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USA Today
| over 1 year ago
Jon Tester of Montana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska -- also opposed Obama on a procedural vote this week, and other Democrats have also raised questions about the $447 billion American Jobs Act. In an op-ed, Tester wrote he voted against the jobs bill...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
None of this is allaying anger over an ambush Reid pulled off last week, using a simple majority vote to nix precedent and deny Republicans the chance to offer amendments. Republican senators across the ideological spectrum united in resisting the...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
Obama, appearing with the South Korean president at a press conference before Thursday night's state dinner, said that after he challenged reporters to discover what the GOP's plan for short-term job creation, he has not heard of one yet. "I haven't...
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Canadian Free Press
| over 1 year ago
Obama's $447 billion tax and spend orgy A Bipartisan Smiting, Courtesy of U.S. Senate Although President Obama and his dedicated Marxist partners in the Democrat Party will never admit as much, the shellacking administered to Obama's $447 billion tax...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
Congressional Democrats may try again to hike taxes on wealthy Americans in order to pay for their jobs proposals, though the Senate two days ago turned away the $447 billion package containing such a tax. With the bill failing to clear a necessary...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
Schumer and Obama's senior advisers argued over tax strategy at several meetings last year before the president went his own way, striking a deal with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to extend virtually all of the Bush-era tax rates...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama said House and Senate passage Wednesday of three free-trade agreements was "a major win for American workers and businesses." With some Democrats joining most Republicans, both chambers passed and sent to the White House...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
But he could also have been talking about those moderate Democrats who face reelection fights next year, and who will be deciding in the coming months how closely to ally themselves to a president who is sinking in the polls. After some public...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| over 1 year ago
Search Type Choose a search type from the items below All News Yahoo! Reuters) Fresh from a defeat at the hands of Republicans, President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats said Wednesday they will move their jobs bill in pieces to convince voters...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
Obama's jobs bill the American Jobs Act, which he has campaigned to pass in a series of speeches over the past month failed in a Senate vote Tuesday night, falling short of the 60 votes it needed to move to debate. Obama and Senate Majority Leader...
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Politico
| over 1 year ago
Mitch McConnell (left) and Harry Reid have a shared interest in the spending endeavor. AP Photos Close A nearly $182 billion package of long-delayed spending bills will be brought to the Senate floor Thursday in a first test of both parties'...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
The fate of the jobs bill which lost by winning, in a vote that didn't really matter in the first place made perfect sense in the Senate. It might be the Washington institution most warped by the current culture of gridlock, transformed from a balky...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
The chamber's majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), last week called for a joint caucus to give senators a chance to voice frustrations with the lack of cooperation in the chamber. Reid sparked a firestorm when he and members of the Democratic...
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The Globe & Mail
| over 1 year ago
The following post is part of a new series that brings a fresh perspective to global news from our team of foreign correspondents Barack Obama did not mince words Wednesday in slamming Republicans in the Senate for blocking his $447-billion jobs bill...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
Partisan bickering over President Barack Obama's failed $447 billion jobs plan intensified Wednesday, with Republicans accusing Democrats of political gamesmanship and Democrats charging Republicans with costly obstructionism. The measure failed to...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
Schumer, who as chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee has responsibility for the Senate Democrats' messaging strategy, unveiled his 2012 campaign plans at a Wednesday breakfast hosted by Third Way, a Democratic think tank. Schumer...
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Politico
| over 1 year ago
Dems want to show 'the tea party has a stranglehold on the Republican Party,' Schumer said. AP Photo Close Senate Democrats will brand Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's jobs plan as tea party economics, a top Democrat said Wednesday...
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Truthdig
| over 1 year ago
Oct 12, 2011 Is Sen. Charles Schumer still a member of the reality-based community? The top Democrat confidently predicted on Wednesday that his party will retain command of the Senate majority both before and after the 2012 election, despite having...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
Those are the bumper sticker slogans congressional Democrats plan to slap on Republican opponents to President Obama 's jobs plan this fall. Democrats are now dismantling the bill into individual proposals that are popular in the polls after a GOP -...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
I don't know what the numbers are we're not whipping these bills, per se but I do expect them to pass with bipartisan support, said Hoyer, who supports all three bills. The House on Tuesday approved the rule governing the three proposals, while the...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
Top Democrats like Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) had started a push to meld proposals to give corporations a tax break on their offshore profits with infrastructure initiatives even before the Senate voted down a procedural motion on the president's...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
President Obama and Congress are going through another act of the political theater they have been staging since Republicans regained control of the House last year. The Senate is to take a procedural vote on Obama's $450 billion jobs bill Tuesday...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
Blogs The legislation, announced with fanfare by the president at a joint session of Congress last month, fell short of the 60 needed to overcome procedural hurdles in the Senate. The vote in favor of advancing the bill on Tuesday was 50 to 49. Two...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama 's $447 billion jobs bill was blocked by the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, failing to receive the 60 votes needed to proceed to debate. Obama responded to the defeat by saying he will push to get pieces of his bill enacted. "...
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MarketWatch
| over 1 year ago
Barack Obama's economic agenda suffered a setback in the Senate on Tuesday, as Republicans blocked the president's $447 billion jobs bill from advancing, with Democrats were already preparing an alternate strategy to push it through Congress. /conga/...
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San Jose Mercury News
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama's jobs bill was blocked in the Senate on Tuesday in its first major legislative test, forcing the White House and congressional Democrats to develop plans to revive elements of what the administration had portrayed as the...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
The president said in a statement that his administration will work with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to get votes on the individual components of the bill "as soon as possible." "Tonight's vote is by no means the end of this fight,"...
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The Hill
| over 1 year ago
The jobs plan, which the president has spent much of the last month touting on a cross-country tour, fell well short of the 60 votes it needed to proceed...Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Jon Tester (Mont.), but a number of other centrists in the party...
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Epoch Times
| over 1 year ago
Oct 11, 2011 Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) walks off the Senate floor after voting against President Barak Obama's America Jobs Act October 11, in Washington. The bill failed to pass the Senate. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Senate failed to pass...
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The Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
United against Barack Obama, Senate Republicans voted Tuesday night to kill the jobs package the president had spent weeks campaigning for across the country, a stinging loss at the hands of lawmakers opposed to stimulus-style spending and a tax...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
Senate defeated President Barack Obama's job-creation package Tuesday in a sign that Washington is likely too paralyzed to take major steps to spur hiring before the 2012 elections. The $447 billion package of tax cuts and new spending failed by a...
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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
The Democrat-led Senate was moving Tuesday evening to effectively kill President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan later that night, as the White House and Democratic lawmakers talked of breaking the president's plan into pieces to try to push it...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
The Senate was still voting late Tuesday, but Democrats did not have enough votes to overcome a filibuster led by Republicans . Most Democrats supported the bill while all Republicans were voting to block it...Republicans opposed spending more money...
