President Bush told Congress he wants an economic stimulus bill on his desk by Christmas.
On Tuesday, Daschle wrote Bush, proposing to bring a scaled-back economic stimulus bill to the Senate floor.
Democrats made it clear that they plan to put their stamp on the massive economic stimulus bill.
In the interim, financial regulatory reform became something of a sideshow to the economic stimulus bill and health care overhaul.
That's why states are eagerly awaiting passage of the economic stimulus bill.
"So it's pretty urgent that the economic stimulus bill not only address the job situation, but address health insurance coverage too, " she says.
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The earth-moving equipment kicked in only minutes after President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill his administration pushed through Congress 11 months ago.
The good news, as the Committee will also establish, is that billions of dollars have been allocated in the economic stimulus bill for upgrading the grid.
With Democrats and Republicans squabbling over an economic stimulus bill, the president clearly wanted to send a message to lawmakers that they need to work together.
The stem cell signing - like the economic stimulus bill - is an example of the two different tracks that Obama and Republicans are currently on.
The economic stimulus bill was approved by Congress last week.
Congress is on the verge of increasing funding for food stamps as part of the economic stimulus bill, because of the steep rise in the number of Americans applying for the aid.
Taylor noted that he was still reviewing the plan, but he said he was troubled by the additional spending for many government programs on top of the funding agencies received in the economic stimulus bill.
On the economic front, Bush made a pitch for legislation designating Lower Manhattan as a "liberty zone" as part of an economic stimulus bill, which he still hopes to see passed despite a Senate setback.
The payroll tax holiday would replace a provision in the House-passed economic stimulus bill to send rebate checks to those who did not receive them this summer -- those who do not make enough to pay income tax but are still subject to payroll taxes.
That means by the time either Barack Obama or John McCain moves into the White House, most of the government's bailout actions will be in place, the executive branch will have unprecedented authority to deal with the financial problem, and Congress will likely send the president another economic stimulus bill to sign.
Gambling supporters managed to get a tax break for slot machines included in a post-Sept. 11 economic-stimulus bill.
For their part, administration officials complain that businesses either begged or cheered for the financial bailouts started under President George W. Bush, as well as the for the Obama team's economic-stimulus bill and auto-company rescue, and also pleaded for health-care reform but then left the administration twisting in the wind once those measures became controversial.
"I don't want to get into a protracted debate about economic stimulus simply because the bill is going nowhere, " Daschle said of the House legislation.
Stewart asked Obama supporters to host economic recovery house meetings to talk about the stimulus bill.
Meanwhile, economic murkiness also continues in the U.S., as Washington squabbles over whether to pass the Obama jobs bill, whether to provide more economic stimulus, whether to hike taxes on the wealthy, whether to implement stiffer regulations on the financial industry, and so on.
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Apparently, Mr. Obama failed to notice that President Bill Clinton saw his strongest period of economic growth only after his health-care takeover and stimulus bills were defeated, welfare rolls were pared, the capital gains tax was cut, and the budget was balanced.
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