Republicans''YouCut' Gimmick Leads Them To Propose Ending Successful Jobs Program
Last week, House Republicans launched a gimmicky website called “ YouCut ,” which asked visitors to vote on which item out of a pre-chosen set they would like to see axed from the federal Budget. Republicans promised to bring a bill to the House floor nixing the item that received the most votes.
The problem with this is two-fold. For starters, eliminating every single one of the proposed YouCut items would amount to cutting 0.017 percent of the federal Budget. This highlights...
Cantor intends to eliminate jobs program
Cantor INTENDS TO ELIMINATE Jobs PROGRAM.... If House Republicans follow through on their promise, they'll try to force a floor vote today on eliminating the $2.5 billion Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Contingency Fund. It's the result of House Minority Whip Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) "YouCut" gimmick -- and it's a spectacularly bad idea.
If you're just joining us, Cantor's new toy was launched last week -- Republicans will pick Government programs they don't like, and then...
GOP's "YouCut" Contest: We Have a Winner
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AP)
The votes are in and there's a winner in the GOP's new effort to show Americans that Republicans are serious about cutting wasteful spending and want to get people involved in that process.
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (pictured) launched YouCut one week ago and invited viewers to vote on one of five spending cuts that Republicans would bring to the House Floor for an up or down vote each week.
Cantor's office said that there were over 280,000 votes cast. Which program did...
The Early Word: On to Conference
The Senate passed its own broad financial legislation on Thursday, meaning Congress could potentially send a final Bill to President Obama within weeks.
As The Times’s David Herszenhorn reports, the Senate and the House do have some differences to reconcile, but the two versions have much in common — making it “ virtually certain that Congress will adopt the most sweeping regulatory overhaul since the aftermath of the Great Depression.”
The White House has indicated...
A Tale of Two Presidents
The Plague
, by Albert Camus. Remember
that book? It is a gritty rendition of the last major outbreak of
bubonic plague, which took place in Algeria in the early 1950s. I
read it as a teenager and remember no details, only the mood,
heavy but hurtling forward, like a boulder in an avalanche. I
particularly recall learning here the word "recrudescence." Now,
an insight I once experienced concerning that book helps me to
understand the turnabout in Democrat fortunes.
The facts themselves are...
Rep. Cantor's "YouCut" Aims To Slash Jobs Program
Last week, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced
a new Republican effort to eliminate wasteful spending called "YouCut." The program allows Americans to vote online
for spending cuts they want to see enacted, although critics have dismissed it
as another " gimmick "
that won't actually lead to significant savings.
Yesterday, Cantor announced the results of YouCut's first installment. As reported by Roll Call :
Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) announced Tuesday...
Rep. Cantor's "YouCut" Aims To Slash Jobs Program
Last week, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced
a new Republican effort to eliminate wasteful spending called "YouCut." The program allows Americans to vote online
for spending cuts they want to see enacted, although critics have dismissed it
as another " gimmick "
that won't actually lead to significant savings.
Yesterday, Cantor announced the results of YouCut's first installment. As reported by Roll Call :
Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) announced Tuesday...
Cuomo would replace Empire Zones
ALBANY—Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, in his upcoming gubernatorial campaign, will propose replacing the controversial Empire Zone program, due to expire next month, with a new effort to lure out-of- State companies and creating a Corporate Tax-credit program his advisers say will encourage the hiring of 165,000 unemployed people over two years.
Cuomo, who is expected to announce his candidacy as early as this weekend, will unveil his Jobs package for a Recession-battered State that has...
Cantor YouCut contest results nominate emergency welfare spending for chop block
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor invited Americans to vote on government programs they’d like Cut. One week and 280,000 text messages and online votes later, the first results are in : an emergency welfare fund that in some cases has been used by poor families to buy iPods.
The first program to be nominated for the chopping block through Cantor's YouCut contest is the Emergency Contingency Fund for State TANF Programs .
Out of more than 280,000 votes cast, over 81,000 People, or 29...
Progressive Breakfast: What's Next For Wall Street Reform?
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what Progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, Health Care, green Energy, Financial Reform, affordable education and Retirement security.
After Senate Passage, Lobbyists Eye House-Senate Conference
Bill now heads to conference to be reconciled with House version. TPMDC's Brian Beutler on what to expect: "...House and Senate aides expect that the legislation the President signs will call for several,...
Reg reform: 'unlimited bailouts,' income 'social justice,' says GOP senator (TRANSCRIPT)
Sen. Richard Shelby, Alabama Republican and the ranking Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee, gave a final speech on the Senate floor Thursday in advance of the final vote to pass a Financial Regulation bill, which passed later in the evening.
Here is the full text of Shelby’s speech:
"Mr. President, we are nearing the end of the Senate's consideration of an historic piece of legislation. In response to the most significant Financial Crisis this country has seen in a...
California: The Frog in the Sub-Prime Frying Pan
Just as a frog will jump out of a hot frying pan, but will sit in water that slowly goes from cold to hot until he cooks to death; California's politicians have sat quietly as the accumulation of chronic Budget Deficits bubbling up from an uncomfortably warm problem to a scalding hot Crisis.
House Democrats, Republicans trade barbs over welfare program
The e-mail channels lit up Tuesday afternoon as House Democrats and Republicans sparred over a proposal to cut
U.S. Senate passes massive Wall Street regulation bill
Washington - Prodded by national anger at Wall Street, the Senate on Thursday passed the most far-reaching restraints on big Banks since the Great Depression. In its broad sweep, the massive Bill would touch Wall Street CEOs and first-time homebuyers, high-flying traders and small town lenders.
The 59-39 vote represents an important achievement for President Barack Obama, and comes just two months after his Health Care overhaul became law. The Bill must now be reconciled with a House version...
Friday Morning Coffee and Links
Good Morning Conflucians!!!
I’m enjoying holding up in the house for awhile.
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