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How will you tell YOUR senator to vote?

Obama says we will not survive if this isn't passed... "You will all be reposnsible!" --Barak Obama $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient. • A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film. •$650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program. •$88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship). •$448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters. •$248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters. •$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees. •$400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's. •$1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs. •$125 million for the Washington sewer system. •$150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities. •$1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion. $75 million for "smoking cessation activities." •$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges. •$75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI. •$25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction. •$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River. •$10 million to inspect canals in urban areas. •$6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings. •$500 million for state and local fire stations. •$650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands. •$1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs. •$88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service. •$412 million for CDC buildings and property. •$500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland. •$160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service. •$5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration. •$850 million for Amtrak. •$100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint. •$75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies. •$110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems. •$200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

Public Comments

1. I'm not going to bother. Feinstein and Boxer are complete idiots who never listen to reason.
2. I would demand my senators to vote no.
3. It doesn't matter what we tell them.They're going to do just what the hell they want to and ignore us as usual.
4. I'll be telling *both* my Senators to vote for the bill. You should talk to just one of yours.
5. AGAINST THE STIMULUS BILL....
6. Already called and told them to vote "No". They will be held accountable.
7. Like it makes a difference for me - I'm New Jersey - home of the tax and spenders. My car was vandalized twice w McCain stickers - cop actually told me it was my own fault.
8. I've already expressed my views to both my House Reps and Senators. Not only do I disagree with this irreponsible spending, but I feel that the direction taken by this new leader in the last two weeks has demonstrated where he truly intends to lead us - a socialist left New World government who has allegiances to everyone but it's own citizens. I want Obama impeached.
9. You can't blame me for that socialist trash being pushed by Obama; I voted McCain Palin.
10. My representatives don't care to really represent me. They don't even live in the state they represent.
11. The same as I told them when they voted for the corporate welfare "bailout" bush signed. I told my senators (john mcccain - r and jon kyl - r ) to vote NO. They voted YES anyway. Typical party lemmings that they are.
12. I WOULD TELL THEM TO VOTE AGAINST IT
13. Like any of them really cares how we think...To them it`s all about getting the pork in so they can be re-elected next term.....this bill is not just pork it`s the whole pig.....If they would listen I would say no to this so called stimulus bill
14. Fear mongers running this country. They will all be held accountable with my vote. Unfortunately the leftist/socialists are loving this. We are a country of slackers and we are all but at the end of the road, to be a one world nation.
15. 1 im gonna encourage senator brown to vote yes, and convince his counterpart to as well 2 did you really think that was a list of bad things? much of it sounds like things that will translate directly into very average jobs 3 despite not minding what you posted i question its validity based on the roundness of the numbers. bills usually include much more specific dollar amounts than that, not to mention descriptions of the purpose of the funds.
16. I just want to know, WTH they are getting the money from? Oh great, borrower from another country. Geeze thats a great example to people...borrower and spend. Lets all go crazy with the credit cards! That will boost the economy.....and forget about paying back, our kids or grandkids can take care of it.
17. I have tried to call my Senators for 2 hours now and the phone lines have been busy. However I will continue to call until I get through to tell my senators to vote NO.
18. I think there should be some provisions for unemployment funding and the homeless just in case this spending doesn't create all the jobs some think it will. The first 350 billion hasn't created new jobs or helped the working class, so the chances are pretty good this package won't be enough for those who need and deserve help. Thanks for asking and posting the "stimulus" breakdown. I have to believe you are more interested in what I think than my Senators are.