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Obama signs short-term highway bill, faults Congress for inaction
The Washington Times ^ | July 31, 2015 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 08/01/2015 8:16:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

President Obama signed a three-month highway bill Friday while chastising Congress for failing to approve long-term transportation funding and other legislative business before lawmakers’ summer vacation.

“We can’t keep on funding transportation by the seat of our pants,” Mr. Obama told reporters in the Oval Office. “It’s a bad way for the U.S. government to do business. I guarantee you that’s not how China, Germany and other countries around the world handle their infrastructure.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; gridlock; highwaybill; house; infrastructure; obama; senate; transportation
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1 posted on 08/01/2015 8:16:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yup; he actually wanted a five-year plan. He said it openly.


2 posted on 08/01/2015 8:21:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Hey B-Rock, what happened to the 1 trillion spent 7 years ago for those shovel ready jobs?


3 posted on 08/01/2015 8:21:56 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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I think that just went to Iran so they could bomb our ‘new roads’........


4 posted on 08/01/2015 8:23:08 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump....Make America Great Again....)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The highway bill is nothing more than a guaranteed slush fund for the DC Cartel.

What happened to all of 0bie’s shovel ready jobs from seven years ago? Oh, that’s right....they’ve ALL already absconded with that (taxpayer) $$.


5 posted on 08/01/2015 8:23:33 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How’s the 5 yr plan working out for electric cars? Solar power? 0DontCare?


6 posted on 08/01/2015 8:23:38 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

China does it with manual laborers paid a pittance and many of their projects don’t benefit the people anyway. They have trash and dead animals in their rivers, raw sewage pumped into them.


7 posted on 08/01/2015 8:25:50 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I think I read that there have been 34 of these short term bills....which brings us into the past when the Dems had both houses.


8 posted on 08/01/2015 8:37:18 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Cruz Won.


9 posted on 08/01/2015 8:44:05 PM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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“We can’t keep on funding transportation by the seat of our pants,”

Mmmm... that's exactly how the government has been funded ever since the DEMocraps took over Congress back during the Bush years....

10 posted on 08/01/2015 8:50:46 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

‘Hey! House Republicans! I promised a whole lot of money for those Democrat campaign fundraisers I went to, hurry up and approve so I can deliver on my billions for millions!’


11 posted on 08/01/2015 8:52:15 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Olog-hai
Да!

In all seriousness, I think he wanted a six-year plan.

12 posted on 08/01/2015 8:57:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Undecided 2012

Only a small portion of that money was actually allocated for “shovel-ready” highway jobs.


13 posted on 08/01/2015 8:58:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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Not even some libs liked that idea, noting that it committed Congress to spending beyond not only the president’s term but their own terms.


14 posted on 08/01/2015 8:58:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
**... I guarantee you that’s not how China, Germany and other countries around the world handle their infrastructure.**

Hussein's plan...


15 posted on 08/01/2015 9:19:30 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Waiting for the FIRST THING in six years that IS his fault.


16 posted on 08/01/2015 10:36:08 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Shovel ready recovery here we come!


17 posted on 08/01/2015 11:30:54 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“We can’t keep on funding transportation by the seat of our pants,”

You seem to be pulling your governance out of your a$$, Obama. If I were a Congressman, I'd stop every funding bill I could that would go to you.

Anything you want to do, fund, order or even think about, I want to stop.

18 posted on 08/02/2015 3:20:13 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Once again, he denigrates this country. What a horrible man.


19 posted on 08/02/2015 3:57:06 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Funny ow all the last-minute/continuing resolution/no budget crap really began in earnest under Dingy Harry as he and the Dims opted to go that route to protect Obama’s back and make it easier than ever for taxpayer money to disappear down the toilet....and Obama had no problem with it.


20 posted on 08/02/2015 4:22:47 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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