Holding My Breath Again
Jan 25th, 2008 at 10:38 pm by Susie
Let’s see if he pulls this off:
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate will change the economic stimulus plan agreed to by the House and the Bush administration and likely increase unemployment benefits, Senator Charles Schumer, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said.
More spending on unemployment benefits and food stamps will generate “more bang for the buck,” said Schumer, a New Yorker who is the Senate’s No. 3 Democrat. The package of provisions designed to boost economic growth was announced yesterday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
“The economists tell us that the No. 1 thing to get money into the economy fast is extending unemployment benefits and maybe increasing them by a little bit temporarily,” Schumer said in an in interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” scheduled to air today. “It’s something we’d like to see added in.”
Dammit - I saw this this morning, but had to move the trailer, and so now have to cite you, you..you…bff.
There goes my flat panel.