Please, Senators, Vote "NO" on Stimulus Bill

        Please, Senators Wyden and Merkley, vote “No” on the current Senate stimulus package. Insist on a bill that will provide budget stability to Oregon’s state government and the programs it funds. Oregon should not be laying off teachers, public safety worker, human service workers and others dependent on state funding while our national government funds infrastructure and other federal priorities in Oregon. I’m for a big stimulus bill. I’m for it yesterday. But better that it is a little late than wrong.

            And let’s have a public impact analysis of what the stimulus package will do in Oregon before voting. Oregon’s state revenues are declining. The stimulus bill is complex. Funds would come to us to fill in those revenue holes through a variety of components of the stimulus bill. I want to see that analysis before you vote. Support a transparent, competent process for making these budget decisions.

            Frankly, as a Democrat, I’m a little miffed at both the Democrats in our congressional delegation and in Salem. Don’t they talk to one another? Can’t they coordinate and put together a stimulus bill that is good for Oregon. Why are not the Governor and legislative leadership telling the congressional delegation that we need more?

            I don’t care whether you take money from other proposed federal spending components or from proposed tax cut components, but do not support a federal stimulus bill that leaves Oregon state government and the programs it supports without the funding they need. That should be priority number one in a stimulus bill. And, you both should know that!

Comments

[Ruth Adkins]

Dave, my take on this is the Senators should be voting yes, but in conference they must stop trying to accommodate the obstructionist R's and push hard for amendments to restore the funding in the House version (for education and other infrastructure investments) as well as taking out the wasteful tax cuts that the Senate "centrists" larded it up with.

As I understand it, the House version of the bill would provide significant and immediate relief to the state budget (which would have huge impact on keeping schools whole), would have $16 billion for school construction (a good start) as well as a "down payment" on long-needed investment in programs like Head Start, special ed, and Title 1 for low-income kids.

[christian louboutin shoes]

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[pandora]

nist R's and push hard for amendments to restore the funding in the House version (for education and other infrastructure investments) as well as taking out the wasteful tax cuts that the Senate "centrists" larded it up with.

As I understand it, the House ve

[louboutin]

re whether you take money from other proposed federal spending components or from proposed tax cut components, but do not support a federal stimulus bill that leaves

[Pandora Charms]

e laying off teachers, public safety worker, human service workers and others dependent on state funding while our national government funds infrastructure and other federal priorities in Oregon. I’m for a big stimulus bill. I’m for it