S.1549 not a single cosponsor..

[Hicup]

S.1549
Latest Title: American Jobs Act of 2011
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry [NV] (by request) (introduced 9/13/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills: H.R.12, H.R.2421, H.R.2482, H.R.2948, S.652, S.1333, S.1597
Latest Major Action: 9/14/2011 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 165.


Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:s1549:#

Not a single cosponsor?

Not a single democrat will sponsor this bill, and Harry Reid has his name on it by "request" of the President..

umm.. This bill doesn't have a chance in hell, even democrats want it to go away..


Tim-

 

[Samhain]

The President and Democrats are going to have a hard sell on the position of "Republicans are blocking the jobs bill".

Budgets bills need a simple majority in the senate, and Democrats can't even find that.

 

[OrphanSlug]

The President and Democrats are going to have a hard sell on the position of "Republicans are blocking the jobs bill".

Budgets bills need a simple majority in the senate, and Democrats can't even find that.

Yet, that is exactly what Obama is doing in calling out Cantor for being against the "Jobs Bill package" as put forward before Reid's handling of the issue for the Senate. This is just a step in all of the political maneuvering going on with no real interest in doing something that has a chance at being realized legislation. Reid, speak of, wanting a 5% surtax on millionaires is just asking for further division and a probable lack of getting votes on both sides of the isle for this to all just even see a vote to debate on the floor. It is an active step in the class warfare going on from both sides of the isle. But all evidence suggests this will be dead on arrival in the House telling all of us, well in advance, this is a political statement for a campaign season well underway. What all of this is not, is some honest effort to do something. And that includes Obama's intentions, they are anything but an honorable effort at legislation intended to be realized. It was intended to be a campaign moment, one of many to come.

 

[Hicup]

Well, yeah, anyone with half a brain realizes this.. Problem is that ever see any of those "person on the street" type interviews? My faith in the American electorate isn't rosey..


Tim-

 

[BmanMcfly]

S.1549
Latest Title: American Jobs Act of 2011
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry [NV] (by request) (introduced 9/13/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills: H.R.12, H.R.2421, H.R.2482, H.R.2948, S.652, S.1333, S.1597
Latest Major Action: 9/14/2011 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 165.


Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:s1549:#

Not a single cosponsor?

Not a single democrat will sponsor this bill, and Harry Reid has his name on it by "request" of the President..

umm.. This bill doesn't have a chance in hell, even democrats want it to go away..


Tim-

This is why there needs to be the ability to start a vote of no confidence....

 

[Hicup]

This is why there needs to be the ability to start a vote of no confidence....

Sometimes I wonder if a parlimentary type system for federal government wouldn't be a bad idea..


Tim-

 

[X Factor]

Isn't this the very same jobs bill that Obama says needs to be passed RIGHT NOW?

 

[Ockham]

Isn't this the very same jobs bill that Obama says needs to be passed RIGHT NOW?

Yes it is... and what's the President saying about this bill? Could it be that he's blaming the House Republicans for it? This my friends is what is called 100% rhetorical spin.

[video]http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7383449n[/video]

 

[OrphanSlug]

Isn't this the very same jobs bill that Obama says needs to be passed RIGHT NOW?

For the most part. Reid has his own take on this with additions he is looking for, from the OP causing issues. And at this stage there is little effort the House will even let the bill be debated (Obama's original or Reid's edited version.)

 

[Hicup]

For the most part. Reid has his own take on this with additions he is looking for, from the OP causing issues. And at this stage there is little effort the House will even let the bill be debated (Obama's original or Reid's edited version.)

It's not just the house, it's the Senate as well, and reid knows it. He's playing politics by saying he has a majority in the Senate to pass the bill. Yeah if every damn dim voted yay, small problem though, 1/3 of them are up for reelection come Novemeber 2012.. In other words, Reid is stalling. Why is he stalling? To keep the bill in the media for as long as he can or until he can find a way out for his senate democrats to support the bill without actually having to vote on it.


Tim-

 

[whysoserious]

I have not really been keeping up with the news on this bill. Would anyone mind telling me what it is about this bill that sucks so much?

 

[AdamT]

I have not really been keeping up with the news on this bill. Would anyone mind telling me what it is about this bill that sucks so much?

There's nothing wrong with the bill -- it should be a no brainer. It extends payroll tax cuts, provides funding for infrastructure jobs, and pays for it by limiting itemized deductions for those earning over $250k/family. It's estimated that it would boost GDP by 1-2% and create over a million jobs, providing strong insurance against a double dip recession next year.

It's opposed by Republicans because they oppose everything Obama proposes, and because they are bound and determined to repeat the errors of Herbert Hoover. Some Dems oppose it because it doesn't address real estate foreclosures, and others because they've bought into the Republicans' deficit hysteria.

But Obama did the right thing by putting it on record. In the past Republicans whined because Obama didn't put it in writing, even though whatever IT was didn't have a snowball's chance of passing. They said, "but it would be a starting point! If he submits it they'll have something to negotiate!" Now that he's submitted a plan the refrain is that it has no chance of passing. No talk about negotiating anything, of course.

So it is political, of course. We desperately need something like this, but the current crop of legislators are incapable of doing *anything*. These teabaggers will have to go if this country is to have any chance of avoiding a decade-long morass.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

I guess if this bill fails, it will be Bush's fault, right?

 

[Samhain]

There's nothing wrong with the bill -- it should be a no brainer. It extends payroll tax cuts, provides funding for infrastructure jobs, and pays for it by limiting itemized deductions for those earning over $250k/family. It's estimated that it would boost GDP by 1-2% and create over a million jobs, providing strong insurance against a double dip recession next year.

It's opposed by Republicans because they oppose everything Obama proposes, and because they are bound and determined to repeat the errors of Herbert Hoover. Some Dems oppose it because it doesn't address real estate foreclosures, and others because they've bought into the Republicans' deficit hysteria.

But Obama did the right thing by putting it on record. In the past Republicans whined because Obama didn't put it in writing, even though whatever IT was didn't have a snowball's chance of passing. They said, "but it would be a starting point! If he submits it they'll have something to negotiate!" Now that he's submitted a plan the refrain is that it has no chance of passing. No talk about negotiating anything, of course.

So it is political, of course. We desperately need something like this, but the current crop of legislators are incapable of doing *anything*. These teabaggers will have to go if this country is to have any chance of avoiding a decade-long morass.

The bill also counts 1 trillion in "savings" by not being in Afghanistan or Iraq in 2021. Stop a think about that for just one second, then you see why the bill is DOA.

Not only is it DOA in the House, but its DOA in the Democratic Party controlled Senate.

Obama put on the record his inability to write budget neutral legislation.

 

[MaggieD]

S.1549
Latest Title: American Jobs Act of 2011
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry [NV] (by request) (introduced 9/13/2011) Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills: H.R.12, H.R.2421, H.R.2482, H.R.2948, S.652, S.1333, S.1597
Latest Major Action: 9/14/2011 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 165.


Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:s1549:#

Not a single cosponsor?

Not a single democrat will sponsor this bill, and Harry Reid has his name on it by "request" of the President..

umm.. This bill doesn't have a chance in hell, even democrats want it to go away..


Tim-

We are soooo screwed. Both sides are scared to death of losing elections next year. It's not about doing what's best for the country. It's about being an ostrich with one's head in the sand until after next November. They alllll make me sick.

Those protestors in the financial district? They belong in Washington.

 

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

I guess if this bill fails, it will be Bush's fault, right?

The Bush-brand is forever tarnished. The current Tea Party conservatives are responsible IMO as they have made it impossible for any compromise-to-pass-legislation to be done so that both sides have a voice and the country moves forward.

 

[coolwalker]

I think that since the inception of America we have introduced and passed more bills than are necessary. Each one is like a nail in a coffin, then someone has to pass another to stop the one before it. How about no new bills for one year and try to actually work on straightening out the economy. Without money we will all be in a soup line and don't think for a minute that is not a possibility.

As my father always says "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions".

 

[apdst]

I have not really been keeping up with the news on this bill. Would anyone mind telling me what it is about this bill that sucks so much?

The tax hikes on small businesses is what sucks the most.

 

[Gipper]

I can save us millions and millions and millions of dollars! I want to pass a bill that gives me a sniper rifle, one bullet, and Ted Stevens's address.

This sounds familiar to that. Call it the "Bridge to Afghanistan" Bill, even though Afghanistan really is nowhere.