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- The new GI Bill and Democratic priorities like extending unemployment benefits are simply the big-ticket add-ons, both of which have drawn veto threats. There’s also $50 million to track down child predators, $400 million to help rural schools and $350 million fight western wildfires, just for starters.
- The Senate war funding bill combines $194.1 billion in spending over 2008-2009 for war funding, foreign aid, military base construction, heating subsidies and a variety of smaller items. Then there’s $14.5 billion to give 13 weeks of unemployment checks to people whose benefits have run out and $51.6 billion over 10 years to improve GI Bill benefits.
- The immigrant farm labor provision added to the measure at a hearing last week by Sens Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, would allow almost 1.4 million immigrant farm workers to stay in the United States for up to five years to ease a shortage of farm workers that has left some crops rotting in the fields.Sens. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Judd Gregg, R-N.H., followed that up with a provision to extend an expired program to allow seasonal workers to return to the country using H-2B visas.
- adopt $1 billion worth of additional energy subsidies for the poor.
- Hutchison won approval of $100 million in grants to local law enforcement to fight drug trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border.
We have 20 million illegals running around this country and there is a shortage of farm workers therefore crops are rotting? Let me guess..farming is now a job the illegals won’t do?
13 more weeks of unemployment? Are there new restrictions or should we just suck it up?
May 20, 2008 - 10:19 PM on May 20th, 2008
And this surprises you? This has been done by both sides of the house since the Rev War.
The fact that this current administration keeps wanting to cut taxes while there is a war going on is stupidness beyond explaintion.
David
May 20, 2008 - 10:21 PM on May 20th, 2008
Lower taxes = more economic activity = greater revenue to the Gov’t
Higher taxes = less economic activity = less revenue to the Gov’t
Been proven over and over. Nothing stupid about lowering taxes. In fact, much of the rest of the world has figured it out.
May 21, 2008 - 09:40 AM on May 21st, 2008
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