House approved $10 billion in funding for education jobs

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Just posted on the NEA's facebook page:

"You did it! The House this evening approved $10 billion in funding for education jobs. Thanks to all of you who called and e-mailed on behalf of this bill. Stay tuned, as we will be providing updates on what we need to do to ensure this funding becomes law and our schools get the relief they need! Thanks again for your support!"

http://www.facebook.com/NEA.ORG

I still can't find more information about this but I'll continue to search.

[SocialistLez]

1. Now we have to hold our breath and see if the Senate will pass it too. NT

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2. Exactly...

and Obama has threatened to veto it because it supposedly diverts funding from RttT to this.

[SocialistLez]

3. Bleh. yet another reason for me to NOT like Obama.

:puke: :puke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Was it still attached to war funding?

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5. Yep - I finally found something more

House-OK'd war funding bill faces Senate trouble

WASHINGTON – Despite pessimism that the war in Afghanistan is turning out to be a quagmire, Democrats controlling the House muscled through a plan Thursday to finance President Barack Obama's troop surge, but only after sweetening the measure with last-ditch moves to salvage their faltering jobs agenda.

Long delayed, the approximately $80 billion bill was passed amid building pressure on Democrats to act before their weeklong Fourth of July break begins. But the Senate approved a significantly slimmer measure in May and it'll take additional weeks to reconcile the differences between the two battling chambers.

The crucial vote to advance the measure under unusually convoluted floor rules came on a 215-210 tally to bring up the nearly $60 billion Senate-passed measure for debate. Democrats added more than $20 billion for domestic programs late Thursday, including $10 billion in grants to school districts to avoid teacher layoffs, $5 billion for Pell Grants to low-income college students and $700 million to improve security along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The new Democratic spending, approved by a 239-182 vote, includes a $10 billion "education jobs fund" that's less than half of a $23 billion plan unveiled this spring. Amid growing violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, there's also $700 million in new money to hire more border patrol agents and pay for other border security initiatives, though $200 million in previously appropriated money for a border fence, popular with Republicans, would be rescinded.

More:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100702/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_war_funding_11

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Bastards

We're supposed to be happy now?!

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7. Yep.