Estos democratas si que son unas mulas, primero Obama dijo que su estimulo2 iba a ser pagado con los impuestos a lo que ganaban mas de $250,000, la semana pasada dijeron que no, que solo se iba a pagar con los impuestos a los que ganaban mas de un millon de dolares, ahora sale esta noticia de que el plan de Obama lo van a separar en pedazos. Que locura!!!
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Los democratas estan considerando separar el plan de Obama en pedazos, ya que se espera que la propuesta sea derrotada en el voto del Martes.
No hay decision final todavia acerca de cuando se procedera con este cambio o que aspectos de la ley se usaran. Probablemente en las proximas semanas.
Democrats Mull Breaking Up Jobs Plan
By COREY BOLES
At a news conference Thursday, President Obama urged Congress to pass his proposed jobs will and addressed the growing 'Occupy Wall Street' protests, which are spreading across the country. Laura Meckler has details on The News Hub.
.WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats are mulling breaking President Barack Obama's job-creation program into pieces and moving forward with individual components of the plan following what is expected to be a defeat of the entire package in a vote on Tuesday, aides said.
No final decisions have been made on the timing of any such move, nor on what aspects of the plan would be brought forward as individual pieces of legislation, the aides cautioned. One aide said Democratic leaders may decide to hold more than one vote on the plan in the coming weeks to further emphasize Republicans' opposition to it.
The strategy was discussed at a meeting at the White House between the president and Senate Democratic leaders on Friday. Democrats are planning to meet with the party's Senate lawmakers on Wednesday where aides said the idea would be discussed further.
Mr. Obama lent public support to the strategy at a news conference last week, calling on lawmakers to move forward with pieces of his plan given their reluctance to pass the entire package.
The Senate is to vote on the entire $450 billion legislation on Tuesday evening after lawmakers return to Washington. But as Democrats would need at least seven Republicans to support them in the procedural vote, the legislation is almost certain to be defeated. Not even the party's entire 53 members favor the bill, although they may all vote to allow debate to formally begin on Tuesday in a show of party unity.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Friday the plan would increase federal budget deficits by $6 billion over the next decade.
The bulk of the cost of the legislation would be offset by the introduction of a 5.6% tax increase on people who earn more than $1 million a year.
Congress is also set to take up the three outstanding free trade pacts with Colombia, Panama and South Korea this week, followed by consideration of a measure to fund several government departments in fiscal 2012.
This likely would delay any consideration of individual aspects of the jobs plan until the end of the month after lawmakers return from a week-long recess.
The federal government's fiscal year began on Oct. 1, and the government is being funded by a temporary measure that expires Nov. 18. Republicans have made it clear they oppose the president's plan in its entirety, but a Senate GOP leadership aide said there are potentially aspects of it that they could support if they were brought forward on an individual basis.
These could include a tax-break for business owners that hire veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and an overhaul of the federal jobless benefits program that could tie future benefits to on-the-job retraining.
In the House, Republican leaders have said they will hold a vote on legislation permanently delaying the collection of a 3% withholding from government contractors by the Internal Revenue Service. The president called for a one-year deferral of the collection in his plan.
House GOP leaders also intend to bring forward a package of measures aimed at helping small businesses get better access to capital.
There is no plan to hold an up or down vote on the president's entire plan in the House.
Write to Corey Boles at
corey.boles@dowjones.com