H.R.1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. view all titles (35)

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  • Short: Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act of 2009 as enacted.
  • Short: TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2009 as enacted.
  • Short: Jobs Accountability Act as enacted.
  • Short: HITECH Act as enacted.
  • Short: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act as enacted.
  • Short: Employ American Workers Act as enacted.
  • Short: Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act as enacted.
  • Short: American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 as enacted.
  • Short: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as enacted.
  • Short: Medicare and Medicaid Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act as passed senate.
  • Short: M-HITECH Act as passed senate.
  • Short: Jobs Accountability Act as passed senate.
  • Short: HITECH Act as passed senate.
  • Short: Help Families Keep Their Homes Act of 2009 as passed senate.
  • Short: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act as passed senate.
  • Short: Employ American Workers Act as passed senate.
  • Short: Cap Executive Officer Pay Act of 2009 as passed senate.
  • Short: Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act as passed senate.
  • Short: American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 as passed senate.
  • Short: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as passed senate.
  • Short: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Official: Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Official: Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Short: American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Short: Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act as introduced.
  • Short: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act as introduced.
  • Short: Health Insurance Assistance for the Unemployed Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Short: HITECH Act as introduced.
  • Short: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as passed house.
  • Short: American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 as passed house.
  • Short: Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act as passed house.
  • Short: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act as passed house.
  • Short: Health Insurance Assistance for the Unemployed Act of 2009 as passed house.
  • Short: HITECH Act as passed house.
  • Short: Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 as passed house.

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01/26/09
Read The Stimulus

We have all heard words of an era of increased transparency. With nearly a trillion dollars under debate in the proposed stimulus package, such transparency would be most useful right now: before we as a nation make irrevocable decisions about how to deal with the economic crisis that we face together.

01/26/09
Read It and Weep

Web designer and energetic conservative Rob Neppell has the entire stimulus package online, in a searchable format, at ReadTheStimulus.org. Rob will provide updates as the bill makes its way through Congress to the President's desk.

01/26/09
What instead?

3. Bank recapitalization. This will cost lots and we should reallocate money away from "stimulus" toward this problem. Falling aggregate demand is a derivative problem in today's crisis but this is a fundamental problem.

01/26/09
File under: "I already filed that."

Love the set-up, too: "Republicans plan to test President Barack Obama's commitment to bipartisanship?"

01/26/09
Instapundit on the stimulus

The “stimulus” isn’t about fixing things — it’s an embodiment of Rhett Butler’s theory of wealth accumulation in bad times. My take remains this one: “This is not so much a stimulus, as a massive transfer of wealth from the politically unconnected to the politically connected.”

Source: Instapundit
01/26/09
TPMDC Sunday Roundup re: Stimulus

The Associated Press says that the ban on earmarks in the new stimulus package won't stop lobbyists from being able to get money set aside for their local clients throughout the country. Instead of specifying that money spent for a particular project, the same result can be accomplished through manipulation of the supposedly objective formulas and guidelines used to determine where money would go.

Source: TPM-DC
01/26/09
House Stimulus Bill (FULL TEXT)

The 647-page House stimulus package scored the coveted designation of H.R. 1, which the Speaker reserves for her highest legislative or symbolic priority. The bill is a combination of legislation that moved this week through the Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce and Appropriations Committees.

01/26/09
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Posted Online

The Rules Committee has posted The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 online. The bill will be formally introduced on Monday, January 26th. Read the legislation (.pdf)>>

Source: Speaker.gov
01/26/09
Radical Social Agenda Buried Deep in Obama’s Economic Stimulus ...

Buried deep within HR 1, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the economic stimulus legislation, is Section 5004, State Eligibility Option for Family Planning Services, a gift to family planning clinics on one side, ...

01/26/09
The Uneducated Housewife's Guide to Politics: HR 1

Two Dogs sent me a copy of HR 1 this weekend... nearly 650 pages. I've read a good deal of it. You should too. He has a link to it today up on his blog along with many other links y'all should check out. ...

01/26/09
Buried Deep Inside H.R. 1… | The News Junkie

You know what would really save the economy? Frisbee golf. There are plenty of suggestions for bridge repairs, road paving projects, new buses, trolley,

01/26/09
OpenCongress - OpenCongress Blog - House Posts Stimulus Bill :: H.R 1

The biggest bill so far in this session of Congress has arrived and is scheduled to be introduced today: H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This is the much-anticipated House version of the massive federal ...

01/26/09
Key Questions on the Stimulus Package « S E N A T U S

News outlets are going crazy today with articles and reports on the $825 billion economic stimulus package. Rightly so, given the state of the economy and the urgency of some type of action. But it can get a little difficult to follow ...

Source: SENATUS
01/26/09
Speech in Opposition to H.R. 1 - Bailout | Congressman Tom ...

Speech in Opposition to H.R. 1 - Bailout. January 27, 2009 7:38 PM. House Chamber, Washington, D.C., January 27, 2009. Mr. Chairman:. With this measure, the new administration seems bound and determined to continue the failed policy of ...

01/26/09
House Stimulus Bill Scored by CBO | Capital Gains and Games

The Congressional Budget Office just estimated that H.R.1, the House version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will add $169.5 b. of deficit/stimulus in FY09 and $356.0 b. in FY10, assuming a mid-February effective ...

01/26/09
Congressional Budget Office - H.R. 1, American Recovery and ...

H.R. 1, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. January 26, 2009. Cost estimate for the bill as introduced in the House of Representatives on January 26, 2009. PDF Go to Documents · BLOG Go to Documents ...

01/26/09
COMMITTEE ON RULES - H. Res. 92: H.R. 1 – American Recovery and ...

HR 1 – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

01/26/09
Oinkers Feast | Bearing Drift :: Virginia Politics and Podcasts

H.R.1 - the Democrat’s Stimulus Package — now this is a doozy. I don’t even know where to start. Only 3.6% of this spending is for the famed highway infrastructure that we need so badly. Heck, split that evenly over the states (which ...

01/26/09
Democrats Screw the Troops in Stimulus - Erick’s blog - RedState

Thad McCotter (R-MI), introduced an amendment to the President’s stimulus bill (H.R. 1) that would require any new infrastructure project – roads, bridges, schools, post offices or any other buildings — created by funding provided in ...

01/26/09
Your Congress At Work, A Listing Of Today’s Introduced Legislation ...

H.RES.88 : Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1) making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and ...

01/26/09
Interest cost on stimulus bill: $347 billion over 10 years

Paul Ryan (R-WI) asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate just the debt service on the stimulus plan (H.R. 1), i.e., how much it would cost in interest. You can download the PDF with the reply at ...

Source: 24Ahead
01/26/09
Americans for Tax Reform Center for Fiscal Accountability

The Center for Fiscal Accountability urges all Members to vote against H.R. 1, the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.” Under the guise of “stimulus”, proponents of this bill seek to put taxpayers on the hook to pay for a .

01/26/09
ReadTheStimulus.org « RBO

“In combining the spending and revenue effects of H.R. 1, CBO estimates that enacting the bill would increase federal budget deficits by $169 billion over the remaining months of fiscal year 2009, by $356 billion in 2010, ...

01/26/09
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Wall Street

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - CBO has released a cost estimate for HR 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was introduced today in the House of Representatives. A link to the ...

01/26/09
STIMULUS BILL MAY NOT ALLOW REPAYING OF RAIDED TRUST FUNDS « Clips ...

However, the bill (H.R. 1) currently being debated in the U.S. House that would allocate the proposed $825 billion stimulus says that Medicaid funding would not be increased to states that use the money to repay rainy day funds or ...

01/26/09
OpenCongress - U.S. Congress - H.R.702 To amend the Elementary and ...

Most Viewed Bills:. H.R.45 · H.R.1 · S.1 · H.R.414 · S.181 · H.J.Res.5. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation. Questions? Comments? Contact Us ...

01/26/09
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Politics

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - CBO has released a cost estimate for HR 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was introduced today in the House of Representatives. A link to the ...

01/26/09
HR 1: House Economic Stimulus Plan « Epiphanyblog

HR 1: House Economic Stimulus Plan. With so much talk about this plan and its component parts, I decided to review the House Economic Stimulus Plan as posted on the House Appropriations Committee website. Unfortunately, no quick reading ...

01/26/09
More BS found in the “stimulus” package | Kevin Colby: News and ...

Overview of some of the major items found in this bill in terms of spending. You can form your own judgments. You can find the full text of the bill, HR 1.

01/26/09
CBO Cost Estimate: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ...

Combining the spending and revenue effects of H.R. 1, CBO estimates that enacting the bill would increase federal budget deficits by $170 billion over the remaining months of fiscal year 2009, by $356 billion in 2010, by $174 billion in ...

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