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#1 Stimulus passes House; Amendments and Quotes.

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The bill passed after amendment consideration, 244-188. The GOP all obediently licked Boehner's Boner and voted No. One amongst them, one of those 'Twitter is how we shall crush the filthy liberals' loonies, has posted this:
Interesting! The bi partisan vote on stimulus was no. It wasn't the winning vote but the only vote that received both R and D votes.
Bipartisan, apparently, is more important than a clean bill providing net-gain investments into the country.

The last amendment, alotted 60 minutes, was to try and literally remove everything prior and replace it with GOP humping points. A quote during the debate:
“I’m glad, however, that they’ve offered this alternative because it puts in clear relief what their priorities are - take money away from 95% of the American public and invest in the few who need it the least. Take money away from 4 million students who would have this tax relief. And my favorite, is actually continue to game the alternative minimum tax to purposely push more people into it, with tax gimmicks -rather than work with us in fundamental tax reform that doesn’t subject more people, and give us this biannual charade.â€
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Only thing I can say is.

Fuck the GOP...glad the stimulus passed the House.

Now onto the Senate
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One down, one to go.
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As has no doubt been noticed, I view the Stimulus bill as outrageously important. As a result, I think it should receive quite a bit of board-time. I'm mostly curious as to whether anyone thinks I'm posting too much on it, or, equally important, if I should continue to document the various flaming hoops and developments.
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go ahead and devote as much time as you want to it Nitram, it is indeed extremely important to the US right now.
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Dark Silver wrote:go ahead and devote as much time as you want to it Nitram, it is indeed extremely important to the US right now.
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