Hear ye hear ye! Jobs Bill passes in Washington with bipartisan support!
Five republicans in the Senate including newly elected Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts voted with 59 democrats to push a modest jobs bill through to conference committee.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s version of the Jobs Bill is one lean chunk of change, only $15 billion, compared to the House version which calls for a $150 billion investment. But the bill looks to do some unarguably helpful things. The $15-billion proposal includes a payroll tax holiday for new hires, re-authorizes the highway trust fund to build roads, and creates a bond issue to finance construction of schools and energy projects. The bill will now go through conference committee, whose job it is to somehow marry the Senate and House bills.
Great job U.S. Senate! If only we could give everyone of you who voted for this bill a gold star for playing nice and getting along. Yes, we are alluding to some infantile behavior in recent weeks, but for the most part, we’re serious. This is a great accomplishment for the Senate. We totally understand that you have to compromise a lot to get very little done in Washington. To be honest, we’re fine with that, but we commend you for doing something.
More than the actual good it will do as a bill, we’re excited about the shift in the GOP’s pattern of blockading anything and everything that democrats try to do. We at the Lamp Post Group would like to congratulate all the senators who voted for this $15 billion injection into the economy. We especially commend the Republican senators who stepped up to show support alongside the democrats.
Good work deserves good rewards. In elementary school my teachers used pizza parties as a reward for good behavior. As such, why not make it so that if the Senate can go two weeks without another filibuster, the United States will have a national pizza party day. But if the senators keep fighting, there’s going to be timeout during their recess…
Isn’t that coming up soon…?
That might be something to bring up during the congratulate a senator challenge! Take a minute out of your day to call up a senator’s office, especially one of the republicans, who supported this measure.
The republican senators are Sen. Scott Brown of MA, Christopher Bond MO, Susan Collins MN, Olympia Snowe MN, and George Voinovich OH.
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