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What is and What is Not Including in the New Jobs Bill

The measure includes funds for:

· Medicaid programs(approximately $23 billion to the States)

· Amtrak construction

· school renovation

· job training

· part-time college jobs

· summer employment for low-income teenagers

· workers in national parks and forests

· very poor people with as little as no income to claim a $1,000-per-child tax credit 

· federal surface transportation programs

 This measure does include (as promised by President Obama) funds to give:

· Social Security recipients $250 payments,

·  tax credits for small businesses that create jobs

· tax credits to people who make their homes more energy efficient

 

Information from the AP

The U.S. House of Representatives Approves a "Stimulus Bill for Jobs and State/Local Governments"

(This bill provides $50 billion to public works projects and $50 billion for cash-strapped state and local governments.)

 2847   RECORDED VOTE   16-Dec-2009   7:04 PM
  QUESTION:  On Concurring in Senate Amendment with an Amendment
  BILL TITLE: Making Appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Democratic	217	38		3
Republican		174		3
Independent
TOTALS	217	212		6

---- AYES 217 ---

Abercrombie Ackerman Altmire Andrews Baca Baird Baldwin Barrow Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boccieri Boswell Boucher Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chandler Chu Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Dahlkemper Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Edwards (MD) Ellison Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Frank (MA) Fudge Garamendi Giffords Gonzalez Gordon (TN) Grayson Green, Al

Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hall (NY) Halvorson Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Heinrich Higgins Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kilroy Kissell Klein (FL) Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maffei Maloney Markey (MA) Marshall Massa Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McIntyre McMahon McNerney Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy (NY) Nadler (NY) Napolitano Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey

Olver Ortiz Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perriello Pingree (ME) Polis (CO) Price (NC) Rahall Rangel Reyes Richardson Rodriguez Ross Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schauer Schiff Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Shuler Sires Skelton Slaughter Snyder Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Tanner Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Titus Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch Wexler Wilson (OH) Woolsey Wu Yarmuth

---- NOES 212 ---

Aderholt Adler (NJ) Akin Alexander Arcuri Austria Bachmann Bachus Barrett (SC) Bartlett Barton (TX) Bean Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boren Boustany Boyd Brady (TX) Bright Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Cao Capito Carter Cassidy Castle Chaffetz Childers Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Connolly (VA) Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Deal (GA) Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Donnelly (IN) Dreier Driehaus Duncan Edwards (TX) Ehlers Ellsworth Emerson Fallin Flake Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Foster

Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Granger Graves Griffith Guthrie Hall (TX) Harper Hastings (WA) Heller Hensarling Herger Herseth Sandlin Hill Himes Hodes Hoekstra Hunter Inglis Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan (OH) Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kirkpatrick (AZ) Kline (MN) Kosmas Kratovil Lamborn Lance Latham LaTourette Latta Lee (NY) Lewis (CA) LoBiondo Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Markey (CO) Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McKeon McMorris Rodgers Melancon Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Minnick

Mitchell Moran (KS) Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Tim Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Nye Olson Paul Paulsen Pence Peters Peterson Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pomeroy Posey Price (GA) Putnam Quigley Rehberg Reichert Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ryan (WI) Scalise Schmidt Schock Schrader Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Souder Space Stearns Sullivan Taylor Teague Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Turner Upton Walden Wamp Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Young (AK)

---- NOT VOTING 6 ---

Johnson, E. B. Linder

Murtha Radanovich

Speier Young (FL)

Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY) Introduces Major New Legislation to Move TARP Funds From Wall Street to Main Street

Congressman John Yarmuth

Representing Kentucky’s 3^rd Congressional District

PRESS RELEASE  

   
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 14, 2009   

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Trey Pollard 202.225.5401   

The “Give Main Street Credit Act” Will Provide $20 Billion in Low-Interest, Direct Loans to American Small Businesses

(Washington, DC) Today, Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) announced the introduction of the Give Credit to Main Street Act – new legislation that would require $20 billion in low-interest loans be made available to small businesses throughout the nation. Using money previously set aside for Wall Street financial institutions and big banks via the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the bill redirects funds to the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide direct lending to small companies.

“Small businesses drive economic growth and employ 50 percent of our nation’s workforce. But, even with the assistance of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, big Wall Street banks are not lending,” said Congressman Yarmuth. “We need to put Main Street ahead of Wall Street – and the bill I have introduced will give small businesses loans at the same low rate the big banks enjoy, ensuring they have the resources they need to grow and create jobs.”

The introduction of Congressman Yarmuth’s legislation coincides with President Obama’s meeting today with CEOs from some of the nation’s largest banking interests, in which the President will encourage the banking industry to unfreeze lending to small businesses.

Of the 22 banks that received the most TARP funding, three provide no small business loans at all. Over the past six months, total small business lending by these 22 banks dropped by more than $10.5 billion while SBA loan guarantees are projected to drop by $10 billion this year.

The Give Credit to Main Street Act would make loans available directly to small businesses through the Small Business Administration. Loans would be made with interest accumulating at the federal funds rate, which currently stands at 0.25 percent, with interest-only payments required for the first two years.

 

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Final Tally of the House Vote on H.R. 4213: Tax Extenders Act of 2009

    (Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)
  H R 4213   RECORDED VOTE   9-Dec-2009   3:17 PM
  QUESTION:  On Passage
  BILL TITLE: Tax Extenders Act of 2009

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Democratic	239	10		8
Republican	2	171		4
Independent
TOTALS	241	181		12

---- AYES 241 ---

Abercrombie Ackerman Adler (NJ) Altmire Andrews Arcuri Baca Baird Barrow Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boccieri Boren Boswell Boucher Boyd Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Bright Brown, Corrine Butterfield Cao Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chandler Childers Chu Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Dahlkemper Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly (IN) Doyle Driehaus Edwards (MD) Edwards (TX) Ellison Ellsworth Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Foster Frank (MA) Garamendi Giffords Gonzalez

Gordon (TN) Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Griffith Grijalva Gutierrez Hall (NY) Halvorson Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Heinrich Herseth Sandlin Higgins Hill Hinojosa Hirono Hodes Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Jones Kagen Kanjorski Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kilroy Kind Kirkpatrick (AZ) Kissell Kosmas Kratovil Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maloney Markey (CO) Markey (MA) Marshall Massa Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McIntyre McMahon McNerney Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Minnick Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Murphy (CT) Murphy (NY) Murphy, Patrick Nadler (NY)

Napolitano Neal (MA) Nye Oberstar Obey Olver Ortiz Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Perlmutter Perriello Peters Peterson Pingree (ME) Pomeroy Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reyes Richardson Rodriguez Ross Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sarbanes Schakowsky Schauer Schiff Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Shuler Sires Skelton Slaughter Snyder Space Speier Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Tanner Teague Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Titus Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch Wilson (OH) Woolsey Wu Yarmuth

---- NOES 181 ---

Aderholt Akin Alexander Austria Bachmann Bachus Bartlett Barton (TX) Bean Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boustany Brady (TX) Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Capito Cassidy Castle Chaffetz Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Deal (GA) Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dreier Duncan Ehlers Emerson Fallin Flake Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ)

Gerlach Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Graves Guthrie Hall (TX) Harper Hastings (WA) Heller Hensarling Herger Himes Hoekstra Hunter Inglis Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jordan (OH) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Klein (FL) Kline (MN) Lamborn Lance Latham LaTourette Latta Lee (NY) Lewis (CA) Linder LoBiondo Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Maffei Manzullo Marchant McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McKeon McMorris Rodgers Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Mitchell Moran (KS) Murphy, Tim Myrick Neugebauer Nunes

Olson Paul Paulsen Pence Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Polis (CO) Posey Price (GA) Putnam Rehberg Reichert Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ryan (WI) Scalise Schmidt Schock Schrader Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Souder Stearns Sullivan Taylor Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Turner Upton Walden Wamp Westmoreland Wexler Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Young (AK) Young (FL)

---- NOT VOTING 12 ---

Baldwin Barrett (SC) Carter Fudge

Granger Hinchey Kaptur Lewis (GA)

Moran (VA) Murtha Radanovich Sanchez, Loretta