Senate Begins Voting on Economic Stimulus Bill

The House wrapped up today and passed the Bill, and handed it back over to the Senate to rush to the vote. They are currently passing the bill at the time of this writing. CSPAN reports 59 votes, and one more needed to pass:

Senate Voting on Stimulus Bill
Today

Earlier today, the House passed H.R. 1 by a vote of 246-183. The Senate is currently voting on final passage and currently has 59 YES votes and is waiting on Sen. Brown (D-OH) to make it 60. It takes sixty votes in the Senate for passage.

It would seem some workers at this Caterpiller plant don't believe this bill will help anything. It won't help them keep their jobs, at least, that's what the article says.

WE ARE SUNK

This excerpt from an article on the Washington Post website today, says it all:

But in a key symbolic rejection of that bipartisan reach, Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.), a freshman who holds the seat once held by Lincoln, said he would vote no. Schock attended yesterday's event at Caterpillar's headquarters in his district, where President Obama pledged that the plan would save jobs at the construction company's plants. But afterward, Schock said in today's debate, "Not one employee at that facility approached me asked me to vote for this bill." He said more than 1,000 employees contacted him to ask that he oppose the bill.

The HAVE's and the HAVE NOT's, The Madoff's and the Dead Beats... And the rest of us stuck in the middle, stuck with the bill. As will be my kid's, and my grand-kids. Gee thanks Mr. President for the New Hope. More pork. More tennis courts for schools, More Welfare, More new computers for government agencies.

MORE TALK, NO WALK!!!