Senate GOP Strips Bailout for Hollywood, Blocks Extra $25 Billion

by Stephan Tawney on February 3, 2009

Senate Republicans were able to block an extra $25 billion and strip a $246 million bailout for Hollywood from the Reid-Pelosi-Obama Debt Act of 2009. First the extra $25 billion:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked Democrats from adding $25 billion for highways, mass transit, and water projects to President Barack Obama’s economic recovery program. Already unhappy over the size of the measure, Republicans insisted additional infrastructure projects be paid for with cuts elsewhere in the bill.

But the Democratic amendment garnered 58 votes, just shy of the supermajority needed under Senate budget rules, and many more efforts to increase the measure’s size are sure to follow.

“We can’t add to the size of this bill,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. “The amount is just inconceivable to most people.”

And now, via Michelle Malkin, the Hollywood bailout:

The vote just wrapped up on GOP Sen. Tom Coburn’s amendment striking $246 million in special tax breaks for the film industry.

The amendment passed 52-45.

Only $1 trillion in ill-considered, pork-laden generational theft left to kill.

Indeed. I’ve also had a MoveOn.org email forwarded to me in which the lefty group is rallying its troops to call and support the $1 trillion bailout. Contact your Senator here: 202) 224-3121. Tell them to oppose the pork-laden debt bill.



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