Jobs Bill Passes Senate

Jay,
Do you know who the senators are that voted to sustain the filibuster AND for the jobs bill? Have they attempted to explain their votes?

TPM has the details:
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On Monday, the Senate voted for cloture on the Democratic jobs bill, 62-30. Today, they passed the bill itself in a vote of 70-28.
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That means eight senators who voted against cloture (or were absent, which in a cloture vote is the same as a no vote) vote for the bill itself. All of them are Republicans.
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The switchers who voted no on cloture but yes today:
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Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
George LeMieux (R-FL)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
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And those who were absent Monday but voted yes today:
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Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Richard Burr (R-NC)

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http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/who-switched-on-the-jobs-bill.php?ref=fpa

It’s good to see that the Senate is thinking about something that matters. But for the 9.7% of people who are going to be unemployed for a while, don’t forget that there’s use that free time to keep living living like Amercians!

Do It At Home, America!

(satire)

Yay, a victory for Reid. But the bill isn’t large or sweeping enough to do much good for actual people who are in trouble so what’s the point?

I spoke with Murkowski yesterday who told me her vote against cloture was a protest not of the underlying bill but of Reid’s partisan tactics. Rs were upset that they couldn’t offer amendments and that Reid yanks the Baucus/Grassley deal.
JNS

Thanks, Jay. This involves tea leaves, of course, but do you see Reid trying the bite-size pieces approach with finance reform too? I think that issue can generate huge public support too – even Tea Partiers are calling for reigning in Wall Street too.
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…and kudos for your term limits story too. will you post about it here with more thoughts? Although beware of rusty; he was kicking Karen really hard earlier, alas. Were you on CNN yesterday? I missed that; hopefully there are clips (looking for them now). Was KT also? I asked her earlier if both of you would be on but no reply and I missed the broadcasts. But thanks for your thoughts here, Jay.

“Given last year’s experience, it seems likely that Reid will again move to limit amendments. But doing so is a controversial move that angers Republicans, who have used it as Exhibit A of how Democrats in Congress aren’t extending the bipartisan olive branch pushed by President Barack Obama. “Standard Harry Reid,” says Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican. “No bipartisanship. Just ram it through. Just pick off a few Republicans. That’s been their strategy from the beginning.” ”
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What McCain means is that it elliminates the Pork that allows the bill to pick off a whole bunch of Republicans instead of a few. So he is all for holding America hostage for the prok he rants against.

This is a big deal. It identifies the Republicans willing to work with the White House and Dems and those hat will oppose anything and everything that the president wants, even if it is essentially a GOP tax cut bill.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Shouldn’t the headline read: “Democrats pass tax cuts over strenuous Republican objections”?

What the majority of those who voted “no” on the bill claimed, was due to the fact that our dear Senate Leader, Harry Reid cut the bill from over 100 billion to less than 15 billion with no discussion or debate. While at the same time Harry accused men in particular of domestic abuse when they go unemployed. It truly does not make any sense at all.
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Perhaps that is the reason why some of the Republicans voted “no” for this bill. Seems ironic that Democrats are so willing to pass and fund health care reform, spending over a TRILLION dollars, but when it comes down to really helping Americans in need, the 9.7% Plus who do not have a job, which estimates are near 20% of all Americans in reality, they do not want to spend the money.
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Why do Democrats not want to help people who are truly in need, but will attempt to pass legislation like Health Care Reform which does nothing to help hardly anyone?
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This just shows how out of touch Congress is right now under the Leadership of Democrats. No wonder that the recent Rassmussen poll on favorability has Congress at a 10% approval rating. The lowest level in history.
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http://tinyurl.com/RR1160
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RasmussenPoll 10% give Congress good or excellent ratings… 71% rate Congressional performance as poor… highest ever…
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Yea, great news and even greater reporting from our TIME.com journalists.

…well rustydear, are you going to kick Jay around like you did Karen earlier?

Two weeks ago, when Reid yanked a bipartisan jobs bill that was hammered out by Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Chuck Grassley, it looked like he was on course to do the same thing he did with health care reform: pull a bipartisan deal and replace it with a partisan bill.

Is JNS smoking crack again? When did this mythical pulling, by Reid, of a bipartisan deal on health care reform occur?

My understanding is that Reid plans to do a series of Jobs Bill to highlight the oppositions behavior. I suspect it will also help his reelection campaign as well.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1964397,00.html

@tjoyce: so people who need help now are hostage to an election strategy (and, of course, Republican opposition). It’s not Reid’s fault really but it’s a sorry state of affairs.

Actually decon “dear”, Jay mostly reports facts as was evident by her reporting from Haiti recently.
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There is a difference between reporting and hackery. As consumers of news it is our opinion as to which is which.
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And, if “calling someone out”, is asking who their sources happen to be as the basis for their specific blog posting, then so be it. Consider my job well done.

rusty,

What the Republicans are really angry about is Reid did not allow them to add pork, perks for special interests and poison pills to kill the bill.

All to often unnecessay amendments are added which have nothing to do with the purpose of the bill. It is not just Republicans. Democrats loaded the stimulus bill with all sorts of pork which didn’t belong and hindered the bill’s effectiveness.

Republicans (and Democrats) should be more concerned with helping the American people instead of scoring political points.

Ah, yes, the term limits story. I forgot. I’ll post that now. I was on CNN at 12:20 yesterday for a panel on health care reform. Karen will be on this afternoon @ 2pm – so tune in!

I don’t see Reid trying a bite-sized approach to financial rereg- though maybe he should!

JNS

Like many laws that tinker with the tax code in order to achieve some sort of social or economic objective, this one will provide little bang for the buck. Most of the money goes to employers who hire people previously unemployed for sixty days or more. But a lot of emplyers were going to add to their workforce anyway. Something like four million jobs disappear each month, to be replaced, even in these straitened times, by four million jobs (or more, in better times) that are newly created. Most of the new jobs that entitle employers to tax savings under this law would have been created even if the law didn’t exist. I don’t know the ratio, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that for each new job directly attributable to the tax incentive, ten or more would still have been created without it. And all ten of those will get the tax break too.
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The CBO’s report on the success of the stimulus makes it quite clear that tax cuts and tax incentives are far inferior to direct spending as a means of creating jobs. We need another stimulus bill. To waste even a piddling (!) $14 billion on an “incentive” known to be inefficient and wasteful is just political theater, and everyone voting for that bill should be ashamed.

Couldn’t she have just stamped her feet and held her breath for a while? OK, a long while.

Um, when Baucus reported out of his committee a bill with Olympia Snowe on board and Reid decided he didn’t want to deal with Snowe or Collins or Voinovich or any Republicans and negotiated a dems only deal.
JNS

Jay: You are being cited for the excessive use of the phrase ‘you know’ when you appeared on the Brian Lehrer radio show WNYC on 02/24/10…