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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Mar 04, 2010 04:21pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | LISA LERER |
| News Date | Thursday, March 4, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The House narrowly passed a $15 billion jobs bill on Thursday, but only after Democrats beat back surprisingly vocal opposition from their conservative and liberal flanks.
The bill, which has a series of tax credits aimed at job creation, passed 217-201, narrowly avoiding an embarrssing loss for Democrats on a top electoral priority. Because the House made a small change to the bill, it still has to make one brief stop in the Senate before it heads to the president’s desk to be signed into law.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised that the bill would be the first of several proposals designed to boost job growth.
“It will be one in a series of other jobs bills that will come forward," she said on Thursday.
Congressional Black Caucus members opposed the legislation, which they slammed as too small to have any significant impact on job creation in already struggling areas. |
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