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Originally Posted by Danzig
from todays paper:
'After Republicans blocked Obama's infrastructure plan, the president's Democratic allies immediately refused, on a 53-47 vote, to advance a Republican plan to extend federal highway, public transportation and surface transportation programs for two years, ease some environmental rules and give Congress more oversight of agency rule making. It would have been paid for by rescinding $40 billion in unspent funds appropriated for other domestic programs.'
yep, it's all the republicans fault. yepyepyep.
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Hardly any reasonable comparison. The Republican bill was nothing more than "approve current funding" for some stuff, and cut funding massively for others, and cut regulations - so "job creators feel more confident with less regulation". Not one job created there by the GOP. Just deregulation and funding cuts.
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The GOP alternative continued funding transportation and other infrastructure projects at current levels, but also ended a highway beautification program and delayed or eliminated various federal regulations, including a number of environmental rules.
It was criticized by environmental groups, which charged that the legislation rolled back key federal regulations protecting public health and safety and did not spur job creation. Republicans said that reducing federal regulations would help businesses create jobs by lowering their costs.
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