Friday, February 06, 2009
Moderates Reach a Stimulus Deal [Mark Hemingway]
Congress Daily:
A group of Senate moderates working on an amendment to cut up to $100 billion in spending from the economic stimulus package have completed a tentative proposal that will be presented to Senate Democrats at a 5:30 p.m. caucus meeting, Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad told reporters. "There is a proposal that is sufficiently fleshed out and we will have a caucus and discuss it," Conrad said after emerging from talks in Senate Majority Leader Reid's office. Democrats hope the proposal, developed by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Ben Nelson, R-Neb., will attract several GOP supporters and be acceptable to all Democrats, which would allow for passage of the plan as early as tonight.
02/06 05:33 PM
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