Image not recoveredAbeLincoln.jpgThe following is a roundup of political activity going on in Washington and across the nation. It’s courtesy of Scott Wilk, Community Organizer, and Anchor Consulting group. The Beacon will be posting these daily as they become available.
No Political Roundup will not publish on Monday, in observance of Labor Day.
In the House:
- The House is in recess until September 8th.
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that a healthcare reform bill “without a strong public option will not pass the House”
In the Senate:
- The Senate is in recess until September 8th.
- Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) are emerging as possible consensus builders for a final version of health care reform legislation from the Senate.
Other News
- In a speech at the Brookings Institution yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden asserted “that the stimulus helped avert what some had feared would be a second Depression.” (NYT)
- “President Obama’s plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse the children from listening.” (NYT)
- As part of a potential health care compromise, the White House is considering a “trigger,” whereby “private insurance companies would be told to meet benchmarks for improving the health system, such as insuring more Americans and reducing healthcare costs. If they failed to do so by a certain deadline, the federal government would launch its own health insurance program.” (LAT)
- “Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates indicated Thursday that he is open to increasing the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, voicing a shift in his position as the administration ponders a military assessment expected to lead to a formal request for additional forces.” (WaPo)
- “The unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent in August, the highest since June 1983, as employers eliminated a net total of 216,000 jobs… While the jobless rate rose more than expected, the number of job cuts is less than July’s upwardly revised total of 276,000 and the lowest in a year, according to Labor Department data released Friday.”(AP)
Federal Grant of the Day
- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; Overview Information; Personnel Development To Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilities–Paraprofessional Preservice Program Improvement Grants; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010- The purposes of this program are to (1) Help address State-identified needs for highly qualified personnel–in special education, related services, early intervention, and regular education–to work with infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically based research and experience, to be successful in serving those children. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: November 3, 2009.
Today in History
- On September 4th, 1972, U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz won his seventh gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Munich. Spitz swam the fly leg of the 400-meter medley relay, and his team set a new world-record time of 3 minutes, 48.16 seconds. Spitz set the record for the number of gold medals won in one Olympiad, a record finally broken last year by American swimmer Michael Phelps.
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