Newsweek reveals a series of newly released documents from the Department of Energy that shows all of the Republican members of the Michigan congressional delegation seeking stimulus funding for projects in the state on the grounds that such spending would create jobs — despite frequently claiming that the stimulus More…
The Obama administration unveiled today a report that says the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $100 billion investment in “innovation” will lead to a number of significant energy-related “breakthroughs.”
To pay for a much-needed, job-saving and job-creating bill to help ease states’ budget woes, Democrats have made further cuts to food stamps, and for the first time ever, benefit recipients could see their monthly checks shrink.
Today, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released their latest quarterly report on the stimulus and estimated that the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act has increased total employment by between 2.2 and 2.8 million jobs — with tax cuts and income support saving or creating approximately half of More…
President Obama is speaking this morning at the Brookings Institution to outline his strategy for tackling the employment crisis. Before he spoke a word, Republican leaders were already attacking the news that the administration is eyeing TARP funds to pay the tab for the new stimulus bill.
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Thomas Frank has a terrific op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, praising President Obama’s recent presidential memorandum declaring the end of an era of unrestrained government outsourcing.
The president “meant to put the kibosh on the GOP’s favorite method for spreading the wealth around,” Frank writes, noting the More…
Amid the Democrats’ boostering and the Republicans’ assaults on the final stimulus package, almost no one is focusing on a key part of the bill that will be critical to making it work: accountability for how that $787 billion is spent. In fact, a look at the final bill reveals More…
Turns out the final language included in the agreed-upon stimulus bill does indeed include protections for employees of government contractors — like KBR, Halliburton, etc. — who report fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money, even if they report within their own company rather than to an outside government agency. More…
House Democratic leaders were forced to put off until Friday a vote on the $789 billion economic stimulus bill after many rank-and-file Democrats who were unhappy with some spending cuts demanded time to read the compromise measure.
That will be tough to do. The bill text has yet More…
Here’s some good news: since our story Tuesday about Congress’ failure to include adequate protection for government contractor whistleblowers in the stimulus bill, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has taken up the cause.
McCaskill has introduced a whistleblower amendment — S.AMDT. 196 — to the stimulus bill. Although the amendment More…
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