{"id":376557,"date":"2010-03-01T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77954"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:30:36","slug":"grassley-rejects-baucus-jobs-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/376557","title":{"rendered":"Grassley Rejects Baucus Jobs Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, came together in rare bipartisan fashion <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/02\/max-baucus-charles-grassley-un.html\" >to propose<\/a> an $85 billion bill designed to tackle the nation&#8217;s employment crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect the same cooperation surrounding the latest jobs proposal.<span id=\"more-77954\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just moments after Baucus took to the Senate floor this afternoon to outline the Democrats&#8217; latest stimulus bill, Grassley blasted the proposal for being too large and not targeted enough.  &#8220;Don&#8217;t let this package be mislabeled as the Baucus-Grassley package,&#8221; he said, adding that it &#8220;dramatically differs in cost, balance &#8230; and intent&#8221; from the original bill. Grassley blamed Democratic leaders &#8212; i.e., Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) &#8212; for &#8220;arbitrarily&#8221;\u00a0scrapping the original proposal and replacing it &#8220;with a bill that skews toward their liberal wing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Democratic leaders will be relying again on Scott Brown &amp; Co. if they want to get this thing through the upper chamber, as they hope to do this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, came together in rare bipartisan fashion to propose an $85 billion bill designed to tackle the nation&#8217;s employment crisis. Don&#8217;t expect the same cooperation surrounding the latest jobs proposal. Just moments after Baucus took to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}