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Obama Plan Passes Without GOP Votes (And Other News)

“With no Republican support, the House approved an $819 billion stimulus plan that will serve as the cornerstone of President Obama’s efforts to resuscitate the economy, an early victory for the new president but still a disappointment because of the lack of Republican votes,” the Washington Post reports. The measure passed 244 to 188, with 11 Democrats and all 177 Republicans voting against it. In Georgia, the Senate Transportation Committee passed a transportation funding bill on Wednesday that’s headed toward a speedy vote on the chamber floor. The proposed constitutional amendment and enabling legislation — S.R. 44 and S.B. 39 - allows counties that border each other... [Read more ...]

Obama unveils 21st Century New Deal

President-elect Barack Obama added sweep and meat to his economic agenda on Saturday, pledging the largest new investment in roads and bridges since President Dwight D. Eisenhower built the Interstate system in the late 1950s, and tying his key initiatives – education, energy, health care –back to jobs in a package that has the makings of a smaller and modern version of FDR’s New Deal marriage of job creation with infrastructure upgrades. The president-elect also said for the first time that he will “launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen.” “We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new... [Read more ...]

NFD Helps Replenish Food Banks

The North Fulton Democrats will hold a food drive at our next meeting, Dec. 9, 7:15 PM. Food banks in North Fulton county and across the country are being being hit hard by the current recession.  Donations are down and demand has increased.  Join the North Fulton Democrats Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 7:15 PM and bring some canned goods and other non-perishable items to donate. Our guest for the first half of the meeting will be Rachel Ewald, founder of the Foster Care Support Foundation, Inc., a non-profit, all volunteer organization that gives free clothes, toys and safe infant-care equipment to some of Georgia’s 13,300 foster children.  She’ll tell us how Democrats can work to help area... [Read more ...]

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