Wanna know what lawmakers did today? What they said in committee, on the floor, on the news shows and elsewhere? What articles, shows, Internet videos and more grabbed their attention? Who sniped at whom, and why? Get the inside scoop at “Hill Tweet News,” a Twitter-based service of AirCongress.
Here are today’s Top 5 tweets, followed by the rest of today’s edition of “Hill Tweet News“:
- Via @HouseFloor, the House passed a bill to address the housing crisis. The mostly party-line vote was 234-191.
- @donmanzullo Letting judges rewrite mortgage contracts would wreak havoc with lenders, cause interest rates to rise.
- @clairecmc Cherry-picking earmarks to vote against is kissing cousin to cherry-picking projects to fund. I voted to strip all.
- @ChuckGrassley heard from Treasury Secy that 60 jobs in Waterloo, Iowa, related to collecting back taxes are being canceled.
- A reminder from @MarkeyMemo as the time is about to change: Daylight savings = $500 million in energy savings.
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Categories: Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, Labor, Edward Markey, Budget, Taxes, Economy, Executive Branch, Housing, Bailouts, Claire McCaskill, Hill Tweet News, Don Manzullo, Chuck Grassley
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Wanna know what lawmakers are doing today? What they’re saying in committee, on the floor, on the news shows and elsewhere? What articles, shows, Internet videos and more grab their attention? Who’s sniping at whom, and why? Get the inside scoop at “Hill Tweet News,” a Twitter-based service of AirCongress.
Here are today’s Top 5 tweets, with a complete recap of the latest edition of “Hill Tweet News” in the extended entry:
- Today’s #1 pork project is $951,500 for the Oregon Solar Highway. See @SenJohnMcCain for the rest of the list.
- RT @repblumenauer McCain wasn’t familiar with a Blackberry right? How’s he supposed to understand a solar highway.
- RT @clairecmc Voted yes on McCain amendment. Awkward when I disagree with party leadership but I think McCain is right.
- RT @donmanzullo I will continue to help lead coalition fighting latest US job-killing “patent reform” bill.
- @ChuckGrassley wants you to read this article about him: tinyurl.com/cosyyw. The lead: “You cannot escape the man.”
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Categories: Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oregon, Sen. John McCain, Energy, Budget, Economy, Earl Blumenauer, Intellectual Property, Claire McCaskill, Hill Tweet News, Don Manzullo, Chuck Grassley
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Federal income-tax returns are due to the Internal Revenue Service, making this week a politically opportune time for Congress to debate tax issues.
The House today debated a “taxpayer assistance” bill that would end the private collection of federal taxes, strengthen taxpayer protections from identity theft and tax fraud, stop federal contractors from using foreign subsidiaries to evade Social Security and other employment taxes, simplify the reporting of cellular telephone taxes, and expand tax help for low-income taxpayers.
Democrats who spoke in favor of the bill included Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Brad Ellsworth of Indiana and Rahm Emanuel of Illinois.
Categories: Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Oregon, Producer's Picks, Technology, Brad Ellsworth, Taxes, Earl Blumenauer, Crime, Rosa DeLauro, Rahm Emanuel
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Presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a fellow Illinois Democrat in Congress, based on his opposition to the Iraq war when that policy stance wasn’t necessarily a good political move.
“Barack Obama … is the only one [running for president] who really has the capacity to send a very different signal around the world, someone who can effectively go to capitals of both our allies and our adversaries and create a new new tone that creates the space for peace,” Schakowsky said in a video released by Obama’s campaign.
Categories: Illinois, Iraq, Barack Obama, Jan Schakowsky
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