Recent Senate Votes

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 – Vote Agreed to (59-39, 2 Not Voting) The Senate passed this bill to extend unemployment benefits through November 30, making the extension retroactive to June 2 when the last extension expired. Because it was amended by the Senate, it was sent back to the House for final approval. Sen. John Ensign voted NO……send e-mail or see bio Sen. Harry Reid voted YES……send e-mail or see bio Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010 – Vote Rejected (46-51, 3 Not Voting) The Senate rejected the House’s amendment to this legislation funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and providing for additional funding for foreign aid and disaster assistance. The amendment would have added $22.8 billion in additional domestic spending. The House is expected to approve the bill without the amendment. Sen. John Ensign voted NO……send e-mail or see bio Sen. Harry Reid voted YES……send e-mail or see bio

Recent House Votes

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 – Vote Passed (271-152, 9 Not Voting) On Thursday, the House passed this bill to extend unemployment benefits through November 30, making the extension retroactive to June 2 when the last extension expired. It was then sent to the president, who signed it the same day. Rep. Shelley Berkley voted YES……send e-mail or see bio

Recent House Votes

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 – Vote Passed (271-152, 9 Not Voting) On Thursday, the House passed this bill to extend unemployment benefits through November 30, making the extension retroactive to June 2 when the last extension expired. It was then sent to the president, who signed it the same day. Rep. Dina Titus voted YES……send e-mail or see bio

Recent House Votes

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 – Vote Passed (271-152, 9 Not Voting) On Thursday, the House passed this bill to extend unemployment benefits through November 30, making the extension retroactive to June 2 when the last extension expired. It was then sent to the president, who signed it the same day. Rep. Dean Heller voted YES……send e-mail or see bio

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Sharron Angle spoke to her 1,100 conservative supporters at Right Online today. It was a friendly audience for her. She spoke and promptly left without taking questions.

She outlined her positions:

“It’s one nation under God, not one nation under the government.”

She has “the right ‘Angle’ to defeat Harry Reid.”

She supports repeal of the estate tax.

She proposes paying left over stimulus money left over from TARP to Social Security “to save it.”

She proposes to abolish the Department of Education.

She advocates tightening the borders. “Every state needs at least one sheriff like Joe Arpaio.”

She wants to audit the Fed and liquidate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

[Source: Washington Wire]

She wants to withdraw from the United Nations.

She supports banning same-sex marriage.

She wants to phase out Medicare and Social Security.

She is against water fluoridation of drinking water

She wants to eliminate the Internal Revenue Service.

She opposes legalization of marijuana and feels the same about alcohol.

She does not believe in “anthropogenic global warming.”

She would repeal regulations that prohibits offshore drilling, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and development of American-owned petroleum resources.

She supports the three coal-fired plants in Ely.

She favors Yucca Mountain as a profit center for reprocessing.

[Wikipedia]

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I’m really skeptical that God communicates with people telling them to run for election to some political office.

But then God has never spoken to me about the subject.

Sharron Angle has said that God called her to run against Harry Reid she told the Christian Broadcasting Network in an interview. [Las Vegas Sun] She goes on to explain “there is a preparation” time. [Las Vegas Sun] She explains that Moses, Paul and even Jesus had their times of preparation.

Sharron indicates her preparation time began on a Nye County school board. I have no idea how serving on a school board prepares one to be a Senator in Congress.

But I have to hand it to Ms. Angle. She seems to be dedicated and tenacious in her run for the Senate. I actually met her once. She was seeking votes at Petrack Park in Pahrump a few years ago during a Fall Festival event. She came up to me with that wonderful smile of hers, introduced herself and asked for my vote and support in whatever office she was running for at that time. She was gracious, polite and frankly likeable. I explained to her I was a Democrat and she shouldn’t expect my vote. Seeing that I was a lost cause she moved onto others in the Park.

She seems like a nice person. I admire her for her seemingly tireless effort to get elected to something. We just see the world through two different sets of eyes. She is reportedly a Southern Baptist. So am I. But we certainly see things differently.

I don’t think Ms. Angle has a frog hair’s chance of beating Harry Reid but it doesn’t seem to dampen her spirits in trying. But I think, in reality, she is a bit delusional in thinking she actually has a chance to unseat Senator Reid.

Confusing politics with religious beliefs is not uncommon. But they are two different things.

Jon Ralston says Sharron is falling behind Harry in the polls. He is leading her 44-37. [Las Vegas Sun] In fact Ralston declares Angles’ campaign as “dead.”

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Republican Sharron Angle reported raising $2.3 million since late May for her campaign against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, an amount that nearly equaled what Reid has banked since April, so reports the Las Vegas Sun.

Senator Harry Reid is spending nearly $1 million a month — that’s more than he’s taking in.

Reid has a balance of about $9 million in the bank. Angle has about $1.8 million on hand.

Reid will need to raise an average of more than $44,000 a day to reach his goal of $25 million.

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President Barack Obama flies to Las Vegas to stump for Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid.

Obama calls Sharron Angles ideas “old worn out” theories.

See the video on the Las Vegas Sun.

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Nevada will receive $102.8 million as part of a program to help residents who are trying to avoid foreclosure on their homes.

Nevada is among five states that will receive funds from the program, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Nevada will receive the largest amount per resident.

“I’ve been working hard to help stabilize Nevada’s housing market and provide resources for Nevadans who are struggling to keep their homes,” Reid said in a prepared statement this morning. “I told President Obama and Secretaries Donovan and Geithner that Nevada needs help and I thank them for responding. Now it’s up to banks and credit unions to step up to the plate so that this $100 million will have the maximum benefit for homeowners to reduce principal amounts and provide lien relief.”

The $102.8 million for Nevada is set to be used in this way:

· Nevada will create a mortgage modification program using a combination of forgiveness and forbearance with a goal of reducing principal to less than 115 percent of loan-to-value and lowering payments to 31 percent of debt-to-income.

· The state will also offer assistance to reduce/eliminate second liens with earned forgiveness over a three-year term.

· The state will provide allowances for appraisal and transaction fees, moving fees, a legal allowance for up to three months,and a combination of incentives for borrowers and servicers to facilitate short sales.

Senator Harry Reid

Now, as Senator Reid points out,

“Now it’s up to banks and credit unions to step up to the plate so that this $100 million will have the maximum benefit for homeowners to reduce principal amounts and provide lien relief.”

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“Among those who qualify for this help are borrowers who are unemployed, homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages and Nevadans struggling with second liens,” Rep. Shelley Berkley said in a statement. Rep. Dina Titus called it “a critical step forward that will make much-needed funds available to help families stay in their homes.”

[Source: Las Vegas Sun]

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Sharron Angle wants to phase out Social Security and Medicare. “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out,” she says on the video.

Mrs. Angle might want to do that, but she’s still young, healthy and active. My wife and I are 77, old, and getting less active by the day. Lord, she sounds as bad as George Bush.

She may be a conservative Tea Bagger but fiddling around with Social Security and Medicare, which works for me and my wife, just isn’t going to get it, irrespective of what she wants to do.

My comment to those of you who are Republican or Libertarian or Tea Baggers is simple. Do you think you want to give up your Social Security and Medicare just so Mrs. Angle can get elected? Think about it. You’ll be cutting off your nose to spite your face.

She told Jon Ralston on Face to Face “We need to phase Social Security and Medicare out in favor of something privatized. We know the government never gives…Don’t fix it…It can’t be fixed. It’s broken.”

Had Bush been successful in privatizing Social Security us old folks would most likely been out in the streets looking for a soup kitchen when the market bottom fell out recently.

[Source: Las Vegas Sun]

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Sharron Angle was interviewed:

…on KXNT Wednesday. When asked about why she was referred to as a “niche candidate” and “whack job” she said:

“Well, a whack job candidate is Harry Reid. That’s why we’ve got to fire him,” Angle responded. “He’s out of touch with the mainstream America.” [Huffington Post]

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Republican Sharron Angle of the Tea Party Express has now come into national politics. Americans across the nation are becoming acquainted with her and Nevada politics. She is shown here at a Tea Party rally held last March in Searchlight, Nevada, hometown of Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid.

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