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Posts Tagged ‘Debbie Stabenow’

• Today’s Calamity: Senate Concerns on Cap and Trade Cannot Be Fixed

  Posted October 29th, 2009 at 1:08pm in Energy and Environment with 3 comments

  Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus made headlines this week for something other than healthcare. On October 27 Senator Baucus said he has “serious reservations” about the cap and trade bill, especially the increased near-term target of 20 percent carbon dioxide reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 – up from 17 percent in the passed House [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Senate Begins Voting on Obamacare This Week

  Posted October 20th, 2009 at 10:25am in Health Care with 32 comments

  After thousands of Americans attended hundreds of townhalls this summer, after the President of the United States delivered a rare speech to a Joint Session of Congress, after endless coverage of legislative markups in the relevant congressional committees, what if the Senate began actual floor votes on the health care overhaul and the drive-by media [...] More

• The Senate’s Health Care Shell Game

  Posted October 15th, 2009 at 2:32pm in Health Care with 22 comments

  According to the Associated Press, at the direction of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senate Democrats are plotting to pass a bill, by as early as next week, that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a decade. This will no doubt add to the deficit. Why are the Democrats so [...] More

• Cash for Clunkers Failed to Create Auto Jobs

  Posted September 4th, 2009 at 2:41pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 5 comments

  Congress passed the Cash for Clunkers program in order to increase automobile employment and save jobs. As Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow – a key supporter of the law – put it, “This is a jobs program first.” Cash for Clunkers has done many things. It has given hundreds of thousands of Americans vouchers worth between [...] More