Press Staff Blog
Before you head home (or to your Thanksgiving destination) tonight, we’ll leave you with this Politico story about CBO’s report that the Recovery Act added up to 3.3 million jobs in the third quarter of 2011.
Some highlights:
“The economy would have been in much worse shape without the 2009 stimulus—-which increased employment in the third quarter of this year by as many as 3.3 million full-time jobs, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.”
To: Reporters, Editors, Producers
Fr: Democratic Leader and Democratic Whip Press Offices
Dt: November 22, 2011
Re: Afternoon Roundup - Republican Refusal Edition
One look at today’s news makes it clear: the GOP's insistence on an unfair plan that extends the Bush tax cuts for those making more than a million dollars a year led to these headlines…
With Speaker Boehner and Reps. Mica and Hastings set to discuss a long-term surface transportation bill at a press conference this morning, we here in the Democratic Whip Press Shop wanted to offer up a few suggested questions to pose for the lawmakers:
1.) After 11 months in the majority, why have Republicans still not come up with a comprehensive jobs plan?
2.) If Republicans are focused on infrastructure as you claim, why did Senate Republicans block a bill that contained provisions of the American Jobs Act that would have invested in infrastructure and created jobs?
As House Democrats continue to highlight the need to protect voting rights, we wanted to draw your attention to yesterday’s vote in Maine, where voters solidly overturned a Republican-passed law ending same-day voter registration on Election Day. The right to register at one’s polling place had been a Maine mainstay for over forty years until the Republican-controlled state legislature in June enacted a law requiring voters to register at least two days in advance.
With only two weeks until the Joint Select Committee’s deadline, Democrats are still pushing for a big, bold, and balanced plan - and today we’ve got a poll that shows the majority of Americans agree with that approach.
As Republicans continue their streak of doing pretty much nothing at all, President Obama made another announcement today about action he can take without relying on Republicans to actually do something. Today’s announcement was on Head Start and early childhood education (which as you all know Whip Hoyer has been an advocate of for years). To ensure greater accountability in the program, the rule would require low-performing Head Start centers to reapply and compete for their federal funding, which will help improve access to high-quality early childhood education.
As Republicans continue their streak of doing pretty much nothing at all, President Obama made another announcement today about action he can take without relying on Republicans to actually do something. Today’s announcement was on Head Start and early childhood education (which as you all know Whip Hoyer has been an advocate of for years). To ensure greater accountability in the program, the rule would require low-performing Head Start centers to reapply and compete for their federal funding, which will help improve access to high-quality early childhood education.