The Senate on Wednesday rejected a proposal by President Barack Obama to give people on Social Security a $250 bonus check.Republicans and Democratic deficit hawks combined to reject the idea by a 50-47 vote. The plan, offered in the Senate by Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., would have added $14 billion to the out-of-control budget deficit.
Mar 4, 2010
Bonus Plan Voted Down
From the Associated Press:
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Imagine--it would have been more than the entire annual SSA administrative budget--what a stupid proposal. These clowns have learned nothing.
Nice idea but as a democrat,i agree
with the failed vote.
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