Posted on 10/04/2011 12:51:49 PM PDT by ¢ommon ¢ents
Senate Republicans tried to make Democrats hold a quick vote on President Obama's jobs-stimulus bill Tuesday, but were blocked by Senate Majority Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is sponsoring Mr. Obama's bill but who said other matters take priority.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
But still, the Dems refuse to bring it to a vote in the Senate today. If "a majority of the Senate" supports it, bring it to a vote and pass it.
The truth is, he doesn't have the votes.
I read that there are zero co-sponsors of this Jobs Bill in either the House or Senate. It has no support.
When will they be called obstructionist?
And there it is...DIMs say Jobs for American are not top priority.
Lead story on tonight’s Nightly News...
Gee even when we want to work with the President we get thwarted. Go figure!
when the House decided not to put it up for a vote, Obama complained. When the Senate decided to bring it up for a vote, the Democrats complained.
The Regime Media is busy “reporting” PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE!
Not one co-sponsor.
When will they be called obstructionist?
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Long as they can ‘blame’ the R’s, it will never happen.
The R’s should be ‘shouting from the rooftops’ to get this thing moving, so as ‘we’ can please the President.
Let some one come down on ‘Whispering Harry’. Of course, don’t hold your breath till either of the above take place.
Like someone had said a while back, take BO’s ‘bill’, pass it as written and when it fails, the blame can only sit in one place.
If it doesn’t fail, you can claim that without your help it never would have happened.
YOU KNOW, do like the D’s do.
However, change one comma and you have ‘revised’ his effort and he and ‘they’ will get away with blaming the R Congress for messing up.
Its all been one way so far - time to make it personal. Makes these assclowns defend their lies.
Pretending their advocacy reporting doesn't matter doesn't cut it any more.
Don’t count on it.
+100
I read that, too. No one wants to touch this with a 10 foot pole.
Correct
American Jobs Act of 2011
S.1549
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:s.1549:#
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry [NV] (by request) (introduced 9/13/2011)
Cosponsors (None)
Hasn’t threatened or twisted enough arms...however, being an election year, I doubt even threats will hold water.
Sponsor
Senator
Harry Reid
D-NV
No Co-Sponsors
No Committees found for this Bill
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s1549/show
Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Democratic Chairman John Larson introduced President Obama’s American Jobs Act (S. 1549 and H.R. 12, respectively).
“The President has drafted a plan that is focused on what the 14 million Americans who are out of work know they need - the simple dignity of a job,” Chairman Larson observed. “He deserves a vote on his plan in as timely a fashion as possible because those 14 million Americans can’t wait the 14 months until the next election for this to be resolved.”
http://www.afro.com/sections/opinion/story.htm?storyid=72653
September 28, 2011
American Jobs Act: No Co-Sponsors, No Problem
They call it the “Jobs Bill” or the “American Jobs Act”, but “Zero Liability” seems to be catching on as well.
What isn’t catching on is the bill itself, at least in the Legislature. The bill has been submitted, but not with a single co-sponsor in either the House or the Senate. It seems it wasn’t even submitted by choice.
…Connecticut Democratic Rep. John Larson has introduced President Barack Obama’s jobs plan in the House of Representatives “at the request of the president” and that the bill has no co-sponsors.
A bill that will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars with no co-sponsors that’s introduced “at the request of the president” doesn’t exactly lend credence to its contents. Then again, its contents weren’t even in existence when Obama waxed poetic for an hour about it earlier this month.
In his speech before Congress on September 8 to announce his $450 billion second stimulus, President Obama demanded over and over that Congress “pass this bill.” At the time he spoke those words, it later was revealed, there was no bill to pass—the White House had not finished drafting it.
The Democrats seem to publically support the bill but won’t put a single name on it, suggesting they are acutely aware of how unpopular co-sponsoring this load will be to their constituents come November next year.
http://thesource.typepad.com/thesource/2011/09/american-jobs-act-no-co-sponsors-no-problem.html
90 Second Summaries: Season 2, Episode 23
S. 1549: American Jobs Act of 2011
Introduced 9/13/2011
Sponsor: Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) on behalf of President Obama
Click here to download this summary (pdf)
Cosponsors: None
Status: Bypassed committees entirely upon introduction. Will likely be brought to Senate floor within the next couple of weeks, but unlikely to reach the 60-vote threshold on a motion to proceed to debate.
House Companion: H.R. 12, sponsored by Dem Caucus Chair John Larson (D-CT1) at the request of the President. No cosponsors. Referred to Ways and Means and ten other committees with partial jurisdiction. Highly unlikely to move barring a compromise deal.
Purpose: America currently faces two dueling crises: deficits and jobs. For most of this year, the focus in Washington has been on debt reduction and spending cuts, but such measures only serve to worsen the unemployment situation. Thus, in response to the August deal that paired a raise in the debt ceiling with substantial spending cuts and the formation of a “Super Committee” on deficit reduction, the outcry for federal action to create jobs has grown. President Obama responded with a major speech to Congress on September 8th, in which he announced the American Jobs Act.
Summary: The $447 billion American Jobs Act contains three major components:
1) Tax Cuts for Individuals and Businesses
• Cuts the employee payroll tax in half (from 6.2% to 3.1%) for 2012 (Cost: $175B)
• Cuts the employer payroll tax in half for the first $5 million of payroll for 2012, and completely eliminates the payroll tax for new employees. ($65B)
• Allows 100% expensing of business investments. ($5B)
• Offers a tax credit of up to $4,000 for businesses hiring workers unemployed for over six months. ($8B)
Total: $253 billion (56.6% of total)
2) Infrastructure and Investment Spending
• Aid to states in order to prevent teacher layoffs ($30B) and police and firefighter layoffs ($5B).
• Grants for modernization of K-12 school facilities ($25B) and community college facilities ($5B).
• Immediate investment in infrastructure, including highways ($27B), transit system repairs ($9B), intercity rail ($2B), high-speed rail ($4B), airports ($2B), air traffic modernization technology ($1B), and innovative multimodal transportation programs ($5B).
• Creation of a National Infrastructure Bank, modeled on the Kerry-Hutchison BUILD Act ($10B)
• Project Rebuild, designed to rehibilitate and repurpose foreclosed-upon properties in distressed communities ($15B)
• Development and implementation of a nationwide wireless broadband network ($7B) and reallocation of some spectrum for public safety purposes ($3B). The costs of this program would be offset by auctioning off spectrum.
Total: $140 billion (31.3% of total)
3) Help for Unemployed Americans
• Extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program and various extended benefit provisions through 2012.
• Reform of the unemployment insurance system to encourage the states to implement innovative reemployment assistance, work sharing, wage insurance and training programs for beneficiaries (Combined $49B).
• Creation of a Pathways Back to Work Fund designed to help low-income unemployed Americans find work ($5B).
• Prohibition of discrimination against the unemployed in hiring decisions.
Total: $54 billion (12.1% of total)
The bill also contains some offsets from tax increases targeted to upper-income Americans and ending oil and gas industry subsidies. To fully offset the cost of the legislation, it mandates the “Super Committee” to find an extra $450 billion in deficit reduction measures.
CBO Score: None provided.
Supporters: President Obama, most Democrats, infrastructure advocates, teachers and first responders, etc.
• Supporters see this as a win-win proposal, one that would create or save millions of American jobs and thus aid Democratic fortunes in the 2012 election cycle.
Opponents: most Republicans, Tea Party activists
• Many opponents believe only the private sector, not government, can create jobs, and the best way to turn the economy around is to shrink the government. Furthermore, they staunchly oppose to the taxes increases on the rich proposed as offsets. Some, however, simply see continued economic troubles as a boon for Republicans in 2012.
http://www.mainstreetinsider.org/90secondsummaries/?p=489
Question to Mr. Reid: your party is in control of the senate, did you block yourselves?
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