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WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Today just might be the day so many have been waiting for, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to finish crafting the Senate's health care bill and send it over to the green shades for a price estimate.
Reid's is scheduled to meet the press in just a few hours to provide an update.
Health care continues to dominate on the Hill, as both the House and Senate inch closer to voting day (or voting weeks. We're expecting at least two weeks of floor debate in the Senate.)
But that doesn't mean other business is grinding to a halt. The debate on climate change opens this week in the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee with several days of testimony.
Also on tap this week is an effort by the Senate to extend unemployment insurance -- which is important in the Las Vegas area where the jobless rate is pushing toward 14 percent. Congress also continues to consider extending the first-time homebuyers' tax credit, even after it was reported last week there is widespread fraud in the program.
Demcoratic Rep. Shelley Berkley is working on a bill to extend the estate tax that expires at the end of this year.
And later this week, the Democratic Rep. Dina Titus will have a front row seat to OSHA reforms as the House Education and Labor Committee (on which she serves) takes up the Occuaptional Health and Safety Administration's blistering review of Nevada OSHA.
That's all for now. Check back later for all the political news from Nevada.
Talk about a perfect storm.At a time when America and the world needs a strong fiscally responsible president, we get just the opposite. This inexperience not even one term junior sen from Chicago, would rather spend more time talking about FOX news then focusing in on all those JOBS he and harry promised.And leave it to those tax and spend Dem's,to put more taxes on struggling americans(with more big entitlement programs) at a time when they should be lightening the burdens.If they had a clue (which they don't)they would put off this government run health-care overhaul to a time when the economy is doing better. our economy is still at the brink ,but these elitist jokers act like money grows on trees and have know concept of what a deficit(or the effects of it) is.I doubt most of them can even spell deficit. And how many times is Obama and the Dem's going to blame everything and the kitchen sink on the former administration ?Please Obama,Harry and Nancy GIVE US A BREAK . Obama is a horrible president an absolute horrible one.He and this congress will go down as one of the worst in history,and at a time when we all need the best.A perfect storm!!! God help us.You notice how they no longer call it global warming but climate change ? May it has to do with the FACT that the climate is getting cooler.This has nothing to do with protecting the earth but has everything to do with control and making big money.people should ask some of these tree huggers Dem's(AL gore) how much money they will be making with their "green stock investments" if certain favorable laws are passed ?But grab it all while you can,because were most of them are going,they wont be able to take it with them.And that's something you can 'bank' on !!And remember folks the words of benedict Arnold oh I mean Harry Reed "The war is lost,and the surge will never work" can we say emboldening the enemy ?The quicker Nevada cuts this disease off, the quicker real health will come back!!!!
It's good to see that climate change is on the list of front burner topics. It's about time it got there (actually, well past time).
On health care, stopblamingamerica, I think fixing it will reduce costs in our economy immensely, as well as save lives. And the CBO even predicted the Baucus bill would decrease the federal deficit over ten years. So it seems like a worthy cause to help the economy to me.
On climate change, there is no "global cooling." I don't know what you plan on citing to back up your claim, but ere are two recent developments that I have seen.
The Associated Press decided to look at this "global cooling" claim by blind-testing some statisticians. They found that claiming there is "global cooling" is dishonest; in short, there isn't any. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...
Second, leaders of 18 national scientific organizations just wrote a letter to Congress last week reaffirming the consensus (their word, not mine; I'm not forcing any idea of consensus on you, just saying what they said) among the scientific community about the dangers of human-caused climate change. They urged action on this front. Again, I am glad to see it happening. http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2009/m...
Senator Reid, do what you can to allocate time for passing climate change legislation. We need a carbon cap in this country to mitigate the negative effects of climate change and rebuild our economy on a green, sustainable footing of clean energy, less foreign oil, and high-tech high-paying jobs in the sustainable technologies industry.