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Senate Farewells Sound Familiar Warning: Partisanship Is Ruining Us
By Linda Killian - Politics DailyOver the past few weeks, many of those leaving the U.S. Senate -- either voluntarily or by defeat -- have given a farewell address, something of a Senate tradition. The speeches have been remarkable for their similarity. Not in terms of thanking staff and family members and recounting memorable moments or greatest hits of a legislative career. Most of the senators did those things. Rather, they have been remarkable for the warning most of them have sounded about the dismal state of the nation's body politic. Intense partisanship. The lost art of compromise. The vast sums of cash needed ...
Retiring Senator: Lawmakers Spend Up to 25 Percent of Time Raising Dough
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFarewell speeches in the United States Senate tend to be emotional and not very newsy. But Sen. George Voinovich, an Ohio Republican who is retiring after two terms, offered a shiny nugget the other day about the relentless push for lawmakers to solicit campaign money. It eats up a ton of time -- time taken away from legislating. "It is my estimate that 20 to 25 percent of a senator's time is spent on raising billions of dollars," Voinovich said Wednesday. "And with it comes the negative fallout in terms of the public's view of Congress bowing to contributions and special interests." ...
Republican George Voinovich Says He'll Oppose Deal on Bush Tax Cuts
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySen. George Voinovich, a senior Republican and self-professed "deficit hawk," says he will oppose President Obama's deal with the GOP leadership on extending Bush-era tax cuts -- or any other scheme for keeping the tax relief in place -- unless such a plan is paid for. Voinovich, a lame duck operating in a lame-duck session, said at an Aspen Institute luncheon Monday, "I'm voting against everything." To make himself perfectly clear, Voinovich repeated: "You've' got to pay for it; you've got to pay for it; you've got to pay for it." The Ohioan has little to lose. He is retiring after two ...
Right for America or Wrong for Illegals? DREAM Act Takes Center Stage
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe most ardent proponents of the DREAM Act know their chances of victory in the next few weeks are slim, but they also know that failure is pretty much inevitable if they wait until next year. Thus we are in the midst of a full-court press on yet another cause that once had substantial bipartisan support, but may not any longer. DREAM, expected to come up for a vote in the year-end lame-duck session of Congress, is catchy shorthand for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. Translation: The act would offer a path to citizenship – and economic prosperity -- for undocumented ...
Obama Signs Small Business Bill Into Law
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(Sept. 27) -- President Barack Obama today signed into law a chain of tax cuts for small businesses and up to $14 billion in federally funded loans aimed at stimulating job creation, in what's likely to be the government's last bid to boost the economy before the midterm elections. Enactment of the Small Business Jobs Act, passed with the support of just two Republicans in the Senate and one in the House, comes at a time when economic growth has yet to generate enough momentum to replace the more than 8 million jobs taken by the recession -- the majority from small businesses. A dearth of ...
Senate Clears Hurdle for Small-Business Measure
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- Senate Democrats cracked a months-long GOP filibuster of a bill to provide new loans and tax breaks for small businesses after two Republicans broke with their party to back a measure President Barack Obama has promoted as one of his top economic priorities. Republican Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and George LeMieux of Florida today joined a unanimous Democratic caucus in the 61-37 vote to close debate on the Small Business Jobs Act. The bill would create a $30 billion fund that community banks can access for loans to small businesses and provides some $12 billion in tax ...
As Ohio Goes, So Go the Midterms -- and Possibly 2012
By Linda Killian - Politics DailyIn this "swingiest of swing states," as one Ohioan described the Buckeye State to me recently, no political party has a lock on voters' affections. Politicians have to earn it, election by election. And right now, the advantage that Democrats won in 2008 with Barack Obama's victory and the pickup of U.S. and state House seats is seriously threatened. If current polls are correct and the election were held tomorrow, it's a good bet the GOP would sweep the board in Ohio, taking back the governorship, at least a couple of U.S. House seats, the state House and hold onto the U.S. Senate seat ...
Obama: Give Democrats Time to Fix the Economy
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(Sept. 10) -- President Barack Obama accused Republicans of playing political games instead of pitching in to fix the economy, and asked impatient voters to give a Democratic-controlled Congress more time to crank up the economic recovery. "For all the progress we've made, we're not there yet, and that means that people are frustrated, and that means people are angry," Obama said at his first full news conference in three months, as campaigning picks up ahead of the midterm congressional elections. "Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's ...
Obama Praises GOP Senator for Backing Stalled Small Biz Jobs Bill
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyA senior Republican senator, Ohio's George Voinovich, says he will support a small business jobs bill backed by President Obama because the "country is really hurting" and the Senate cannot afford to wait. Voinovich's vote would give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid the 60 he needs to break any Republican filibuster and move ahead with the bill when Congress returns from recess next week. It comes on the condition that the Senate also consider an amendment that would reduce the amount of paperwork required of business owners on Main Street, the Washington Post reported. No other Republicans ...
Murkowski Loss Underscores Trend: Appropriators Are Biting the Dust
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyNow that Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has conceded, she has become the latest victim of a growing trend: Appropriations Committee members who have lost this year. Once thought of as a powerful committee for members wanting to "bring home the bacon," in today's political environment sitting on an appropriations panel seems to be an albatross. "Earmarking is a corrupt practice, plain and simple," says Andy Roth, a vice president at the conservative Club for Growth. "Voters understand that, but insecure politicians do not. And that's why the old adage that pork buys you votes doesn't work. It ...
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