Posted February 10, 2009 3:43 PM
by Frank James
For anyone trying to get a handle on the differences between the Senate and House versions of the economic stimulus legislation, the Senate Finance Committee has issued a handy document on those two bills with a side-by-side comparison of the provisions in both bills.
You'll quickly notice that the Senate Finance document doesn't contain dollar amounts for the various provisions. That's where a comparison from ProPublica, the non-profit journalism organization, is very useful because it has the amounts.
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Frank James cites an analysis by "Propublica". ProPublica is run by Herbert Sandler, who bankrolls moveon.org and Obama 527 organizations and contributed megabucks ($118,000) to the Dems in 2008.
Any surprise Frank James would use such a biased Dem (and further left) source?
Posted by: Inconvenient Truth | February 10, 2009 3:59 PM
Inconvenient Truth....funny, I was ready to say just the opposite....the other link to the senate publication is a joke. Really, there are so many categories that have a N/A for the house plan that you would think the house plan would be 1/3 the price! I think both links have a heavy senate slant to them.
Frank, shame on you for not doing the homework and linking crap propoganda as fact. I did some cross checking and there are so many conflicting data points that I am starting to get concerned that this is turning into a political football.
Here are some other side-by-side comparisions that conflict with the two that James put up here:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29063134
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilJqicI57LpAIHT8MgwZQx1JsPJAD9688AF00
I wish I had time to do the homework on these bills. I would think the Trib would do their own investigative journalism job on this one.
Something stinks about all of this. Someone is really trying to shalack the public here.
Posted by: Xcellenform | February 10, 2009 6:21 PM