Topic: John McCain
This time its McCain, ranting against money sought by UNLV Railing this week against pork barrel corruption in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, Arizona Republican John McCain called the more than 8,500 earmarks in it an outrageous insult to the American ...
Republicans and Democrats play the blame game for nation's economic woesSen. " The war between Republicans and Democrats to frame the blame for the economy erupted in earnest this week.Republicans pushed back against President Barack Obama's claim echoed relentlessly by his Cabinet ...
Urging strict future restraint even as current spending soars, President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to dramatically slash the skyrocketing annual budget deficit as he started to dole out the record $787 billion economic stimulus package he signed last week. It was ...
Republicans wont get anywhere if they dont seek common ground with Democrats It look less than one month into Democrat Barack Obamas presidency for the defeated Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and fellow members of his political party in ...
The goofy, shrill Republican hypocrisy and dishonest silliness on the stimulus bill is mind-boggling. The Republican agenda, led by Bush and Cheney, landed the U.S. in a severe recession through trillion-dollar debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, hundreds of billions in tax cuts ...
Obama plans to head west to sign stimulus bill, detail foreclosure plan, seek public supportKeeping the economy front and center, President Barack Obama heads west this week to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill and tackle the home mortgage foreclosure crisis. The ...
Only nine House members got their name on the stimulus bill, but two were Nydia Velazquez and Ed Towns. [Brooklyn Paper]Chuck Schumer saved a bakery--but can he save a hospital? [QC]Although the city has admitted the Willets Point redevelopment plan won't happen ...
Senate Democrats kill McCain's alternative economic stimulus planThe Senate has killed an alternative economic stimulus plan by Sen. John McCain that would have cut income and payroll taxes but spent far less than President Obama's plan.The party-line 57-40 vote against McCain's $421 ...
The US Senate agreed late Wednesday to dilute a " Buy American" clause from its stimulus plan that angered US allies, but rejected a separate effort to strip it from the bill.Lawmakers approved by voice vote to soften the clause's language, requiring ...
US senators headed towards a vote Thursday on a stimulus plan worth more than 900 billion dollars to revive the plunging economy after diluting a " "President Barack Obama pressed for the massive stimulus plan's swift passage over Republican objections, as Senate ...