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Here We Go Again: Obama Trying to Revive Cap & Tax

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White House to Host Climate, Energy Meeting With Senators

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will try Tuesday to jump start his push to get a climate and energy bill through Congress in the coming weeks, hosting a meeting with cabinet officials and senior Democratic and Republican senators.

A number of powerful senators are calling for the White House to instead support an energy-only bill such as the bipartisan one passed out committee last year, and leave the question of how to curb greenhouse gas emissions aside.

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Obama Administration To Seize Land, Kill Jobs

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DEMINT: White House land grab

Proposal to seize land would favor animals over Americans

You’d think the Obama administration is busy enough controlling the banks, insurance companies and automakers, but thanks to whistleblowers at the Department of the Interior, we now learn they’re planning to increase their control over energy-rich land in the West.

A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, halting job- creating activities like ranching, forestry, mining and energy development. Worse, this land grab would dry up tax revenue that’s essential for funding schools, firehouses and community centers.

At a time when our national unemployment rate is 9.7 percent, it is unbelievable anyone would be looking to stop job-creating energy enterprises, yet that’s exactly what’s happening.

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Obamacare 2.0 to Cost nearly $1 Trillion, Raise Taxes

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Obama Health Plan Costs $950 Billion Over 10 Years

The new White House’s proposal would cost $950 billion over 10 years, more than the bill approved by the Senate but less than the House measure. It was posted on the White House Web site Monday morning.

The Obama plan calls for giving the federal government authority to block insurers from making premium-rate increases. A new Health Insurance Rate Authority would lay out what it viewed as reasonable rate increases, and those considered unjustified could be blocked.

The changes will increase the cost of the Senate bill by about $75 billion, bringing the total price tag to about $950 billion, said Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House health reform office.

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Stimulus: Take 2?

Hasn't the Administration and the Democrats in Congress already tried this? Wasn't this their priority last year? Last February, the Administration contended that if the "stimulus" was passed and signed into law the unemployment rate would stay below 8%. That projection has been far surpassed as we have seen the unemployment rate balloon over 10% nationally. M... read more

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Obama’s top priority is to boost jobs: White House

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama’s top goal as he enters a second year in office is to lift U.S. job creation and revitalize the economy, the White House said on Tuesday.

“The top priority is to continue to work hard on getting this economy back on track and creating jobs,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told a news briefing.

Obama, who completes a year at the White House this week, has suggested a second round of job creation initiatives on top of a $787 billion emergency stimulus he signed in February 2009 to aid the economy and the House of Representatives approved a $15 billion job bill in December.

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“Stimulus” Package Oversight Abandoned by White House

House Republicans continue to call for additional oversight and transparency on how the White House has spend $787 billion to “create or save” jobs through the “stimulus package.” Unfortunately it comes as no surprise that the Obama Administration has made it even more difficult to track how effective the plan has been.

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The White House has abandoned its controversial method of counting jobs under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus, making it impossible to track the number of jobs saved or created with the $787 billion in recovery money.

Despite mounting a vigorous defense of its earlier count of more than 640,000 jobs credited to the stimulus, even after numerous errors were identified, the Obama administration now is making it easier to give the stimulus credit for hiring. It’s no longer about counting a job as saved or created; now it’s a matter of counting jobs funded by the stimulus.

That means that any stimulus money used to cover payroll will be included in the jobs credited to the program, including pay raises for existing employees and pay for people who never were in jeopardy of losing their positions.

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