Saturday
Feb072009
Sen. Rockefeller is Generally Satisfied with the Compromises on the Stimulus Bill
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Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, for Talk Radio News Service.
Immediately following today’s deliberations on the Senate floor, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) says Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) is always present, whether he is on the floor or not.
Rockefeller points out that the Health Information Technology provision was not eliminated, but cut from seven billion dollars to five billion dollars.
Asked about the “Buy American” provision, he discusses the great harm to West Virginia following NAFTA.
He acknowledges to another reporter that the calls to his office are predominantly against the stimulus bill. He believes that more opportunity to discuss the merits of the bill with his constituents, or visible results, would reverse that trend.
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Immediately following today’s deliberations on the Senate floor, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) says Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) is always present, whether he is on the floor or not.
Rockefeller points out that the Health Information Technology provision was not eliminated, but cut from seven billion dollars to five billion dollars.
Asked about the “Buy American” provision, he discusses the great harm to West Virginia following NAFTA.
He acknowledges to another reporter that the calls to his office are predominantly against the stimulus bill. He believes that more opportunity to discuss the merits of the bill with his constituents, or visible results, would reverse that trend.
Listen
Reader Comments (2)
No to “stimulus” bill. Here’s why:
Since Obama’s earnest drive to convince the nation to weaken its economic strength through redistribution as well as weaken its national defense, has confirmed the very threats to our Republic’s survival that the Constitution was designed to avert, it no longer is sustainable for the United States Supreme Court and Military Joint Chiefs to refrain from exercising WHAT IS THEIR ABSOLUTE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO DEFEND THE NATION FROM UNLAWFUL USURPATION. The questions of Obama’s Kenyan birth and his father’s Kenyan/British citizenship (admitted on his own website) have been conflated by his sustained unwillingnes to supply his long form birth certificate now under seal, and compounded by his internet posting of a discredited ‘after-the-fact’ short form ‘certificate’. In the absence of these issues being acknowledged and addressed, IT IS MANIFEST THAT OBAMA REMAINS INELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER ARTICLE 2 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. Being a 14th Amendment ‘citizen’ is not sufficient. A ‘President’ MUST BE an Article 2 ‘natural born citizen’ AS DEFINED BY THE FRAMERS’ INTENT.
Dear Herb,
I definitely support the president's stimulus plan. Right before Bush left office a stimulus plan was pushed thur without any question and I feel it was so he and his cronies could get a windfall which is what they got all thru his years in the White House. The $300 that I was suppose to get last year went straight to the Treasury because I still owed money to the IRS. Now Herb, I have been on sick leave now for two years and am trying to get my SSD. I will be 62 in Dec. 09. My income is practically nil.
If the country can support a war that the America people have to pay for, why can't the country offer support to the American people? I am obviously very upset by the whole thing that is going on regarding the lack of support President Obama is getting and think all of you up there in Congress and the House ought to get on board to support the American people..
I have been calling your office every week and will continue to call you since I have always voted for you and intend to become more proactive.
Thanks so much for all the good work you have been doing and support your further good work.
Regina Z. Flowers