Posted on 02/10/2009 3:27:56 AM PST by Zakeet
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said that the Senate version of the $828-billion-plus stimulus bill must emerge from a House-Senate conference committee "virtually intact" to win his support for final passage.
The bill secured one more than the 60 votes necessary to schedule an end to Senate debate on the measure and schedule a final vote on it, which is set to take place today.
Only two other Republican Senators -- Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins both of Maine--joined Specter in siding with all 58 Senate Democrats on Monday in voting to end debate on the stimulus package and bring it to the floor for approval. From there, it will go to a conference committe to reconcile it with the House version of the bill. The bill that is approved by the House-Senate conference committee will then return to both chambers for a fina vote.
“My support for the Conference Report on the stimulus package will require that the Senate compromise bill come back virtually intact including, but not limited to, overall spending, the current ratio of tax cuts to spending, and the $110 billion in cuts,” Specter told CNSNews.com in a statement.
Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expressed displeasure with some cuts in the package made by Senate Democrats to attract liberal Republicans, whose votes are needed to get the bill through the Senate.
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I have no idea why it’s done that way, but we’ve seen it many times over the past 8 or 12 years.
“It’s just the way it is.”
;-)
Can you explain this poll from Fox News yesterday?
The Obama administration pointed to a new Gallup poll Monday in arguing that the public is still on their side.
The poll found Obama had a 67 percent approval rating for the way he was handling the stimulus. But the same was not true for those in Congress. Democrats had a 48 percent approval rating and Republicans had just a 31 percent approval rating for the way they were handling the process.
If he changed his vote he would be reelected. Perhaps this is all a Kabuki Dance?
Pray for America and Our Troops
It's a Gallup poll. No further explanation should be necessary....
Making a big issue of this medical provision could peel a few people off the final vote, perhaps from both sides.
LLS
Oh don’t worry you RINO Specter (D), it will come out of conference intact and then some. He, Snow and Collins may as well change their party affiliation to D
"My support for the Conference Report on the stimulus package will require that the Senate compromise bill come back virtually intact including, but not limited to, overall spending, the current ratio of tax cuts to spending, and the $110 billion in cuts," Specter told CNSNews.com in a statement.
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