White House Reject Subpoena - Vote Pending on FCC's Overreach To Control of Internet
Today in Washington, D.C - Nov. 4, 2011:
Senate will reconvene on Monday. Vote is scheduled on cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 764, the bipartisan, House-passed bill to repeal a requirement that government contractors have 3% of their payments withheld for taxes.
Next week, as the deadline approaches for Congress to disapprove of the FCC’s net neutrality regulations, the Senate is expected to consider a resolution of disapproval, S. J. Res. 6.
Yesterday, Democrats failed to get 60 votes for their $60 billion infrastructure stimulus bill, which included $10 billion for an infrastructure bank and a tax hike on job creators and is opposed by jobs groups. The bill, S. 1769, attracted bipartisan opposition in a 51-49 vote. Following that vote, Democrats voted down a Republican alternative, S. 1786, which was paid for with unspent federal funds and included the REINS Act and other regulatory rollbacks to help employers. The bill failed 47-53. The Senate then voted 96-0 to confirm Scott Skavdahl to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of Wyoming.
The White House has considered itself above the rule of law and accountable to the constitutional oversight of Congress. In response a subpoena to secure information on the Solyndra scandal, the White House refused compliance. CNN Reports, "The White House counsel refused Friday to comply with a subpoena as issued by a House panel regarding the failed solar energy company Solyndra, saying that the initiative 'was driven more by partisan politics than a legitimate effort to conduct a responsible investigation.'"
The Washington Post writes today, “The Senate shot down another piece of President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill Thursday, as a stalemated Congress goes through the motions of attempting legislation to spur economic growth largely as a mechanism to allow each party to blame the other for the failure to act. The chamber failed to advance a measure to spend $50 billion on highway, rail, transit and airport improvements and another $10 billion as seed money for an infrastructure bank designed to spark private investment in construction.”
Politico reported yesterday, “The widely anticipated defeat of the Democrats’ Rebuild America Jobs Act, which would have provided $60 billion for transportation infrastructure projects, marked the third blow to President Barack Obama’s jobs agenda. His sweeping $447 billion jobs package was blocked by all Republicans and two Democrats last month, while a smaller piece of that legislation — $35 billion to pay the salaries of teachers, cops and firefighters — suffered the same fate.
Democrats’ latest stimulus bill was more of the same government spending that has failed to improve the economy paired with a job-killing tax hike. As Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell explained earlier this week, “There is no denying the fact that the policies of the past two and a half years have made a bad situation worse. For two and a half years, Democrats dominated this town. They got everything they wanted. And what happened? Unemployment has hovered above eight percent for 32 months. The so-called misery index is the worst it’s been in more than 25 years. Consumer confidence is at levels last seen during the height of the financial crisis. But if there’s one number that really stands out, it’s this: 1.5 million. That’s the number of fewer jobs we now have in this country since the day that President Obama signed his signature ‘jobs bill’ into law. . . . And what Republicans have been saying is that if we truly want to help improve the situation we’re in, if we really want to turn this ship around, then we need to learn from our mistakes and take a different approach. We know what policies haven’t worked. What sense does it make to try those same policies again? None.”
Those facts were only reinforced by today’s jobs report. CNBC writes, “The U.S. jobs market remained stuck in neutral during October, with the economy creating just 80,000 new jobs as the stubbornly high unemployment rate nudged lower. Amid few expectations that the employment picture has improved, government numbers Friday confirmed the obvious: The unemployment rate is stuck at 9.0 percent where it likely will be for many months to come. . . . The so-called real unemployment rate, which counts discouraged and underemployed workers, dropped to 16.2 percent from 16.5 percent. That's the same rate as in August. They were tepid gains, though, for a jobs market that remains a far cry from indicating growth.”
Next week, Senate Democrats will have the opportunity to take ‘yes’ for an answer, and support a bipartisan jobs bill. Instead of advancing the same stimulus spending bills designed for political messaging that attract bipartisan opposition, on Monday, the Senate will vote on a bill to help job creators that has bipartisan support. The bill, which would eliminate a burdensome requirement that government contractors have 3% of their payments withheld for taxes, passed the House with over 400 votes, and has support from President Obama. The bill is being sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA). Will Democrats vote for it or decide again that politics is more important?
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Senate will reconvene on Monday. Vote is scheduled on cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 764, the bipartisan, House-passed bill to repeal a requirement that government contractors have 3% of their payments withheld for taxes.
Next week, as the deadline approaches for Congress to disapprove of the FCC’s net neutrality regulations, the Senate is expected to consider a resolution of disapproval, S. J. Res. 6.
Yesterday, Democrats failed to get 60 votes for their $60 billion infrastructure stimulus bill, which included $10 billion for an infrastructure bank and a tax hike on job creators and is opposed by jobs groups. The bill, S. 1769, attracted bipartisan opposition in a 51-49 vote. Following that vote, Democrats voted down a Republican alternative, S. 1786, which was paid for with unspent federal funds and included the REINS Act and other regulatory rollbacks to help employers. The bill failed 47-53. The Senate then voted 96-0 to confirm Scott Skavdahl to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of Wyoming.
The White House has considered itself above the rule of law and accountable to the constitutional oversight of Congress. In response a subpoena to secure information on the Solyndra scandal, the White House refused compliance. CNN Reports, "The White House counsel refused Friday to comply with a subpoena as issued by a House panel regarding the failed solar energy company Solyndra, saying that the initiative 'was driven more by partisan politics than a legitimate effort to conduct a responsible investigation.'"
The Washington Post writes today, “The Senate shot down another piece of President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill Thursday, as a stalemated Congress goes through the motions of attempting legislation to spur economic growth largely as a mechanism to allow each party to blame the other for the failure to act. The chamber failed to advance a measure to spend $50 billion on highway, rail, transit and airport improvements and another $10 billion as seed money for an infrastructure bank designed to spark private investment in construction.”
Politico reported yesterday, “The widely anticipated defeat of the Democrats’ Rebuild America Jobs Act, which would have provided $60 billion for transportation infrastructure projects, marked the third blow to President Barack Obama’s jobs agenda. His sweeping $447 billion jobs package was blocked by all Republicans and two Democrats last month, while a smaller piece of that legislation — $35 billion to pay the salaries of teachers, cops and firefighters — suffered the same fate.
Democrats’ latest stimulus bill was more of the same government spending that has failed to improve the economy paired with a job-killing tax hike. As Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell explained earlier this week, “There is no denying the fact that the policies of the past two and a half years have made a bad situation worse. For two and a half years, Democrats dominated this town. They got everything they wanted. And what happened? Unemployment has hovered above eight percent for 32 months. The so-called misery index is the worst it’s been in more than 25 years. Consumer confidence is at levels last seen during the height of the financial crisis. But if there’s one number that really stands out, it’s this: 1.5 million. That’s the number of fewer jobs we now have in this country since the day that President Obama signed his signature ‘jobs bill’ into law. . . . And what Republicans have been saying is that if we truly want to help improve the situation we’re in, if we really want to turn this ship around, then we need to learn from our mistakes and take a different approach. We know what policies haven’t worked. What sense does it make to try those same policies again? None.”
Those facts were only reinforced by today’s jobs report. CNBC writes, “The U.S. jobs market remained stuck in neutral during October, with the economy creating just 80,000 new jobs as the stubbornly high unemployment rate nudged lower. Amid few expectations that the employment picture has improved, government numbers Friday confirmed the obvious: The unemployment rate is stuck at 9.0 percent where it likely will be for many months to come. . . . The so-called real unemployment rate, which counts discouraged and underemployed workers, dropped to 16.2 percent from 16.5 percent. That's the same rate as in August. They were tepid gains, though, for a jobs market that remains a far cry from indicating growth.”
Next week, Senate Democrats will have the opportunity to take ‘yes’ for an answer, and support a bipartisan jobs bill. Instead of advancing the same stimulus spending bills designed for political messaging that attract bipartisan opposition, on Monday, the Senate will vote on a bill to help job creators that has bipartisan support. The bill, which would eliminate a burdensome requirement that government contractors have 3% of their payments withheld for taxes, passed the House with over 400 votes, and has support from President Obama. The bill is being sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA). Will Democrats vote for it or decide again that politics is more important?
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STOP Obama, stop un, stop grants, doles and subsides, stop immigration not useful for the Nation, stop stop OPEC, stop complaining, let's go back acting and winning again : it is again morning, in America.
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