Happy Fourth of July!
What better way to celebrate the founding of our nation than . . . um, by . . . blogging?
Those were the words that introduced the WashingtonWatch.com blog one year ago yesterday – well, one year and two days ago.
That’s right, this blog debuted exactly one year ago, give or [...]
“What are they doing with our money? I mean, are they just giving it away? This is our money!”
So asks one woman, who received a $250 check made out to her father. He passed away 35 years ago.
And the answer is, Well, yes! That’s what the economic stimulus is all about – giving away money. [...]
The Wall Street Journal has finalized their interactive summary of the stimulus/deficit spending bill. (I wrote about it here.)
Check it out. Click around to see what ended up in the bill. Most of all, have fun.
Friday afternoon, the White House blog announced that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was posted online for public comment.
According to a campaign promise the President made, a promise repeated on his Web site, the bills that are sent to him will be posted online for public comment for five days before he [...]
The Congressional Budget Office has produced a cost estimate for the conference agreement on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – the version of the bill being debated in both the House and the Senate today.
Our number crunching comes up with the following results: The bill costs the average U.S. family [...]
Though the text of the legislation was only made available late last night, the House will vote on the conference report for the economic stimulus bill today. That’s the version agreed on by representatives of both the House and Senate.
The bill is available at this link to the House Speaker’s Web site. It’s [...]
Here’s Paul Blumenthal of the Sunlight Foundation on the closed process being used to ram through the deficit-spending/economic stimulus bill:
[I]t is not just Republicans who are being denied access to the bill. Reporters, bloggers, and the general public are being denied an opportunity to review one of the most important pieces of legislation sent [...]
Want to roll up your sleeves and pick through the different versions of the economic stimulus bill? The Wall Street Journal has what you need.
Their online feature, “The Stimulus Plans: How They Differ,” has broken out all the spending in the House and Senate bills and noted the differences between the two. Amounts [...]
Republicans in the House and Senate are calling for the conference committee on the economic stimulus bill to be televised. It’s a fascinating idea.
A conference committee is a meeting among representatives of both the House and the Senate to work out differences between the two bodies on similar legislation. Both the [...]