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...Treasury has too much to do. It will delay talking about its new overhaul for banks until Tuesday while it works with Congress to help finalize a new stimulus package which may have a $800 billion price tag. It also has to prepare plans for how it will work with the Fed and FDIC to pull the financial system back together...
...Treasury has too much to do. It will delay talking about its new overhaul for banks until Tuesday while it works with Congress to help finalize a new stimulus package which may have a $800 billion price tag. It also has to prepare plans for how it will work with the Fed and FDIC to pull the financial system back together. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...damage our nation’s public schools. The stimulus package must include enough money to at least partially salvage these jobs and those in other struggling school districts. When state and municipal budgets cannot sustain our public-school system, it is the obligation of the president and Congress to step in and help, even if that requires President Obama and the Democratic leadership to defy Nelson and Collins’ pressure. The alternative is just too dire...
Since he took office Obama has reached out to the GOP, even though the Democrats hold large majorities in both chambers of Congress. The President made an unprecedented trip to the Hill to meet with the Republican conferences, invited select GOP Senators to meet him with him in the Oval Office, at times one-on-one, and called numerous senators to convince them to come on board. In recent days, though, as the bill languished before the Senate his tone turned sharper. "The American people did not choose more of the same," Obama said at a White House meeting Friday...
...long way to fixing the economy. With his own twist to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said: "The world will little note nor long remember how many votes we had to pass the measure. The world and Congress and the nation want to know if this will work. If it passes with 61 votes or 81 votes, it's just a footnote in history...