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"Well,I." which would change how benefit increases are indexed such that they would grow more slowly in most circumstances that is regarded as anathema to Obama's progressive baseAt the same time Obama's budget calls for many of the same proposals he's advocated in the past including higher taxes on wealthy Americans and some new spending on social programs His budget seeks $600 billion in new revenue mostly through eliminating deductions and loopholesThe administration also highlighted a new proposal to expand access to pre-kindergarten education by expanding aid to states (This program is funded in part by an increase to the tobacco tax)Whether Obama is able to win any support for this "compromise" proposal is still an open question though GOP leaders have said that the issue of taxes is settled following the New Year's Day deal allowing income taxes to go up on those earning over $450000 But Obama has made increased overtures to rank-and-file Republicans in hopes of building support for his budget On the same day he will formally introduce his budget next week Wednesday he'll dine with a group of Senate RepublicansThe official also said that the budget would seek another $1. former Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs, who was born in the African nation of Zambia,'"In addition,"We are not going to put our kids in schools with shields and send them to school in bulletproof backpacks and let the good guys shoot it out with the bad guys over our kids' heads, I'm getting carried away... ourselves can determine why the people at the Fish & Wildlife Dept. a high speed rail project in his home state of Virginia and said of this hypocrisy..."Virginia . will demonstrate that this historic investment in rail will create jobs reduce congestion spur economic growth and improve our environment" says a letter he signed with other Virginia members in October 2009 cribbing President Obamas own argument for the stimulus for his high rail projectCantor signed several such letters including an earlier one seeking rail funds a month after he went on national television attacking the Vegas project He also signed a letter in October 2009 seeking $60 million to build commercial ships some likely along Virginias coastline As for his bashing of HUD until last year he owned as much as $50000 in preferred stock in a real-estate company that receives federal housing assistance from the departmentThe stack of spending-request letters between these GOP members and federal agencies stands more than a foot tall and disheartens some of the activists who sent Republicans to Washington in the last electionJohn Boehner and Darrell Issa hypocrisy:Seizing on the Obama administrations decision to make a risky half-billion-dollar loan to a struggling solar firm named Solyndra Republicans like House Speaker and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman have recently accused Democrats of trying to pick winners and losers and questioned the need for the Energy Department loan-guarantee program at the center of the controversyBut both Boehner and Issa struck a different tone in requests for help from that program in their home states: Boehner for a uranium project in Ohio and Issa for an electric-car company in California "Awarding this opportunity to Aptera Motors will greatly assist a leading developer of electric vehicles in my district" Issa wrote in January 2010 just 18 months before he began investigating the Solyndra controversy An Issa spokesman has said the grant was never funded and that Aptera was on better financial footing than the now-defunct Solyndra Boehners office says the nuclear project had gone through a rigorous vetting process for funding unlike SolyndraRick Perry's Hypocrisy:Other letters show similar requests from Republican presidential candidates who have campaigned on reducing federal spending Gov Rick Perry once floated the idea that Texas could secede from the US to avoid Washingtons heavy hand and he has derided Obamas stimulus But two years ago Perry embraced $2 billion from the stimulus law for highway and airport projects writing a perfunctory July 2009 letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood identifying how he would use the money Perry was slow to spend the job-creating money as promised prompting LaHood to send a polite note that November urging the governor to "redouble your efforts to move projects through the process as quickly as the law and financial oversight will allow"Ron Paul's Hypocrisy:Fellow Texan also a government basher on the campaign trail has participated too Between December 2009 and last fall Paul wrote three letters to top Transportation Department officials seeking more than $150 million to finish a high-speed-rail project in Texas "This potential lack of sufficient funding will severely limit future projects and the full implementation of true high speed rail" he and 10 colleagues pleaded to Joseph Szabo head of the Federal Railroad Administration Paul told Newsweek that the money was already on the tableif federal money has already been allocated in a spending bill approved by Congress he sees it as his job is to secure some for his district: "Adding earmarks to a bill does not increase federal spending by even one penny"Michele Bachman's Hypocrisyresidential hopeful Rep the Minnesota Republican who formed the Tea Party caucus in Congress asked the Transportation Department in April for $750000 in federal money to boost passenger traffic at a small airport in St Cloud Minn (population: 65000) She closed her letter saying that the grant would be "sound spending of taxpayer dollars"Dan Vitter's Hypocrisy:Republican David Vitter has been one of many members who have consistently opposed stimulative measures Obama has tried to sell including the Recovery Act "Its not real job creation . We need to act on the economy but that doesnt mean typical Washington pork-barrel spending" he said in February 2009 at a rally against the stimulus on the Capitols stepsYet two months after railing against bloated spending the Louisiana senator appealed to Chu to fund an activated-carbon power plant in Red River Parish La "The project is expected to provide a significant economic impact in an area of Louisiana that is in desperate need of quality manufacturing jobs" Vitter wrote He forecast that the project would create 70 to 80 full-time manufacturing jobs once it was completed A spokesman for Vitter says the senator opposed the Recovery Act but is open to other spending programs that benefit LouisianansRep Marlin Stutzman Hypocrisy:Rep Marlin Stutzman a junior Republican from Indiana who came to Washington in 2010 to limit government lamented this year that "the president believes that investing is spending more taxpayer dollars It is time to invest in the nations future by controlling spending"But in 2010 the same year he entered Congress Stutzman collected $4061 in farm payments from the Department of Agriculture Since 1997 his family has received $183431 to grow corn soybeans and wheat "I dont deny it at all" Stutzman told Newsweek noting that hes working to abolish the direct-payment system "But I cant compete as a producer without [the subsidies]"Tea Party icon Allen West Hypocrisy:Tea Party icon Allen West of Florida has gotten into "lettermarking" a Washington term to describe efforts to seek money for pet projects Though hes just 10 months in office the House freshman has already written at least four letters seeking federal largesse for his district including one asking to fund a pedestrian pathway in Riviera Beach Fla Twice in the letter West vows the project "will create better access to jobs and services"West offered a different take the next day during a speech to a local Chamber of Commerce chapter that protesters came to picket: "The people outside dont understand" he told the business leaders "Government does not create jobs" When asked about the discrepancy Angela Sachitano a spokesman for West said the congressman has been "consistent" in his support of some spendingso long as its done fairly and benefits his district
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