Live Breaking News & Updates on Rural Business Program Account
Stay updated with breaking news from Rural business program account. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
OP-ED: Bidenomics Builds on Efforts to Invest in Struggling Communities postnewsgroup.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from postnewsgroup.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and I introduced this legislation on a bipartisan basis last year with Hal Rogers (R-KY-05) in the House and Rob Portman (R-OH) in the Senate. It passed the House and was marked up in the Senate. It came up just short of being enacted into law, but our work continues. We have achieved remarkable progress. We cannot help struggling Americans unless we help the communities they call home. We have a president of the United States who understands that. His vision of a country where “every American willing to work hard should be able to say where they grew up and stay where they grew up” is within reach. ....
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and I introduced this legislation on a bipartisan basis last year with Hal Rogers (R-KY-05) in the House and Rob Portman (R-OH) in the Senate. It passed the House and was marked up in the Senate. It came up just short of being enacted into law, but our work continues. We have achieved remarkable progress. We cannot help struggling Americans unless we help the communities they call home. We have a president of the United States who understands that. His vision of a country where “every American willing to work hard should be able to say where they grew up and stay where they grew up” is within reach. ....
Congress is considering an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2014, and it’s chock-full of inappropriate and wasteful spending. Lawmakers will have only a few days to read the mammoth bill before they are pressed to approve it. But this bill deserves close scrutiny. Just because Congress reached an agreement in December to exceed the 2014 sequestration spending caps by $45 billion doesn’t mean lawmakers are required to spend every single penny and keep throwing good money at bad government programs. ....
After reaching an agreement to spend nearly $45 billion more in 2014 than allowed under the sequestration spending caps, Congress still needs to pass the now over $1 trillion discretionary spending bill into law. As congressional appropriators are adding the final touches to the omnibus bill expected the week of January 6, they would be wise to eliminate any and all of the following 10 programs: ....