Source: Reuters

Senate passes $858 billion tax-cut bill
Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:40pm EST

By Kim Dixon and Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal that President Barack Obama struck with Republicans to extend expiring tax cuts for nearly every working American and spur job growth sailed through the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.

Senators voted 81 to 19 to pass the bill, with Republicans and Democrats backing the tax breaks in a rare show of bipartisan support.

The drama now moves to the House of Representatives, where many of Obama's fellow Democrats are still angry with him for cutting the deal with Republicans without them.

Still, most House Republicans are expected to back the bill and Democrats in that chamber are becoming more resigned to passage of the $858 billion package, which is expected to boost economic growth next year but add to the budget deficit.

Read more: http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A44K020101215?ca=rdt

Be sure to call you banker today and ask for your $3,000 loan (per person in your family), or just have them send it directly to themselves and to send the bill with interest to your kids. :rofl:

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SENATE FUNDING BILL INCLUDES $8 BILLION IN NEW NUCLEAR LOANS

VOTE LIKELY THIS WEEK; TELL THE SENATE NO MORE TAXPAYER BAILOUTS FOR NUCLEAR POWER!

December 15, 2010

Dear Friends,

Here is a brief update on last-ditch efforts by nuclear power interests to get their hands on more taxpayer money this year:

As we reported last week, the House passed a Continuing Resolution to keep funding the government that included $7 Billion in new taxpayer loans for nuclear reactor construction. The Senate is following a different approach, called an Omnibus funding bill, that would provide $8 Billion in nuclear loans. The Senate is expected to vote on the Omnibus bill later this week.

Please tell your Senators now to strip this bill of its nuclear funding, or vote against the bill entirely. We have updated our action page and letter to the Senate to take this new development into account.

Everyone in Washington claims to be concerned about the federal deficit, yet too many can't seem to stop their spending on nuclear power. Let's all raise our voices and make clear taxpayers don't want to risk our money on new nuclear reactors.

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to our Holiday fundraising drive. If you haven't yet contributed, I hope you will do so now here, or after you send your letter (and make a call to your Senators too!). I also hope you will consider becoming a monthly donor. A contribution of just $5 or $10/month really adds up for NIRS while being much easier on your wallets too. We rely on your support to do this work and pay our bills; so please donate as generously as you can this holiday season.

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:puke: :banghead: :grr: Pay up and pass it on to your children and grandchildren :puke: :banghead: :grr:

We must invent better ways to do nuclear.

no one wants the nuke waste, human error, impossible to protect from terrorism, expensive to build so the nuke corp's want taxpayers to foot the bills, mining uranium is environmentally destructive and unsafe health-wise, keeping radioactive materials out of the hands of terrorists for dirty bombs also impossible...the list goes on and on and on.

that powers my house off the grid.

A dream? Perhaps. Nevertheless, as some point in the future we will discover a better way.

of who did and who didn't

Whe it's time for campaign dollars, I will have a better understanding of who to send them to.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00276
"On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the House Amdt. to the Senate Amdt. with Amdt. No. 4753 to H.R. 4853)"

I couldn't access it through the "active legislation" section though.

Both senators of California voted yes for that bill, and even other liberal Democrats like John Kerry, Al Franken, Carl Levin, and Dick Durbin voted yes too.

:cry:

there is NOTHING positive about this. This is a travesty.

and please don't make accusations like that. Thanks.

Let's see if she means it.

:headbang:
rocktivity

Man, that is a BIG loophole.

Were I betting man, I'd bet that it leaves the House of Representatives EXACTLY as it is.

9 years and no job have been created.....

but a lot of the other stuff that he got included into the compromise

SENATE FUNDING BILL INCLUDES $8 BILLION IN NEW NUCLEAR LOANS

VOTE LIKELY THIS WEEK; TELL THE SENATE NO MORE TAXPAYER BAILOUTS FOR NUCLEAR POWER!


December 15, 2010

Dear Friends,

Here is a brief update on last-ditch efforts by nuclear power interests to get their hands on more taxpayer money this year:

As we reported last week, the House passed a Continuing Resolution to keep funding the government that included $7 Billion in new taxpayer loans for nuclear reactor construction. The Senate is following a different approach, called an Omnibus funding bill, that would provide $8 Billion in nuclear loans. The Senate is expected to vote on the Omnibus bill later this week.

Please tell your Senators now to strip this bill of its nuclear funding, or vote against the bill entirely. We have updated our action page and letter to the Senate to take this new development into account.

Everyone in Washington claims to be concerned about the federal deficit, yet too many can't seem to stop their spending on nuclear power. Let's all raise our voices and make clear taxpayers don't want to risk our money on new nuclear reactors.

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to our Holiday fundraising drive. If you haven't yet contributed, I hope you will do so now here, or after you send your letter (and make a call to your Senators too!). I also hope you will consider becoming a monthly donor. A contribution of just $5 or $10/month really adds up for NIRS while being much easier on your wallets too. We rely on your support to do this work and pay our bills; so please donate as generously as you can this holiday season.

Thank you for all you do,

Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org
www.nirs.org

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McConnell "giving orders" as it were to not mess with it...Cannot. stand. that. man....

"The Worse Off You Are, Your Taxes Increase"
Journalist David Cay Johnston Slams Obama-GOP Tax Deal

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/14/the_worse_off_you_are_your

... Under the deal, Obama agreed to extend the Bush-era tax cut for the wealthiest Americans and reduce the estate tax in return for a 13-month extension of jobless benefits and a handful of tax credits for low- and moderate-income Americans.

We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill).

..............

Actually I have a few questions but they all revolve around one general point...

Are you going to attack Pelosi like you have been attacking Obama if she allows the tax cuts for the wealthy to be extended?

Will you still be a proud member of "Team Pelosi"?

I wonder how many "Greatest Threads" there will be filled with ultra-hyperbolic attacks on Pelosi if she does not kill any bill that allows the wealthy to get their tax cut extensions?

Or will loyal Pelosi fans, "Team Pelosi", be satisfied if she does allow the tax cut extension for the wealthy to pass as long as she & other Democrats "show boat" in front of the press to show their disgust & maybe "tweak" the bill a little just to show "independence" from the Senate?


As far as I know there were no bad words said about Pelosi when she decided not to hold a vote on ending the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy prior to the election...I wonder if this time will be different?

I have the feeling that when future historians are writing about the events leading up to the 2nd Great Depression, this piece of tax legislation will be featured prominantly.

first move in the dismantling of the FDR social contract. :mad: :puke:

on our ass

Sanders, Sessions, Udall (CO), Udall (NM), Voinovich, Wyden, Feingold, Gillibrand, Hagan, Lautenberg, Leahy, Levin, Merkley, Bingaman, Coburn, DeMint, Dorgan, Ensign

Interesting/bizarre bopartisan mix there.

I knew DiFi would go for it, but am heartbroken that Boxer failed us. :(

you appreciate their vote on this issue. That is very important.

:mad:

That penis rubberstamped much horrible Bewsh garbage in the 00's when he and Mike DeWine and Bob Taft were busy tag-team-gutting this state. He can feign deficit concern elsewhere. And now Portman replaces him and Ohio has a fascist for a governor. Great.

hadn't indicated before.

Congrats to both of them and the sunshine state!

Still, overall, not much of a silver lining...

This is only 18

:shrug:

It's turning out, he talks a good game but turns belly up when it's time to count votes. He's not alone in this, not by a long shot.

Both voted opposite what I expected.

:woohoo:

And I just got a nice thank you letter from Joe Manchin, thanking me for contributing to his campaign. That won't happen again, even if Orly is running against him in the general election.

Kind of proud of them for that.

Plus Bernie Sanders is as well.

The (D)'s and Sanders who voted against it were the ones most adamantly against the gimmies for the rich.

The (R)'s who voted against it just wanted to screw over the unemployed.

Except for Bernie and his few compatriots, the rest of the blah blah blah about the bill was just BS.

Always interesting to note that the Senate manages to find votes when it wants to.
These guys are NOT our friends.

They see the bill passed, get pissed, and unrec.

wasn't she on of the ones that filibustered with Sanders?

She filli-blustered. All talk and no action. Such a disappointment after the big TV show on Friday. How can you ever believe Congress again when they pass a "temporary tax?" Whenever they say "temporary" you can be sure it will be permanent but they are too cowardly to admit they are takeing the easy way out.

thanks for doing the bidding of Republicans and corporations.

Next time, I'm voting for McCain. Ha ha. But let's look on the bright side; we haven't invade Iran, yet.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

It was MAKE-BELIEVE. Oh, save us Mr.Obama. You`re different. They are POLITICIANS. They LIE. They are out for themselves.They vote for pay raises for themselves. They vote to be allowed to accept more money from corporations. Yea....they`re worried about YOU. Keep believing that.

- we can no longer refer to them as Bush's tax cuts. Obama bought them hook, line and sinker.

Voted against Republican Obama Give away 2 the rich Sanders, Sessions, Udall (CO), Udall (NM), Voinovich, Wyden, Feingold, Gillibrand, Hagan, Lautenberg, Leahy, Levin, Merkley, Bingaman, Coburn, DeMint, Dorgan, Ensign

giving tax cuts to the richies