Schedule today: Just small stuff

[TayTay]

I saw JK on the local news last night. He did a speech at Children's Hospital in Boston. He was talking about his "Kid's Come First" campaign and there was local footage on Channel 5. (www.theboston.channel.com)

Finance committee is meeting today. This is from the www.capitolhearings.com web site:

2:15 p.m.
Finance
To hold hearings to examine revenue proposals in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2006.

That's all. Not on C-Span that I can see, but the Capitolhearings site does have audio.

Finance Committee web site is here: http://www.senate.gov/~finance/sitepages/2001HearingF.htm/subcommittees.htm

[TayTay]

1. Quote on budget submitted yesterday

Sen. John Kerry, Bush's defeated Democratic presidential
opponent, said Bush had reached ``new lows of fiscal
irresponsibility'' by proposing a spending plan that ``takes cops
off the street, hurts veterans and punishes school children while
saddling future generations with record budget deficits and
mountains of debt.''

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[ginnyinWI]

2. the man has a way with words--

Good for him--comment on every development, nip at the Bush administration's heels! Keep everyone aware that you are not going away. Make Bush rue the day he ever heard of you!

I caught Durbin on the Senate floor this morning, punching holes in the whole idea that there is a crisis in "frivilous lawsuits". The "hell holes of class action lawsuits" Bush talks about are nothing of the kind: the worst areas only have one or two suits filed per year! The whole thing is another bogus crisis designed to make it harder to sue a corporation.

[elshiva]

14. Right on!

Even better than Harry Reid saying the budget is "not honest or fair."

[whometense]

3. Watching the meeting now,

and it's mind-blowing.

Did you know the budget deficit is narrowing as we speak?

Crooks and liars, crooks and liars.

[whometense]

4. John Snow

and Max Baucus are sniping at each other. Go Max.

[TayTay]

5. Are you watching C-Span

or listening to the hearings?

[whometense]

6. The hearings.

Baucus is being a real hardass.

[TayTay]

7. I just put that on

and I leave at 3:50. So far, Baucus is doing very well.

I wish I could follow the floor debate too on the destroying the right of Americans to sue bill.

[whometense]

8. Yeah.

There's just too much evildoing to keep track of it all.

[whometense]

9. ooooh...

Rockefeller: "They say, 'If you disagree, you're being political.'"

[TayTay]

10. Only they get to disagree

ANd SSI destruction just scares the hell out of the Rethugs.

This is a good one for Dems.

[whometense]

11. The dems so far

seem loaded for bear. VERY well prepared for this discussion.

[whometense]

12. Snow is so full of shit

Bingamen just nailed him on the absence of addressing the alternative minimum tax in the budget.

[TayTay]

13. And Lincoln

nailed them on the time table for payouts on SSI and when they run out. She was great!