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GOP leaders doubt stimulus bill will pass Senate
AP
Monday, Feb 2, 2009
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive
stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional
Democrats could go down to defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary
spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cut.
The Senate version of the bill, which topped out at nearly
$900 billion, is headed to the floor for debate. The House bill
totaled about $819 billion and earned no Republican votes, even
though it easily passed the Democratic-controlled House. At
some point lawmakers will need to compromise on the competing
versions.
McConnell and other Republicans suggested that the bill needed
an overhaul because it doesn't pump enough into the private
sector through tax cuts and allows Democrats to go on a spending
spree unlikely to jolt the economy. The Republican leader also
complained that Democrats had not been as bipartisan in writing
the bill as Obama had said he wanted.
"I think it may be time ... for the president to kind
of get a hold of these Democrats in the Senate and the House,
who have rather significant majorities, and shake them a little
bit and say, 'Look, let's do this the right way,'" McConnell
said. "I can't believe that the president isn't embarrassed
about the products that have been produced so far."
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