{"id":4642,"date":"2011-11-04T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/reid-says-no-to-passing-jobs-bills\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:50:13","slug":"reid-says-no-to-passing-jobs-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/reid-says-no-to-passing-jobs-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid Says No to Passing Jobs Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/harry-reid.jpg' alt='harry-reid.jpg' class='right' \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/reynosawatch.org\/minstrel\/2011\/11\/04\/reid-says-jam-it\/\">Cross-posted from TWM<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment has been at or above 9 percent nationwide, yet when presented with seventeen genuine job creating bills, Senate Majority Leader <strong>Harry Reid<\/strong> (D &#8211; NV) says &#8220;No&#8221; to the House of Representatives. <\/p>\n<p>House Republicans have passed job-creating bills that are being stalled by Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate, who refuse to even bring the bills to the Senate floor for a proper vote. Senate Democrats refuse outright to work with their Republican counterparts to get jobs created. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of the seventeen measures which would all have a positive effect on reducing unemployment and is being stalled by Reid and the Democrats:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>H.R. 872\u2014Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 910\u2014Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011<\/li>\n<li>H.J. Res. 37\u2014Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 1230\u2014Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 1229\u2014Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 1231\u2014Reversing President Obama&#8217;s Offshore Moratorium Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 2021\u2014The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 2018\u2014Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 1315\u2014Consumer Financial Protection &#038; Soundness Improvement Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 1938\u2014 North American-Made Energy Security Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 2587\u2014Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 2401\u2014Transparency In Regulatory Analysis Of Impacts On The Nation<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 2681\u2014Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 2250\u2014EPA Regulatory Relief Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 2273\u2014Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 2433\u2014Veterans Opportunity to Work Act<\/li>\n<li>H.R. 674\u2014To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The preceding list of measures provided by <strong>Congressman Trent Franks<\/strong> (R &#8211; AZ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross-posted from TWM.] Unemployment has been at or above 9 percent nationwide, yet when presented with seventeen genuine job creating bills, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,20,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltway-kabuki","category-money","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}