All Posts Tagged With: "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan"
A Big Picture Look At the Stimulus One Year On
And it is — on the terms it was passed — a definite success.
David Leonhart wrote this must read article at the NYT on Tuesday, that starts like this:
Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked.
Let’s say this bill had started spending money within a matter of weeks and [...]
High-Risk Energy Grants Awarded To Delaware
Over $150 million in grants were awarded to 37 different “radical” energy research projects reports The New York Times. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), that received its initial funding of $400 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is distributing the monies in 17 states. ARPA-E breaks down the distribution further:
Of the lead recipients, [...]
Obama Details Help to Small Businesses
All across America, even today, on a Saturday, millions of Americans are hard at work. They’re running the mom and pop stores and neighborhood restaurants we know and love. They’re building tiny startups with big ideas that could revolutionize an industry, maybe even transform our economy. They are the more than half of all Americans [...]
24Oct2009 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
Okay. Mike Castle is our Next Senator. It has been decided on high.
All the signs are pointing to a Castle Senate run and I appears that the fix is in. Just check out the Newark Post coverage of the AMTRACK stimulus event:
14Jul2009 | jason330 | 6 comments | ContinuedThe Amtrak Bear Car Shops took time out to celebrate the completion of the first passenger car to be rebuilt with stimulus funds.
Sen. Thomas Carper, Gov. Jack Markell and U.S. Rep. Mike Castle joined Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman and employees at the sprawling complex off Route 40 to tour the rebuilt car that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Wednesday’s Open Thread
Yesterday, we had our first successful open thread with some good discussion and links from our readers. Well done, people, well done.
For a starting point, some posts yesterday that you might have missed are that a Republican actually stood up to Rush Limbaugh, Kris Kristofferson is kind of cool and Vermont legalizes it (gay marriage) [...]
GOP Governors Can Reject Stimulus Money
A non-partisan Congressional Report just released concludes “that it likely would be unconstitutional for a legislature to supplant a governor in accepting and using economic stimulus money.”
The Congressional Research Service analysis could imperil tens of millions of stimulus dollars reserved for South Carolina and Texas, whose governors have said they will reject some of their [...]
Breaking: Recovery.Delaware.gov
Take a look at Delaware’s Recovery site. More later.
11Mar2009 | nemski | 9 comments | Continued
Delaware’s Slowness with ARRA
According to Recovery.org, Delaware is not certified for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds nor do we have a website for transparency of ARRA funds.
The following states are ARRA certified: Connecticut, District of Columbia (yes, I know they are not a state), Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, [...]
QoD: What’s Jim Sills Doing?
What do Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas and Colorado NOT have in common with Delaware?
All of these states have websites that detail how they are spending their American Recovery and Reinvestment monies. Delaware does not.
Gov. Markell, it’s time to get Jim Sills to work.
GOP Stimulus Myths Exposed
Media Matters: It does a body good.
$220,000 per job? Try $70,000.
$30 million for the salt marsh harvest mouse? Not in the bill.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that full cost will reach $3.2 trillion by 2019? No, their estimate was $787,242,000.
$2/$4 billion for ACORN? Nope. $2 billion for ACORN-elligible community block grants? ACORN itself has stated [...]
Chart of the Day
Great graphic depiction of the recovery plan — with the old numbers, though:
And once you get the larger image, you can click anywhere on it to see it closer.
(h/t creditloan.com)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
The time has come for Republicans to put their NO votes where their mouths are. Let them filibuster.
11Feb2009 | pandora | 20 comments | Continued
On Boosting Congressional Financial Literacy
Steven Pearlstein, a business columnist for the Washington Post writes a scathing column asking for a Personal Financial Trainer for every Representative and Senator in Congress. Pearlstein isn’t concerned about overheated rhetoric — he is pointing out the real deficiencies in knowledge here, deficiencies (no matter the policy differences) are actually pretty scary. [...]
8Feb2009 | cassandra_m | 22 comments | Continued
Senate Recovery Bill Text
PDF of the Senate Version — S. 336.
The Huffington Post has an embeddable copy of the bill (via docstoc) at their site, and they are asking for volunteers to compare the Senate Bill and HB1 as passed to begin a full scale search for the differences. If you have time and the inclination, go [...]
Where the Outrage Should Be Directed
Here?
Or here?
You decide.
7Feb2009 | pandora | 21 comments | Continued
Recovery Deal
According to the NYT (and the BBC who is reporting this now), the Dem leadership plus the so-called moderate group reached a deal on the recovery package. As of now, there aren’t many details and no clear info on when a vote will be taken. Senator Kennedy has returned to DC to vote [...]
7Feb2009 | cassandra_m | 12 comments | Continued
More Like This Please!
President Obama gives a rousing reminder of what the Congress should be doing and what the stakes are: (in two parts)
6Feb2009 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
Women and Children First
Followed by cops and firefighters. You can screw science, as well. But rest easy, defense spending will increase under the latest stimulus plan changes.
Total Reductions: $80 billion
Eliminations:
Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western Area Power Administration, CDC, [...]
Talking Point Smackdown — Honeybees!
One of the resident wingnuts brought up a portion of the recovery package that is supposed to support honeybees — of course, you consider the source and presume that you are dealing with more manufactured outrage over something silly. Little did I know. Yesterday evening, I found out exactly what she was talking [...]
6Feb2009 | cassandra_m | 15 comments | Continued
This is the PROBLEM – Updated!
How do you justify calling on the Senate to oppose an Economic Recovery Bill that hasn’t even been debated/amended yet?
House Republicans are pushing their Senate colleagues to stand unanimously against President Obama’s stimulus package, as they themselves did in the lower chamber last week.
“We are urging our Senate colleagues to join every House Republican in [...]
Zero is an Easy Number to Remember
At a time when Americans are looking to their government to do something, doing nothing strikes me as political suicide. And that’s exactly what Republicans did yesterday – Nothing. Even worse, they did “nothing” in lockstep.
And, no matter how many politicians and pundits they trot out to defend their position only one message will come [...]
Job Impact Report
President-Elect Obama mentions in his weekly video address the Job Impact Report. And here is Christine Roehmer, the Chair-designate for the Council of Economic Adviser, discussing the report.
I have yet a chance to read this report, but I wanted to get this out here for all of you to see. So while I take down [...]
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