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By Brian Schneider - Politics DailyRepublican Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn trashed the Obama administration's $862-billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, saying it plunged future generations into unmanageable debt and was filled with waste and fraud. With the August recess just a few days away, the two senators took a last-minute swing at Obama by releasing "Summertime Blues: 100 Stimulus Projects that Give Taxpayers the Blues." "There's going to be $50 billion in fraud from this bill," Coburn (R-Okla.) said. "We highlight things that we think are stupid and inappropriate." Both lawmakers stressed that the purpose of the ...
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's Plans: Jobs, Wine and Oil
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyVirginia's new Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, has ambitious plans for his state. He wants to put young Virginians back to work, make Virginia the first East Coast state to drill offshore, and to compete with California to become the wine capital of the United States. McDonnell made these points in his keynote address to the inaugural conference of the American Action Forum, which its Web site calls a new voice for "center-right ideas and action." With jobs as the focus of the conference, the governor said that "the scariest unemployment statistic we face" is the hidden unemployment ...
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