Mn - Please hurry up and seat the properly elected Senator Al Franken; people may actually die.

[TheBigotBasher]

With Franken seated that is one less Rethug needed. It means repairing the iinfrastructure, healthcare and safer railways are within reach again

This is what him not being seated yet means and Republicans know it



Partially cut:

• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)

• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)

• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)

• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)

• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)

Fully eliminated

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters

• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization
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• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service

• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation

• $100 million for distance learning

• $98 million for school nutrition

• $50 million for aquaculture

• $2 billion for broadband

• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology

• $50 million for detention trustee

• $25 million for Marshalls Construction

• $300 million for federal prisons

• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program

• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program

• $10 million state and local law enforcement

• $50 million for NASA

• $50 million for aeronautics

• $50 million for exploration

• $50 million for Cross Agency Support

• $200 million for National Science Foundation

• $100 million for science

• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees

• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration

• $89 million General Services Administration operations

• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security

• $200 million Transportation Security Administration

• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use

• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $20 million for working capital fund

• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement

• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management

• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants

• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

• $16 billion for school construction

• $3.5 billion for higher education construction

• $1.25 billion for project based rental

• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization

• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)

[EraOfResponsibility]

1. yep

they're delaying Franken's seat on purpose.

[TheBigotBasher]

2. I forgot to add

a large chunk of that money has been added back for defence spending. Saving lives id pork, new ways to kill people is not !!!!

[Fire1]

3. Oh, haven't you heard? This will only create 'work,' not jobs,

Change takes time, maybe two or three years, perhaps. I wonder how many will be dead by then?

[opihimoimoi]

4. Peeps are ALREADY dying....here and there...people are dying.

[TheBigotBasher]

5. Who is funding Coleman?

Not bloody him that is for sure.

[starroute]

6. Persons unknown channeling it through the Republican National Lawyers Assn.

At least that's what the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party is charging. And I can believe it -- especially since Coleman's lawyer is Ben Ginsburg, who formerly played a major role in the 2000 Florida recount, in which the RNLA was also deeply involved.

Coleman is also tangled up with the DCI Group/FLS Direct (which has its own ties to Ginsburg, by way of his role in 2004 with the Swift Boat Veterans and Progress for America -- and which is also tight with Karl Rove) and through them to the Chamber of Commerce. In fact, he's probably the most "connected" of this year's Senate candidates in that sense. So there's no lack of interested parties who could be plowing money into the litigation.

[TheBigotBasher]

8. So I remember

http://www.pattonboggs.com/bginsberg/


Angel Heart


They are not going to give up are they?

[Raine]

7. This is RIDICULOUS

Franken needs to get in there immediately! :mad:

[nichomachus]

9. Simple -- no money for Minnesota until they seat Franken. Period.

And no new senators seated until the Franken issue is resolved.

[TheBigotBasher]

10. We should not blame Minnesota for the actions of Coleman

however he will continue this until the next round of elections if he can. As is pointed out he also has an endless stream of money.

On the positive side - I guess there is no recession for election lawyers.

[nichomachus]

11. I'm not blaming Minnesota -- just creating an incentive for people to act

Just like when your boss doesn't pay you for not showing up at work -- he's not blaming you, just trying to create an incentive to show up.

[MadHound]

12. Oh please, this doesn't boil down to one single Senator

What, can't Reid, Pelosi, Obama and other Democratic leaders play hard ball? Hell, back when the 'Pugs were in this position they managed to ram through their agenda without compromise. How did they do this? Oh, yeah, they were street fighters, ready to fight dirty and kneecap people if need be to get their way. Hell, back in the good ol' days, leaders like LBJ knew how to do this also. But somewhere between now and then the Democrats have lost either their taste or talent for street fighting, and now are reduced to compromising away all their best programs to get a modicum passed. Fucking pathetic.