Posted on 09/08/2021 5:17:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — In a race against the clock, Democratic leaders in Congress are working frenetically to craft a multitrillion-dollar bill to expand the social safety net with plans to hit the gas and start moving it through the House this week.
The House Ways and Means Committee released hundreds of pages of legislative text Tuesday and announced hearings on Thursday and Friday. The bill would include 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all workers; expanded Medicare benefits to add dental, hearing and vision coverage; and new investments to bolster nursing homes and long-term care, among other provisions.
"We're at a place where the rubber is hitting the road in terms of shaping the policy and fine-tuning everything and really racing toward those deadlines," said a senior Democratic aide, adding that the Senate hopes to vote on the bill by Sept. 27. "We're obviously setting an ambitious timeline, but we're moving forward to meet it."
The aide said Democrats can move rapidly because many of the policies had been developed over years before they became part of President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign platform, giving the party a foundation to work from when it took power in January.
In a memo to congressional offices Tuesday, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Republicans who oppose Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda are fighting to protect the rich, describing the goal of the plan as "leveling the playing field to ensure the wealthiest and corporations pay their fair share and working families get a fighting chance to succeed and prosper in this country."
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Democrats want Government Dependence, which is a way to buy votes with tax money.
The Biden admin could go down in history — if anyone is left to actually write that history — as America’s suicidal regime.
The year Ben Franklin’s implied dark prophecy came true.
They are full of gas sure enough!
Democrats have timed this perfectly - we have seven million people losing their enhanced unemployment benefits and the de facto expiration of the eviction moratorium on Labor Day, which will now be known as Unemployment Day
“The bill would include 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all workers”
Throw in Vacation time and people are gone from there jobs 30% of the year, pure insanity. Believe me the criteria to take those twelve weeks will be loose. My last 9 to 5 job was managing 35+ Electronic Technicians / Assemblers. Those folks had specific Doctors on speed dial whom would take them off work for a hang nail.
Impeach 46.
There are help wanted signs everywhere, people finally have to go back to work.
12 weeks of PAID family/medical leave...
See the coming bankruptcies in your local paper.
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