Jobs Bill Passes House: Kirk, Castle, Blunt, Boozman Vote Against

Thu Mar 04 2010 18:30:00 GMT-0500 (EST) | by Arjun Jaikumar

The HIRE Act passed the House today, no thanks to Reps. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Michael Castle of Delaware, and John Boozman of Arkansas.

Each of these would-be Senators voted against the job creation package.

The bipartisan bill, has four key provisions including a payroll tax holiday for businesses to encourage hiring, additional funds to help small businesses expand, an extension of the Highway Trust Fund to allow more infrastructure investments, and an expansion of the Build America Bonds program to allow states finance infrastructure projects.

Each of these four Republicans stands in opposition to the Senators they would replace on job creation.

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Scott Brown's amendment Thu Mar 04 2010 18:56:09 GMT-0500 (EST) | by jalapenolady45

I hope Scotts amendment was not included in the bill. Tax cuts put us in this mess. We need less spending. If we have this sluch fund as he stated then it need to be put into this jobs bill.

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jobs Thu Mar 04 2010 19:07:00 GMT-0500 (EST) | by mjohnsonmuna

its okay, as long as the jobs go to Americans and not foreign contractors and immigrant workers who lie and say Americans don't want these jobs...because they do want these jobs and want to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Why Didn't The "Stimulus" Work? Thu Mar 04 2010 21:18:26 GMT-0500 (EST) | by Watcher

n/t

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Stimulus Fri Mar 05 2010 10:08:32 GMT-0500 (EST) | by

The Stimulus jury is still out it has done some good in that it allowed the unemployed extended benefits in these awful times, many have forgotten that the Obama Administration, pull the nation's economy from falling off cliff there would have been breadlines in the streets and far more anguish in our land. It has created some jobs and more will come. Trust this president and quit the rederick support the him, affecting change is difficult

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Jobs Bill Fri Mar 05 2010 08:50:05 GMT-0500 (EST) | by JudyC11

I was under the assumption that unemployment insurance was paid for by a tax employers pay, and I thought it was a payroll deduction. Where has all that money gone? Funding should not even be part of the equation if this is in fact true.

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