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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (100330)	8/29/2011 12:10:39 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Kennedy voted for the Citizens United decision and to steal the election from Gore. Those were the two most important votes.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (100330)	8/29/2011 12:51:41 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Cantor wants to be Speaker very badly. House GOP announces jobs plan focused on cutting regs, taxes By Erik Wasson - 08/29/11 10:31 AM ET House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Monday laid out an ambitious anti-tax and regulations agenda for the fall. In a memo to rank-and-file Republicans, Cantor said the House will target 10 major regulations for elimination, and will also seek to enact one major tax cut for businesses. Republicans are offering the agenda as a contrast to President Obama’s jobs plan which is to be formally announced next week and is expected to include stimulus spending. Cantor’s proposals will face an uphill battle in becoming law, but could make their way into a package produced by the deficit “supercommittee” of 12 lawmakers charged with recommending $1.5 trillion in deficit-cuts by late November. Democrats want that package to focus on economic stimulus to create jobs. The more far-reaching tax proposal outlined in Cantor’s memo would allow small business owners to deduct 20 percent of their income from their taxes. This proposal is being offered as a contrast to the Obama administration effort to raise taxes on individuals making more than $200,000 per year. Many small businesses file taxes as individuals. The 10 regulations targeted in the memo were identified by committee chairmen as the most harmful to the economy. The majority are issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, but labor and healthcare rules are also targeted. A series of votes on repealing the regulations would begin in September and would be followed in late November or early December by a vote on separately legislation requiring that all major regulations get an up or down vote in Congress. The House will also vote on two bills changing the way regulatory impacts are analyzed, Cantor said in the memo. The first regulation to be targeted is born out of Boeing’s conflict with the National Labor Relations Board. Cantor said the House will consider legislation the week of Sept. 12 authored by Rep. Tim Scott (S.C.) that would forbid the NLRB from seeking to stop companies from moving work to new locations. NLRB is alleging Boeing moved work to South Carolina in order to punish unionized workers in Washington state. Later in September and in October, the House will consider rules meant to stop pollution that affect utilities, cement makers, coal companies and firms using boilers. In the winter, ozone rules and dust regulations will be considered before the House votes on legislation to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases in order to combat climate change. Cantor's jobs push also has a healthcare component aimed at ensuring that employers will still be able to offer employee coverage under Democrats’ healthcare reform law. The three committees of jurisdiction - Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce and Education and Workforce - are charged with putting together legislation to repeal “restrictions” in the law that could make it prohibitively expensive for employers and health plans to continue offering coverage. The legislation is scheduled to come up in the last two months of this year under Cantor's proposal. In the winter, the GOP plans to target a proposed NLRB regulation that the GOP says will give employers too little time to organize ahead of union elections. Cantor is also prioritizing two tax law changes. One would end a rule, set to go into effect in 2013, that requires the federal government to withhold 3 percent of payments to contractors as a way to improve tax compliance. The majority leader notes in his memo that the GOP expects Obama to submit pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea soon and for the Senate to vote on a House-passed patent reform bill that transforms the U.S. into a first-to-file system of patent approvals from a first-to-invent system. thehill.com