The Obama backed $838 billion dollar stimulus bill is headed to the Senate for a final vote Wednesday, February 10, 2009 after advancing forward after a procedural hurdle on Monday. Though many of the opposition of the plan are Republican, its believed that President Obama’s stimulus package should pass on the Senate floor come Wednesday. Democrats have already promised to deliver it to President Obama for further authorization in a few days if it does in fact pass. The Senate casted it a 61-36 vote on Monday, just only one vote needed to pass onto the last stages of voting on Tuesday, 36 of which were all Republican.
Though the trimmed estimate of the total stimulus package Friday was $827 billion, Congressional Offices issued it to be around $838 billion dollars.
With one of the biggest down turns of the country resting squarely on the back of the Senate and President Barack Obama, it will lay the way for further negotiations on new emergency legislation which is urgently needed to take on the challenges of stopping things before they get worse. Though bipartisanship may have not shown on the way of things Monday, if the stimulus plan helps the economy in a short time, Republicans will be sure to praise the efforts of Barack Obama.
Though the hope for joint support in the Senate didn’t show, but the stimulus package is favored to pass cleanly on Tuesday. President Barack Obama made his first outreach of Americans on Monday visiting Elkhart, Indiana to push the bill over with one of the many hard hit areas of the country. Elk Hart, Indiana has reported a 15 percent+ figure on unemployment rate since the economy started to tank. Most of which the job loss of the Midwest region is blamed to be on big vehicle makers, such as Ford or General Motors. With national unemployment at 7.6 percent and over 3 million American jobs gone, Obama is acting quickly upon reversing the down turn of the nation as a whole, creating jobs repair the nation’s highways, bridges, buildings, and historical sites.
“Doing nothing is not an option” said the President in the town hall meeting, warranting favoritism from the crowd with the chosen choice of words. Even Senator Edward Kennedy returned to the Capital since his seizure on Inauguration Day to join Democrats and support the legislation.
Though some disagree of the timeless strategy of reaching out directly to the people, but it’s respected for all Presidents to communicate with the people of the on goings in office, which Obama has capitalized on thus far.
