Wednesday
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Republicans move for stimulus package free of spending
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 2:41PM
By Michael Ruhl, University of New Mexico - Talk Radio News Service
It may seem like magic to some these days that one could stimulate the economy without spending a nickel, but that’s exactly what Senator David Vitter (R-LA) and 40 other Congressmen are proposing. A bill to be introduced concurrently in both the Senate and the House would provide revenue and create jobs by drilling for oil domestically. The focus of The No Cost Stimulus Act of 2009 would be primarily energy, because in addition to further tapping domestic gas and oil reserves, it would streamline the process for creating nuclear power plants, which the bill sponsors say would create jobs. According to the sponsors, it would also lessen EPA regulation of CO2 under the Clean Air Act, which the Congressmen claimed would save 500,000 jobs annually and saves over $7 trillion in GDP over the next 20 years.
Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ) said that currently we are outsourcing our energy production, providing jobs to regimes such as Russia, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia, when these very same jobs can be done domestically with our reserves.
The specific regions to be further tapped for their energy potential include the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and ANWR, which the Congressmen estimate alone would create nearly 2 million long term high paying jobs.
It may seem like magic to some these days that one could stimulate the economy without spending a nickel, but that’s exactly what Senator David Vitter (R-LA) and 40 other Congressmen are proposing. A bill to be introduced concurrently in both the Senate and the House would provide revenue and create jobs by drilling for oil domestically. The focus of The No Cost Stimulus Act of 2009 would be primarily energy, because in addition to further tapping domestic gas and oil reserves, it would streamline the process for creating nuclear power plants, which the bill sponsors say would create jobs. According to the sponsors, it would also lessen EPA regulation of CO2 under the Clean Air Act, which the Congressmen claimed would save 500,000 jobs annually and saves over $7 trillion in GDP over the next 20 years.
Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ) said that currently we are outsourcing our energy production, providing jobs to regimes such as Russia, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia, when these very same jobs can be done domestically with our reserves.
The specific regions to be further tapped for their energy potential include the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and ANWR, which the Congressmen estimate alone would create nearly 2 million long term high paying jobs.
GOP: No Third Party For Health Care Decisions
The House Republicans announced their official, common-ground position on the health care reform debate today, rejecting bureaucratic participation in their decision-making process.
House Minority Leader John Boehner said the GOP wants “A system (where) everyone has access to coverage, and a system that people can afford, and a system that focuses on quality.”
In order to achieve this, Republicans believe that there should be no third party involvement, Boehner announced.
“We want to make sure that health care decisions remain between a patient and a physician, not a bureaucrat,” said Boehner.
The debate over health care reform has intensified since the election of President Barack Obama. Health care reform has been one of the primary concerns of his campaign.
Tom Price, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, said that market forces and the competition were a better alternative than the public plan.
“If the government's defining what qualifies as health insurance, that means that the bureaucrats are deciding what individuals are going to receive in their health package,” said Price.
Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz) said that “This idea of having choice for individuals actually helps bring down the costs because they know that in a year they might choice another plan”, referring to the advantages of Medicare’s Plan D.
Rep. Ginni Brown-Waite (R-Fla) said: “The health care insurance as we know it would cease to exist because the government would price its product less.”
Boehner called for the Democrats’ attention on cooperating for the reform, saying “ We continue to be here, we continue to reach out to you we want this to be a bipartisan effort but in order for it to be a bipartisan effort, you need to talk to us, but that isn’t happening”