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(R) Janak Joshi
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(D) Phil Weiser
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) David Seligman
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(R) Sheri Davis
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(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
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(D) Milat Kiros
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(R) Somebody
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
(R) H. Scheppelman
(D) Alex Kelloff
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(D) Trisha Calvarese
(D) Eileen Laubacher
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(D) Jessica Killin
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Shannon Bird
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Failed to move their agenda? This is the list prepared by the House on what they had done up to just July. Sorry for the length, but that is kind of the point.
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ECONOMY:
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – Creates or saves 3.5 million jobs and invests in the future – in clean energy, health care, and infrastructure – to put our nation back on the road to recovery and transform it for long-term growth and stability.
Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights Act – Provides needed protection for consumers from unfair and arbitrary practices employed by credit card companies.
Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act – “Cash for Clunkers” provides incentives for consumers to purchase new, more fuel efficient vehicles. (Included in FY09 Supplemental Appropriations Bill.)
Helping Families Save Their Homes Act – Implements provisions included in the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, including key incentives to encourage lenders to negotiate affordable mortgages for responsible homeowners who are at risk of foreclosure.
Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act – Provides critical resources to help law enforcement pursue and prosecute mortgage and securities fraud. It also creates an outside, bipartisan commission to investigate the causes of the financial crisis and the current recession.
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – Restores the rights of women and other workers to challenge unfair pay – to help close the wage gap where women earn 78 cents for every $1 a man earns in America.
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act
FY 2010 Budget Resolution – Makes a down payment on health care reform, creates a path to energy independence, reforms and invests in education, and also reduces the deficit by nearly two-thirds by 2013. Passed House and Senate)
FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act – Makes critical investments that offer short-term help for our economic problems and long-term solutions for our economic strength.
HEALTH CARE:
State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Reauthorization – Legislation to cover 11 million children, including an additional 4 million uninsured but eligible kids.
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act – Grants the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate the advertising, marketing, and manufacturing of tobacco products.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 – Designates more than 2 million acres as wilderness and expands protections for existing national parks, rivers and water resources.
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY:
Weapons Acquisition System Reform Through Enhancing Technical Knowledge and Oversight Act – Reforms how we buy weapons systems, eliminating waste in these programs.
NATIONAL SECURITY:
Fiscal Year 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Bill – Provides support for our troops in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Sent to the President)
OTHER TOP ISSUES:
Need-Based Educational Aid Act – Makes technical corrections to the Higher Education Act of 1965, making permanent the favorable treatment of need-based educational aid under the antitrust laws.
Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act – Creates new service opportunities for more Americans to volunteer and give back to their communities to help them through the current economic crisis.
In addition to the significant bills signed into law, the House by July had also passed important legislation that was awaiting Senate action. Some of these have already passed since:
BUDGET AND ECONOMY:
Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act – Cracks down on the dangerous practices that created a housing bubble and led to the recent wave of foreclosures.
TARP Reform and Accountability Act – Ensures that TARP funds are spent effectively to help stabilize our economy.
Pay for Performance Act – Includes prohibiting payment of unreasonable or excessive compensation and non-performance based bonuses at companies receiving TARP funds.
HEALTH CARE:
Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Act
National Pain Care Policy Act
Wakefield Act (Emergency Medical Services for Children)
Vision Care for Kids Act
Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom’s Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act
Dextromethorphan Distribution Act (“Cough Syrup” Bill)
Health Insurance Restrictions and Limitations Clarification Act
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT:
American Clean Energy and Security Act
Water Quality Investment Act
Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement (FLAME) Act
NATIONAL SECURITY, FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND VETERANS:
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Improvements Act
Foreign Relations Authorization Act
Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement Act
Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act
Reducing Over-Classification Act
Fair, Accurate, Secure, and Timely (FAST) Redress Act
National Bombing Prevention Act
Veterans Cost of Living Increase
Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization Act
Veterans Emergency Care Reimbursement
FY 2010 APPROPRIATIONS
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act
OTHER TOP ISSUES:
Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act
21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act
Federal Retirement Reform Act of 2009
Campus Safety Act
Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act
Free Flow of Information Act
He had handled the first Iraq war perfectly (boy do we know that now). He handled the end of the Soviet Union perfectly. He passed a critically needed tax increase that lined up the economic boom of the Clinton years. All very important and very difficult items.
But a lot of people were out of work. And those that had jobs were both fearful about their own jobs and knew people that were either unemployed or underemployed. So what happened?
We voted to replace him with an unknown from Arkansas who didn’t tell us what he was going to do – but did make it clear that he felt our pain and would focus on fixing the economy.
You can talk about the above items. And they are important. But they aren’t going to count for much. The primary measure will be jobs.
And secondary will be health-care, financial regulation, & carbon emissions. Both because they are important to people – and because we Dems have promised great things on each.
The credit card industry got what they wanted – all the time in the world to raise rates, set rules and regulations against consumers and run amok without regulation for X months. The X months given by our legislators was a to not help consumers or those with credit card debt, it was to allow the credit card industry to get it’s way and profits before allowing themselves to be “regulated”
I’m impacted by this.
Let’s ask this question again in 2012.
Especially in the case of Bill Ritter, Micheal Bennet, & Betsy Markey.
Funny Dan Froomkin, who is Washington Bureau Chief for the Huffington Post, would say there is a disconnect between DC and the rest of the country… any else see the irony in that?
David you seem to forget the big banks got their cash from Bush. If you can’t keep that straight as a Democrat… there’s a bigger issue.
As for unemployment, it’s going to gradually reduce over the next 3-4 years. Yes, shit’s tough, but Bush’s $2,000,000,000,000 tax cuts for the rich and two foreign wars ran our deficit sky high making it all the more difficult to recovery.
The voters are pissed off and getting more so. Excuses won’t fly. Yes we’re left holding the bag for the Bush mistakes – that’s politics.
But if unemployment is still 8% or higher in a year a lot of Democratic officeholders are going to be joining the ranks of the unemployed.
Especially if we keep telling people that we’ve just got to take our time as it slowly corrects itself.
Keep blaming Bush. It’s bound to work forever!
As the worst president of all time, GWB has provided a veritable Encyclopaedia Incompetus/Malfeasius for everyone to learn what not to do from! His presidency will be discussed for at least 100 years on that matter.
Glad to see you finally came to your senses, LB [snark for anyone that didn’t get it]
Please pipe down. Your team is doing a great job. Please leave them alone. Stop being so critical.
I am sure the voters will see all the “good intentions” of Democratic politicians, and never consider the actual results of the Democrat’s rule.
After all, that has worked before.
Maybe this is what that “HOPE” part of the campaign really means. You now all have to HOPE that no one points out that the emperor has no clothes.
GOOD LUCK with that.
NEWSMAN
Laughing Boy & NEWSMAN say we have nothing to worry about. And they would never steer us wrong 🙂
Unfortunately, David, I agree with you. Dems are losing the PR/perception battle, due to a couple of issues: weak leadership in the Senate and House, and even worse, many of “our” reps appear to be listening to the lobbyists and corporate donors more than their constituents.
Currently, 73% of doctors favor some form of Public Option along with 65% of Americans, so why are some of our Democratic representatives acting like Republicans and trying to turn the health care bill into a three-legged camel?
A majority (but unfortunately, not a supermajority) of Democrats in Congress want a deficit-neutral solution that constrains the out of control rise in health care costs while offering affordable coverage to all Americans, and they are the ones under relentless attack.
And yet it is the Republicans getting a free ride in the press while advocating that we shouldn’t expand coverage to all or most of Americans, 45,000 of whom die each year due to lack of coverage. With unemployment at almost 10%, the problem is rapidly getting worse for millions of Americans.
The Republican’s rationale?
If expanding coverage while controlling costs would risk a single dime of the insurance companies’ profits, or it would take finding appropriate sources of revenue to pay for saving American lives, then the status quo is the only “public option” they (and some Dems) will support.
C’mon folks — it takes real talent to lose that argument!