Politics

Jobs Bill on the Senate Backburner

By Sunlight Foundation & Participatory Politics Foundation

Sometime after finishing up health care reform, Senate Democrat will shift their focus to jobs.

An aide to Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Democrats are looking at proposals in those four main areas. But the aide said that senators have yet to finalize their specific proposals. […]

They are considering new transit and highway spending and efforts to help stave off public employee layoffs, as well as a new tax credit for businesses hiring new workers and a program providing incentives for homeowners to retrofit their homes, according to a source off Capitol Hill.

Full post as published by Open Congress on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).