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Senate Votes, 91-9, to Avoid Government Shutdown -- for Now
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith a midnight deadline looming on Friday, the Senate voted, 91-9, to pass a stopgap funding measure Wednesday to keep the federal government operating through March 18. Because the House approved the same bill Tuesday, it immediately went to President Obama for his signature. The legislation, known as a continuing resolution (CR), will keep the lights on at federal agencies for the next two weeks while also retroactively cutting $4 billion from 2010 federal spending levels. The cuts had broad support because they took money from sources that Obama has already proposed to cut, such as ...
Majority Leader Harry Reid Among 'Most Liberal' Senators
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyNew rankings of the Senate's most liberal members -- a list including Harry Reid and powerful committee chairmen Carl Levin and Patrick Leahy -- suggest moderates are fading from the scene on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.), who was elected to a fifth term in November, has become more liberal in his voting record in the past three years, the National Journal said in its annual rankings. The magazine had the Senate leader as the 22nd most liberal lawmaker in 2009 and 25th on its list the year before that. Writer Ronald Brownstein said the vote ratings marked a peak in ...
GE's Jeffrey Immelt Tapped to Head Obama's Jobs Advisory Panel
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe Obama administration framed Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to Washington this week largely as a trade and jobs mission, and on Friday, President Obama used a trip to a General Electric plant in Schenectady, N.Y., to push hard again on the employment front. At the plant, Obama announced that Jeffrey Immelt, CEO and chairman of GE, will head a new advisory panel, the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. "Our challenge is to do everything we can to make it easier for folks to bring products to market and to start and expand new businesses, and to grow and hire new ...
Will Liberals Challenge Obama Amid the Snows of New Hampshire?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLiberal Democrats are, by nature and history, a perpetually disappointed voting bloc. They are either consigned to wail in the political wilderness (the Bush years and the Reagan years) or else the fruits of victory quickly sour on their tongues (the triangulating Bill Clinton). Liberal malaise again afflicts the body politic. According to a recent poll conducted by the Marist Institute for McClatchy News, Obama's approval rating among Democrats has fallen to 74 percent and to 69 percent among liberals. House Democrats are still seething over Obama's tax-cut compromise with congressional ...
Senate to Vote on Obama Tax Deal: Where Does Each Side Stand?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 13) -- The Senate will proceed with a cloture vote Monday afternoon on the Obama tax deal that contains something that everyone is sure to hate. The tax deal, a massive compromise that legislates a 13-month unemployment benefits extension for Americans out of work for up to 99 weeks in exchange for a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts, requires 60 votes to move to final debate in the Senate. Where do Washington's political factions stand on the deal? Surge Desk breaks down the debate. The White House Senior White House adviser David Axelrod visited three Sunday talk shows this ...
Opinion: So Who's Holding the Unemployed Hostage Now?
By John Merline - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- With Democrats threatening to block the Obama/Republican compromise on Bush-era tax cuts, does that mean they're the ones now holding the unemployed hostage until they get their way? That was, after all, the charge Democrats and others had often lodged against Republicans. Examples: Earlier this month, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said: "We could take a major step toward fixing our economy today if Republicans stopped holding the Senate hostage to more tax giveaways for millionaires." Last month, the liberal Daily Kos complained that the GOP was "holding 2 million ...
Sen. Jim DeMint Not Happy With Tax Compromise
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAs Patricia Murphy reported, liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) "threatened to filibuster the agreement in the upper chamber, calling it bad politics and bad policy." Now, some on the right are also speaking out against the compromise. As HotAir's Allah Pundit noted during an appearance on Hugh Hewitt's radio show on Tuesday, "[South Carolina Sen. Jim] DeMint lists several problems he has with the deal, but the big one is the fact that the cuts are temporary. Quote: 'We don't need a temporary economy, which means we don't need a temporary tax rate. A permanent extension of our current tax ...
Bernie Sanders Goes Viral Over Tax-Cut Deal [VIDEOS]
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(Dec. 7) -- Suddenly, he's everywhere. Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont indicated Monday that he may seek to filibuster the new deal struck between President Barack Obama and Republicans over keeping the Bush tax cuts in place for the wealthiest Americans in exchange for a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits for those Americans out of work for longer than six months. Sanders, who has described himself as a "socialist," spoke to liberal MSNBC host Ed Schultz about what he views as a betrayal. Days earlier, on the floor of the Senate, Sanders delivered an ...
Tax Cut Deal: Yet Another Thing Liberals Hate About Obama
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Dec. 7) -- President Barack Obama has struck a tentative deal with Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts -- and liberals are furious. While some pundits see the compromise as a necessary evil that still yielded some results for Democrats, many are attacking the president for giving ground to the GOP on yet another key issue. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is even going so far as to threaten a filibuster. "President Obama has shown a complete refusal to fight Republicans throughout his presidency even when the public is on his side, " Adam Greene, co-founder of the Progressive Change ...
Liberal Democrats Livid Over Tax-Cut Compromise; Sanders Threatens Filibuster
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyPresident Obama may have struck a compromise with congressional Republicans on tax cuts Monday, but he now has another group to worry about -- liberal Democrats in the House and Senate who are livid over the deal that they say betrays their most cherished values. "How can we rationalize tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans when were facing this kind of a deficit?" Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said in an interview with NPR Monday night. "There is a group [of Democrats] that may walk. Let's say at some point, 'You've gone too far.' " The tentative agreement that Obama announced Monday night ...
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