Call right now! Mass Transit, State aid, Education to be cut by Nelson / Collins

[liskddksil]

I’ve just obtained an internal Senate committee memo detailing the latest cuts being eyed by the gang of Senators being led by Dem Ben Nelson and GOPer Susan Collins. Here is what’s being eyed in the bill right now:

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Total Reductions: $80 billion
Eliminations:

Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western Area Power Administration, CDC, Food Stamps

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Reductions:

Public Transit $3.4 billion, School Construction $60 billion

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Increases:

Defense operations and procurement, STAG Grants, Brownfields, Additional transportation funding

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/stimulus-package/latest-cuts-to-the-stim-package-head-start-child-nutrition-food-stamps-public-transit/
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Call your senator to express your disapproval of these proposals.

[liskddksil]

1. Senators to target

Confirmed (16)
Who are working on this proposal

Democratic Caucus (11)
Evan Bayh (IN)
Michael Bennett (CO)
Kent Conrad (ND)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Joe Lieberman (CT)
Clarie McCaskill (MO)
Ben Nelson (NE)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Mark Warner (VA)
Jim Webb (VA)
Mark Udall (CO)

Republican Caucus (5)
Susan Collins (ME)
Mel Martinez (FL)
Olympia Snowe (ME)
Arlen Specter (PA)
George Voinovich (OH)

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11390

[wildflower]

2. Eliminating Head Start, Firefighters, Food Stamps, Violence Against Women...??

Thanks for letting us know about this. K&R.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. one down, one to go.

Quoted from the memo, staffer sounded surprised

[liskddksil]

4. what state are you?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Cali, I HATE calling Feinstein's office by the way

done with calling them

There are days...

I DEMANDED they just pass this already... since the RNC did the exact same thing with the New Deal

These people don't learn from history

[liskddksil]

6. I've tried thee times to get through to Schumer

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I've called him on other issues

as well as the finance committee

Not fun, but I take my job as citizen seriously

[liskddksil]

8. finally got through

the staffer seemed to know what I was talking about and said he would pass it on.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. GOOD, if they hear from us they may get a clue

we need this to pass, PERIOD

[liskddksil]

10. Kick- Let Your Senators know that you want tax cuts removed not necessary spending