JK on the floor now talking about Small Business. n/t

[ginnyinWI]

[TayTay]

1. We crossed

I love it. The Admin allowed 2 Bil of contracts to go to big corporation that were meant for small business.

[whometense]

2. Thanks!!!!!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[TayTay]

4. Addressing the Health Care and SB probs

Almost 2/3rds of the nations uninsured are small business owners.

[whometense]

5. Love that line

about how there isn't a single company in the country that didn't start as a small business.

[Pirate Smile]

7. Do you know when their will be any more Finance Committee Hearings

on Social Security?

[TayTay]

8. Tomorrow

Lie To Me, Part 2.

Building Assets for Low-Income Families

April 28 , 2005, at 10:30 a.m. in 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Member Statements:
Charles Grassley, IA
Max Baucus, MT

Witness Statements:

Panel I

Ms. Michelle Simmons, Women's Opportunity Resource Center (WORC) account holder, Norristown, PA

Ms. Dorothy Beale, Women's Opportunity Resource Center (WORC) account holder, Philadelphia, PA

Mr. Chuck Palmer, President of Institue for Social and Economic Development (ISED), Des Moines, IA

Dr. Victoria Gonzales-Rubio, Principal of Delmar Harvard Elementary School, St. Louis, MO

Mr. Ric Edelman, Edelman Financial Services, Inc., Fairfax, VA

Mr. Mark Ernst, Chairman - President and Chief Executive Officer of H&R Block, Kansas City, MO

Dr. Michael Sherraden, Author of Assets and the Poor, Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

Dr. Trina Williams Shanks, Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Mr. Fred Goldberg, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, and former Commissioner of the IRS under President George H.W. Bush, Washington, DC

Mr. Ray Boshara, Director, Asset-Building Program, New America Foundation, Washington, DC

Mr. David John, Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC

Mr. J. Mark Iwry, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, Washington, DC

I don't know if C-Span will cover it live, but the Committee has it's own web feed you can access here: http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/hearings.htm

Geez, with that many people scheduled to testify, questioning will be limited. Or they might go on all day. The other SSI hearing scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until I know not when.

[whometense]

3. He's like a bulldog

with the healthcare message. LOVE it!!!! Don't let go, John.

[TayTay]

6. What he said:

"The Administration loves to claim the pro business mantle. But if they were really candid with the American people they would clarify that most of that support, as we see in the Energy Bill or the Tax Bill means big business, not small business. And small business defintely needs assistance in regards to health care."

[ginnyinWI]

9. I've been reading "Call to Service"

He wrote that in 2003, or at least it was published then. And he's still talking about those same issues. He's consistently focused on the same themes, the same problems. He's steady and consistent. I could quote passages of that book, and it would sound like today. He hasn't had to change his positions because he's right.

[LittleClarkie]

13. Humf. Some flip flopper he turned out to be

And they said he didn't have a consistent message. Well, pfffft to them.

[Pirate Smile]

10. Hmmm. Bully Boy is giving a speech at the SBA now.

Kerry always likes to give a contrast to whatever crap Bush is spewing. Good M.O.

[TayTay]

11. I agree. This has been handled perfectly.

I know that not many folks are paying attention to Floor speeches, but still, this getting the Dems point of view on the issues into the news. I saw Kerry quoted as the counter-point on a story at least 5 times. (Times how many papers took the story, this is a lot.)

[ginnyinWI]

12. yeah I think he is coodinating with * statements!

He did it when * made a statement for Bolton, and lots of other time. Shadow President!

[LittleClarkie]

14. It's like a speech a day

or does it just seem like that to me.

[TayTay]

15. It is a speech a day.

At this rate, I'm going into withdrawal next week. (Off week for Congress.)

Tomorrow the Idiot King is having a press conference (his first without Gannon.) Wonder what Kerry will do for that.

Also, the Second FinComm Social Security Hearing is tomorrow. Lie To Me, The Sequel has a list of witnesses as long as your arm. Tomorrow's List of 'Lies Rethuglicans are trying to pass off as good for America' will be about the poor. This could be one for the ages.

Rethuglicans get a bunch of smart people together, drug them, and make them tell Rethug lies about how taking away social security from poor people really helps them (and it's what Jesus wants too! Really. Jesus preached many many sermons about how the poor are all lazy and stupid and leeches on the prosperous and we should cut them off at the knees. Right? After all, Jesus was a supply-sider and he was against welfare frauds and for the Holy Free Market, right?)

[politicasista]

16. Smirky was so drunk sounding last night.

His speech was slurred and his hair was a gray hot mess. It's scary.