The House of Representatives had a buy-American provision in the stimulus bill, which, thankfully, the Senate diluted.
But leave the stimulus in place for too long, and they risk damaging long-term growth prospects.
The stimulus bill's spending on infrastructure may have been doomed to mediocrity from the start.
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But there is a metric that reveals a little more about the effectiveness of the stimulus.
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Instead, she writes, Obama let the Democrat-controlled Congress loose on the stimulus bill, upsetting conservatives.
The model they use guarantees the finding that the stimulus saved jobs and growth.
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You have often said that bipartisanship is extraordinarily important overall, and in the stimulus package.
There was -- a lot of minorities and women (inaudible) of the stimulus package.
And yet the message from the government with the stimulus bill is to spend, spend, spend.
That's the only way we can cool down the stimulus, in essence, cool down our brains.
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According to the article, Administration officials have claimed that the stimulus program has supported 50, 000 jobs.
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The debt issued to finance the stimulus will pose a burden on future taxpayers.
Support for the stimulus package is dropping from narrow majority support to below that.
Has the Republican Party taken a hit because they opposed the stimulus plan?
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The House passed its version of the stimulus plan last week without a single Republican vote.
During the congressional debate over the stimulus the HMO industry never objected to that subsidy.
That venture was created in 2009, just in time to cash in on the stimulus.
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Kilroy, too, voted for the health care law as well as the stimulus package.
As the stimulus bill rolls toward passage, I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.
You take those two things out, that accounts for the majority of the stimulus package.
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But the provisions in the stimulus package would work much better if they were made permanent.
And it began preparing markets for unwinding of the stimulus efforts and its easy money policies.
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The hope is that with the stimulus you can give a jump-start to consumer final demand.
The market has to sniff the stimulus package that is coming no later than January.
What the government intends to do to jolt the economy once the stimulus money runs out.
The stimulus created 2 million jobs in its first year, and 3.2 million by March 2011.
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For the picture to get better, the stimulus from monetary and fiscal measures must take hold.
Still, the stimulus package is unlikely to make an immediate impact on the Inland Empire.
And for all their suspicion of Keynesianism, they were helped by the stimulus policies around them.
So if it's not extra borrowing where would the stimulus Cable talks of come from?
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