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A May 21, 2009, article in The Washington Post stated, "To build support for the stimulus package, President Obama vowed unprecedented transparency, a big part of which, he said, would be allowing taxpayers to track money to the street level on Recovery.gov..." But three months after the bill was signed, Recovery.gov offers little beyond news ...
Barack Obama sponsored 147 bills from January 4, 2005 until November 16, 2008. Two became law. [1] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Nunn Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006.
Speaking in Cleveland, President Barack Obama offered more details of his plan to get the nation's economic recovery back in gear. Facing polling data that shows his Democratic party may lose one ...
President Obama and Congress approved the recent $700 billion stimulus package for one crucial reason: to provide jobs.Now, states and other recipients of this windfall are struggling to launch ...
The bill was a counter-proposal to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 introduced by President Barack Obama. [1] HR 470 proposes to stimulate the economy without new government spending by implementing a permanent five-percentage point income tax cut for all taxpayers; it also would make permanent current capital gains and dividend tax rates at 15% (current law will allowing ...
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on an $820-$900 billion fiscal stimulus bill and send it to a congressional conference committee, a stark reality confronts lawmakers: the stimulus package may ...
The good news is that something resembling an economic stimulus package is ready to go President Obama's desk. The bad news is that it contains significant amounts of Stimulus bill is only 64% ...
On February 17, 2009, Obama signed into law a $787 billion economic stimulus bill that included spending for health care, infrastructure, education, various tax breaks and incentives, and direct assistance to individuals. The tax provisions of the law, including a $116 billion income tax cut, temporarily reduced taxes for 98% of taxpayers ...