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...such a solution. Horrified that welfare recipients should have cell phones and cigarettes on the state’s dime, he is considering a law to pay willing women $1000 to undergo Fallopian tube ligation and effectively promote state-sponsored sterilization of poor women. The law would also include tax incentives for wealthier, more educated couples to have more children. To him, the root of the welfare crisis lies in poor people reproducing faster than those who are presumably more qualified to have children. Poverty is a burden on the state, and diminishing that burden is apparently as simple...
...trying to woo wavering Republicans with a revised version of the bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Senate counterparts risked souring the moderate Democrats she can't afford to lose. The bill the Senate passed included a $100 billion extension of unrelated tax benefits - provisions like tax breaks for business R&D and alternative energy and money to prevent more Americans from being hit by the Alternative Minimum Tax - that the Blue Dogs have fought for years. This increasingly powerful bunch of Democrats isn't opposed to tax cuts, but they are against passing them without offsetting the costs...
...Many of their Republican counterparts are equally ambivalent, even with the tax sweeteners and an increase in the maximum amount of bank deposits insured by the FDIC, from $100,000 to $250,000. But several influential conservative Republicans who oppposed the first bill, like John Shaddeg of Arizona and Zach Wamp of Tennessee, have signaled that they will reluctantly support the new Senate version. Still, the vote promises to be a nail-biter, and by Thursday evening, the White House and Congressional leaders were still not convinced that they had secured the additional 12 votes to guarantee passage. With...
...which could lead to some major battles next year when the Blue Dogs try to force the next President, whoever he is, to pay for whatever new programs or tax cuts he is trying to pass. "Nothing will pass without a majority of Blue Dogs voting for it, that's true on this vote," Stenholm says. And if they do help pass this bill, the Blue Dogs will be sure to remind Nancy Pelosi of it next year...
That, however, wasn't sufficient on its own to change enough minds. Ever mindful of what makes Congress run, the Senate, taking the lead, passed the second bill 74 to 25, with a few crucial add-ons to sweeten the pot for Republicans: extensions of popular tax benefits for business R&D and alternative energy, relief for the growing pool of people subject to the alternative minimum tax, disaster assistance for states affected by Midwestern floods and Hurricane Ike, and a provision raising the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's ceiling of guaranteed deposits to $250,000. And the initial...