Senate sitting on 22 bipartisan bills to help the economy

[dogtowner]

now who exactly is doing nothing to help Americans ?

c'mon Harry, you cant lead, you suck at following so just get out the damn way...

GOP Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Bill: A Common Ground Proposal to Permanently Boost American Energy, Remove Barriers to Job Growth
Posted by Katie Boyd on November 04, 2011 House Republicans will continue moving the American Energy Initiative forward in the coming weeks with a new jobs bill linking expanded energy production with initiatives to improve infrastructure and reform the way infrastructure money is spent, House Speaker John Boehner announced yesterday. “Instead of just spending the money on short-term fixes,” Speaker Boehner explained that the bill will permanently remove barriers to private-sector growth and ensure that infrastructure spending is dedicated to real projects that will help create jobs. Here are a few key points about the energy and infrastructure jobs proposal:

• The “Opposite of Stimulus.” “Dubbing it the ‘opposite of stimulus,’ Boehner said the new energy production plan would provide ‘a new devoted revenue stream’ that could pay for the kind of infrastructure spending that President Obama is demanding as part of his jobs package.” (The Hill, 11/3/11)

• “A Permanent Expansion of American-Made Energy Production.” “The speaker opened the discussion by touting legislation coming to the floor soon to enact energy reform and link new revenues to pay for new infrastructure projects. ‘I said in September that if we really wanted to do an infrastructure bill that will support long-term job growth we should do one that’s going to be a permanent expansion of American-made energy production.’ Boehner said. ‘It would remove barriers to American energy production and it would use the revenue from that new production to help pay for initiatives to repair and improve infrastructure around the country.’” (ABC News, 11/4/11)

• “Would End…‘Frivolous Projects.’” “The legislation…would also not include earmarks or other specific line-item spending requirements and would end what Boehner termed ‘frivolous projects’ like funding for baseball parks and garages.” (Roll Call, 11/4/11)

• “An Attempt to Find Common Ground” with President Obama. “Boehner proposes expanding domestic energy production, including oil drilling, and putting the proceeds toward highway infrastructure needs. ‘This represents a better way,’ Boehner told reporters. … It is also an attempt to find common ground with Obama, who has indicated some support for increased domestic energy production.” (Los Angeles Times, 11/4/11)

The House has passed several American Energy Initiative bills that would expand energy production and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. They are now lying idle amongst the 22 bipartisan, House-passed jobs bills Senate Democrats have refused to bring to a vote. Speaker Boehner said yesterday that “he hoped the [new energy and infrastructure] package would ‘prompt the president to get more engaged in the legislative process’ and inspire the Senate ‘to act on the growing slate of jobs bills that are piling up over there.’” With the unemployment rate above eight percent for 33 consecutive months, Senate Democrats are “out of excuses” for inaction.
Learn more about the American Energy Initiative here, and follow the progress of all of the bipartisan, House-passed jobs plan bills on the Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators website: http://jobs.GOP.gov.

 

[Little-Acorn]

When I hear about "Congressional bills to help the economy", that sends up an immediate red flag.

Congress generally can't help the economy, and any bills that claim to do so are usually bogus. Keep in mind that all ANY government can do, is restrict and punish its people, and take resources from them. No government has any power to do anything else.

It can happen, though, that government sometimes does so much, that it's actively hurting the people's economy. We have that situation here today. In such a case, sometimes government actions can actually help the situation... IF THEY SERVE TO GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY.

And lo and behold, some fo the bills described here, actually seem to do that, noteably the ones that remove government restrictions and bans on drilling for oil.

Naturally the leftist majority in the Senate, whose raison d'etre is more and more government control, oppose such things. This is the main reason these people must be voted out and replacve with people who believe that the people, not the government, are the economy; and government exists only to protect their rights, not to "do things for them".

 

[Gipper]

When I hear about "Congressional bills to help the economy", that sends up an immediate red flag.

Congress generally can't help the economy, and any bills that claim to do so are usually bogus. Keep in mind that all ANY government can do, is restrict and punish its people, and take resources from them. No government has any power to do anything else.

It can happen, though, that government sometimes does so much, that it's actively hurting the people's economy. We have that situation here today. In such a case, sometimes government actions can actually help the situation... IF THEY SERVE TO GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY.

And lo and behold, some fo the bills described here, actually seem to do that, noteably the ones that remove government restrictions and bans on drilling for oil.

Naturally the leftist majority in the Senate, whose raison d'etre is more and more government control, oppose such things. This is the main reason these people must be voted out and replacve with people who believe that the people, not the government, are the economy; and government exists only to protect their rights, not to "do things for them".

Yep and the MSM fails to report this story.

Ask any lib and they will tell you the Rs are doing nothing to help the economy so as to hurt BO. Once again, proof of how uninformed libs are.

 

[dogtowner]

When I hear about "Congressional bills to help the economy", that sends up an immediate red flag.

Congress generally can't help the economy, and any bills that claim to do so are usually bogus. Keep in mind that all ANY government can do, is restrict and punish its people, and take resources from them. No government has any power to do anything else.

It can happen, though, that government sometimes does so much, that it's actively hurting the people's economy. We have that situation here today. In such a case, sometimes government actions can actually help the situation... IF THEY SERVE TO GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY.

And lo and behold, some fo the bills described here, actually seem to do that, noteably the ones that remove government restrictions and bans on drilling for oil.

Naturally the leftist majority in the Senate, whose raison d'etre is more and more government control, oppose such things. This is the main reason these people must be voted out and replacve with people who believe that the people, not the government, are the economy; and government exists only to protect their rights, not to "do things for them".

it's mainly taking down barriers so yes, that does help unlike more failed Porkulus-style nonsense.