Posted on 02/03/2009 4:13:15 PM PST by cp124
U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe will meet with President Obama at the White House on Wednesday as senators struggle to fashion a bipartisan economic stimulus package.
Collins said she shares Obama's desire to pass a measure that will stimulate the economy, but she has serious concerns about the $819 billion package that passed the House last week.
She said she was been working with colleagues, particularly U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., on a smaller, compromise bill that would win broad support.
"In addition to infrastructure investments, I believe the stimulus should include funding to help states avoid cuts in essential health care programs, tax relief for low- and middle-income families, tax incentives to help small businesses, and investments in energy conservation to help create jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil," Collins said in a prepared statement.
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Obama focusing on the weak links in Republican opposition.
Obama is picking off the strays. That’s how life works.
“Boycott Maine products and vacations?”
Leon Leonwood Bean would come back to life and kick your ass for such a stupid suggestion
Just FReeped both with :This PORK bill will plunge us into a Depression deeper than FDR did in 1933-1937
I recommend that you read the Forgotten Man by Amity Shales
A real Stimulus bill would be Tax cuts and Tax rate cuts on Capital
This Bill and TARP will BANKRUPT this once proud country
and lead us into another depression as were the
dark days of FDR's 8 year depression.Keynesian Theory has been throughly debunked.
Evermore to be known as Monica Snowe and Monica Collins, Wear your knee pads girls that oval office rug is hell on the knees.
You vote with me or I close Bath Irom Works!
“Wonder what Zero will be promising these two RINOS?”
A secret Obama cult ring?
The only jobs this stimulus will save are government jobs.
I couldn’t hope to win a gov’t contract. I’m a white male, and I don’t have enough baksheesh to buy a no-bid.
Anyone know where they administer the civil service test?
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