Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs

[Peacetrain]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100811/ap_on_bi_ge/us_jobs_bill


WASHINGTON – Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs. President Barack Obama immediately signed it into law.

Lawmakers streamed back to Washington for a one-day session as Democrats declared a need to act before children return to classrooms minus teachers laid off because of budgetary crises in states that have been hard-hit by the recession.

Republicans saw it differently, calling the bill a giveaway to teachers' unions and an example of wasteful Washington spending that voters will punish the Democrats for in this fall's elections. The legislation was approved mainly along party lines by a vote of 247-161.

[ibegurpard]

1. is he taking the money from the earmarks for his Race to the Top

program to replace public schools with charter schools?
or is it coming from food stamps?

[Peacetrain]

2. What he has had to deal with is the blasted unfunded mandates put in

by Bush after sticking the knife in Kennedys back on the education bill.

[ibegurpard]

4. and his threat to veto legislation that would have taken money from Arne's plan?

[Peacetrain]

6. Learn to discern... seriously ..

[firedupdem]

3. K&R Excellent News n/t

[Peacetrain]

5. Very good news...

[NYC_SKP]

7. kick (nt)

[Peacetrain]

8. Along party lines as usual..

:hi:

[sandnsea]

9. Not good enough

I shit you not...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8920645

[Peacetrain]

10. good grief

[stray cat]

11. Throw the bum out and elect the GOP who loves teachers!