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House Democrats are touting investment in science as a solution to America's economic crisis. "If you want to know our agenda for this new Congress, remember four words: science, science, science and science," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Monday...
...Pelosi spoke after a meeting at Princeton University, where she met with five other House Democrats and prominent American researchers to discuss the future of U.S. innovation. "We stand by [science] as the most important investment we can make in the health, the education, the energy independence, the job creation and the defense of America," the Speaker said. See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...failed compromise bill crafted by Senate Democrats and the White House would have taken $14 billion from a green modernization fund passed by Congress earlier this year - a move at first ardently opposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "We think the legislation we negotiated provided an opportunity to use funds already appropriated for automakers and presented the best chance to avoid a disorderly bankruptcy while ensuring taxpayer funds only go to firms whose stakeholders were prepared to make difficult decisions to become viable," said Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, responding to the vote. "We will evaluate our options...
...Senate Republicans made clear that they weren't on board with President Bush - and that they were none too happy he was putting them in this uncomfortable position. To complicate matters, House Dems moved more to the left in their environmental demands for the plan, a luxury Speaker Nancy Pelosi could afford since her large majority allows her to pass legislation over Republican objections. Senate majority leader Harry Reid's razor-thin majority does not, and now Washington seems once again on the verge of a bailout blowup that could shake the markets and the economy...
...Many Democrats are frustrated, feeling as though they have already given in on many major points to the GOP. Pelosi, for her part, was dead set against using the green fund for bridge loans, with her aides arguing that it forced the companies to choose between their present and their future. Having conceded that point, the Speaker was rankled that the Senate version requires the Big Three to meet only federal fuel-efficiency standards and not stricter regulations like those in her native California. Her bill requires the Big Three to meet all "applicable" standards, which would include state ones...