From Yesterday's session. I heard John Kerry rocked the house today. I came late to the party though and I missed it.
Please UN-recommend the first and second diary and Recommend this one, so we don't overload the Rec. list.
Around 250-300 comments, we might need a volunteer for a fourth diary.
Hopefully this blog involves better speeches than the 2nd diary did. I guess Amy Klobuchar's was the best speech, but it wasn't youtube worthy. We're not starting out well with the ramblings of Chuck Grassley. Any chance Senator Sanders will be speaking? Who do you all want to hear from?'
If this gets boring, and it seems to be going that way. Feel free to take a minute and call or e-mail your Senator's office. We need to keep the heat on them. Let them know what you think about yesterday's disastrous Nelson/Collins cuts.
Jed L- Compromising Away One Million Jobs...Or Is It Two?
UPDATE: It's over. And we didn't get to hear from Roland Burris!! They will meet again 1pm ET on Monday to decide whether to vote or not.
Please check out that article by Jed. As well as this one about why bike paths are important called No, Seriously: Republicans Don't Get It by Rep. Earl Blumenauer
CNN has the list of what got cut from the stimulus:
These really steam my bean:
$65 million for watershed rehabilitation CUT.
$98 million for school nutrition
• $50 million for NASA
• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife
• $50 million for aeronautics
• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Managemen
• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity
They are all annoying cuts. I can't believe anyone would call this stuff pork.
Second UPDATE:
here are links to the first two parts of the liveblog
Liveblog I: C-SPAN Debate by Colorado is the Shiznit
and
Liveblog II: C-SPAN Debate (Update: New Thread) by Maggie-Mae
Here are the videos! courtesy of karenc Wow what a cool new tool this is. I'm off to check out John Kerry's video. I heard it's a great one. He was amazing when I saw him in Feb '08 in SF and I loved his DNC speech!