say… she still has some work do to.