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I just heard Sen. Harry Reid say, while listening to C-Span's live coverage of the debate on H.R. 1 (Economic Stimulus Package), that there are no businesses who are against this bill. Can any of you business owners, who are against this bill, please contact his office and let him know how wrong he is??? http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm Office Contacts I maintain three Nevada offices, in Las Vegas, Reno, and Carson City. Please locate the office closest to you. If you need to contact me directly, please go here. Carson City 600 East William Street, #302 Carson City, NV 89701 Phone: 775-882-7343...

The Vitter Amendment would have prohibited ACORN from receiving any stimulus money. However, the amendment failed 51-45. Thus, ACORN may receive our tax dollars.

Obama: We're in the worst recession since the Great Depression! We've got to take this serious. We must be bold. I know, let's bbq up some pork. Let's have a pork bbq big enough to feed the entire nation. But why stop there? Let's really be bold and bbq up enough pork to feed the entire world! I'm such a smart economist. All the rest of you only think you're economists. Now go vote yes on my pork bbq.

Debate Continues on Amendments to Stimulus Bill Today Senators continue debate on amendments to H.R. 1, the economic stimulus package. Law- makers have approved amendments to the bill that raises the estimated cost over $900 billionVote to be expected after 3PM Eastern time

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…unless your institution of higher learning is getting part of the massive (nearly $900-billion and counting) Obama/Reid/Pelosi stimulus proposal. Both versions of the bill, the House version (H.R. 1) that passed on Jan. 28 by a 244-188 margin, without a single Republican vote, and the Senate version (S. 336), which will probably be voted on in the next few days – include language that would “prohibit” modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities: (i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of...

H.R. 1 "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act"i.e.: The US Congress' Spend & Tax Free Lunch Act Well, here is what Obama wants. Read it. Highlight the pork.Then, call your Senators/Congressmen and tell 'em: "No way!"

January 29th, 2009 To the Congress of the United States As a citizen of this great country, I am writing to express to those who serve as Representatives and Senators in the 111th Congress of the United States, my concerns with supplemental appropriations bill H.R.1, which has passed the House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress sent President Bush legislation Friday to intensify anti-terror efforts in the U.S., shifting money to high-risk states and cities and expanding screening of air and sea cargo to stave off future Sept. 11-style attacks. The measure carries out major recommendations of the independent 9/11 Commission. The bill, passed by the House on a 371-40 vote, ranks among the top accomplishments of the six-month-old Democratic Congress. The Senate approved the measure late Thursday by 85-8, and the White House said the president would sign the bill. Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks and three years after...

Here are the nuts-and-bolts of what I think the Democrats will try to incrementally phase in. The Democrats passed H.R. 1, which requires all containers at U.S. ports be searched. This bill also authorizes the supposed beefing-up of security at U.S. airports. If my memory serves me, Tom Daschle proposed that certain Homeland Security personnel be allowed to unionize. Again, if my memory serves me, this idea was vigorously opposed by the Bush administration under the grounds that since unions inherently have the power to strike, potential future strikes would threaten our national security. Since the Dem-passed bill - H.R....