The stimulus bill passed the House of Representatives today. The vote was split strictly along party lines with not a single Republican voting for the bill. The House had passed a previous draft of the bill two weeks ago, but since that version was amended by the Senate, the House had to vote again on the present draft today.
Mel Martinez on Stimulus Bill
The House of Representatives passed the $787 billion stimulus bill 246-183. The Senate will also pass the bill within the next several days, as that was the deal signed behind closed doors by the Democrats. Representative Jack Kingston pointed out that this bill that supposedly doesn’t contain any earmarks, contains $30 million for the study of rats in the San Francisco Bay Area, which we reported on here. There is a lot more pork, which we pointed out here.
Several Republican lawmakers argued quite rightly today before the vote that the bill contains tens of thousands of payouts, and is thousands of pages long. Due to the size and length of the bill, no one in the House actually had the opportunity to read the full bill, as was pointed out in the debate on the House floor.
There is no focus in the spending measure. Essentially, it is an amalgamation of pork projects to those who cried the hardest and loudest in the last few weeks. The full text is available in the link below.
If you have nothing to do for the next 3 months or so, you might be able to get through it. Congress put this haphazard plan together and through in just two weeks, with little debate and without reading it.
There is a a “tax break” for Americans, which will average to about $13 a week for the average American worker. There is nothing to help with the foreclosure crisis or to help the overburdened American taxpayer.
The bill has $20 billion in tax incentives for renewable energy, which may help the economy 10 to 15 years down the road. It also expands a $2,500 tax credit for people who buy plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. There’s also a lot in there that no one has had the opportunity to properly consider or vet because we simply have not had the time to think about it.
See a video against the stimulus bill below. Congressman Mike Pence gives an eloquent speech against this ridiculous spending spree:
Mike Pence: Republican Against the Stimulus Bill
February 13th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
SOLD OUT BY DEMOCRATS! NO WONDER REPUBLICANS WHO ADDED THE E-VERIFY AMENDMENT, WOULDN’T VOTE FOR STIMULUS?
Whats the earthly good of this Stimulus bill being passed for American workers, when we are forced to support millions of illegal aliens. The Democrats and special interest lobby conspired to kill the only tool we had against the invasion. The Republican E-Verify amendment was removed from the Stimulus package behind closed doors without debate. The mandatory Federal law with a 99.6 success rate would have halted illegal aliens stealing work from AMERICAN WORKERS. We can thank Speaker Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid for killing this law that made sense, when the whole logical idea of this Stimulus bill, was to get millions of unemployed legal workers a job.
Tell the Democratic politicians what you think and demand E-Verify be made a mandate! Jam the Washington Switchboard with your angry voices: (202) 224-3121
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February 13th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
You know what makes me depressed. Obama originally applied for a job with the IRS I believe correct me if I’m wrong. And the guy turned him down. And that guy was recently on an interview on Fox and he said I regret not picking him. So that man should be public enemy number 1 for not hiring obama, because right now we could have no obama. Dam you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and also if you ever read this man who’s name I can no longer remember tell me what it was like to not hire a president.
February 13th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I’ve been going to every article asking this what’s the matter with Alan Keyes.
February 14th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Now about this stimulus bill it does nothing to stimulate the economy. I really think they just made it a thousand pages so nobody would read it.
Also I want to get some ideas of this 2012 line.
We will unite like Lincoin
We will progress like Roosevelt
We will lead like Easenhower
We will be conservative like Reagan
We will not follow the mistake of the past( showing a picture of Bush)
And we will do that in 2012
Now I do like Bush a lot, but just to stay safe.
February 15th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Oh and don’t forget! Thanks to our wonderful, all-observant Rush Limbaugh, remember that they put it in a pdf file so it would be IMPOSSIBLE TO SEARCH!!!!
Rush panders to ignorance. Unfortunately, there is a lot of it out there to pander too.
We see a lot of it right here.
February 15th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Arch.
WTF are you talkin about ?
I have the bill on PDF and it works just fine for me, if you’re willing to take the time.
Along with being incredibly vague in its descriptions of alocations and authors, thats the key issue anyone is faced with in actually unserstanding it.
Now whos the ignorant one ?
February 15th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
[...] to Rush Limbaugh’s argument against the Stimulus Plan below. As we reported here and as Limbaugh states quite eloquently, the Democrats in Congress passed the stimulus plan without [...]
February 18th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Rush obviously doesn’t know what a PDF file is. He uses his CD tray as a drink holder. You CAN read AND SEARCH a PDF file. E-Z!
February 18th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Lib Aw.
So what ?
The bill is still useless.