Today in Washington – July 30, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | July 30th at 10:55 AM |
No roll call votes in Senate today. Cloture on TARP, Jr, H.R. 5297, was not invoked yesterday on a 58-42 vote. The Senate will have a cloture vote next week on the motion to concur with an amendment to H.R. 1586, the FAA Reauthorization bill. Reid is using the FAA bill as a shell to move this amendment to add $10 billion for education funds and a Medicaid funding provision. The nomination of anti-Second Amendment nominee Elena | Read More »
Today in Washington – July 29, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | July 29th at 10:00 AM |
The Senate is debating a bill today that includes bailouts for small business, TARP, Jr. The debate between right and left on this legislation is a great example of the big government versus small government approach to economic growth. H.R.5297, officially titled the “Small Business Jobs” bill, will spend another day on the Senate floor as the left pushes to retain the TARP bailout model for | Read More »
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This Week in Washington – July 19, 2010
By: Brian Darling (Diary) | July 19th at 11:00 AM |
Last week, WH Press Flack Robert Gibbs declared the House is lost and this week it was up to Vice President Joe Biden to bring a happy message to Democrats. Biden declared his opinion yesterday on This Week. “I don’t think the losses are going to be bad at all. I think we are going to shock the heck out of everybody.” AP reports: Vice President Joe | Read More »
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