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奥巴马签署紧急法案帮助教师解决失业

华盛顿 ( 美联社 ) --在夏天休假中被召集,星期二下议院通过一个紧急法案价值26十亿美元,民主党人表示这个法案将帮助大选年后失业的300,000名教师,警察和其他人。总统巴拉克 奥巴马立即签署草案立法。

立法者回到华盛顿举行一场为期一天的会议,民主党人声明在孩子返回学校前必需要采取行动减少解雇教师,因为正式的预算受到经济衰退的打击。

共和党人看法不同,声称法案是给教师工会免费赠品,有一个例子说明在这个秋季选举中选举者将会对过度开销华盛顿的民主党人进行惩罚。法案被通过的主要是党派的得票数在247-161

对于美国帮助主要通过对偷税的跨国公司的惩罚及减少对贫民食物粮票的福利。

在今天早些时参加教师们在玫瑰园典礼时,奥巴马说道,“我们不能袖手旁观,什么都不做,当解聘通知书放在教育我们子女和维护我们社区安全的人的手里。”

参议员在上周四才勉强通过方案,下议院在8月开始执行。

立法向学校地区提供10十亿美元再次雇佣被解雇的教师或者保证更多教师将不会在新学期之前被解雇。 教育部门估计可以保住16万个工作职位。

教育部秘书长阿恩邓肯说他的部门将合理制定分配流程,使资金尽快分到当地的学校。 他说四分之三国家的地区中开着的学校教师人员不够,“我们希望今年能避免危机”。

增加16十亿美元在未来延续六个月里,在全美增强医疗保险计划的支付。 若有剩余资金将优先保证其他预算,包括在工资上保证超过150,000警员和其他社会工作者的需求。

有大约三分之五的州已经开始关注联邦政府的资金,已经把其放到本年预算中。 全美州长协会,致国会的一封信中提到,国家估计的2010年预算有缺口,一年的缺口在116十亿美元,而扩展的医疗补助方案付款是“最好的方式帮助国家平衡在不利的财政年度和开始经济复苏之间”。

并非所有州长都赞同。. 密西西比州共和党人哈利 巴伯衫说他的州将不得不重写其预算并且不得不对花费50到100百万美元在教育补助金中追加额外的98百万美元。

与以前通过直接的联邦开销的联动经济相比26十亿美元投入是小的。 但是由于选举接近,政治的利益是高的。

代表大卫 德雷尔和瑞哈里发说“教师、护士和警察不应该成为政治游戏的工具,由于民主多数原则失去的控制责任。”

“紧急救助的尽头在哪里?” 俄亥俄州的共和党人领导者约翰博纳问道。 “我们州可以今年可以摆脱困境,明年也同样可以吗? 有一些时候我们不得不说,‘适可而止.'”

但是,共和党人代表杰 英斯利说他的华盛顿州将使资助保持3,000名教师。 共和党人,他说,“在华盛顿州,想那些亿万美元的公司漏洞远比保证近3000名教师和教师重要得多”。

代表吉姆 麦克德莫克,德 沃什,说共和党人忽略了法律将不添加到联邦的赤字的事实。 “他们想运用他们的权利做每一件事去确保总统奥巴马不再失信于国家。 我在十一月想他们将发现它是一项无效的政策”。

执行法律的支付手段是有争议的,导致参议院中一场的困难的谈判。

共和党人反对通过在一些以美国为基础的跨国公司上筹税收提高大约10十亿美元。 贫困的拥护者反对加快调整取消在去年经济恢复政策中提高食物粮票支付的条款。 在措施实行下,付款将在2014年恢复到之前的利率,节省几乎12十亿美元。

詹姆斯韦尔,食物研究和行动中心的主席,说新的食物粮票计划将减少40百万人的利益。 “那些家庭将会更加饥饿,可能购买不了健康的食物”,他说。

韦尔的组织估计四个家庭之一可能现在一个月新收到食物粮票是464美元,比过往可能损失59美元。 民主党人保证在支付生效的四年中前,他们会找到其他方式去执行支付这法律。

“在法案中减少食物粮票的计划是错误的”,美国住宅拨款委员会主席大卫奥贝说到。

市劳工联盟主席杰拉尔德 麦肯蒂拒绝民主党理由是民主党的主要目的是通过立法去回馈他们在工会中的朋友。 “我们面对政府预算中难以置信的漏洞忍耐着。 对于美国人极其重要的需要巨大的但在经济方面却只给一个很小的空间”,他谈及立法。

下议院在星期二通过600百万美元的措施意在增强美国与墨西哥边界的安保,通过雇佣更多官员和更大范围的使用无人侦察机。 法案仍然不得不通过参议院审议。


 
Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs. President Barack Obama immediately signed it into law.

Lawmakers streamed back to Washington for a one-day session as Democrats declared a need to act before children return to classrooms minus teachers laid off because of budgetary crises in states that have been hard-hit by the recession.

Republicans saw it differently, calling the bill a giveaway to teachers' unions and an example of wasteful Washington spending that voters will punish the Democrats for in this fall's elections. The legislation was approved mainly along party lines by a vote of 247-161.

The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor.

Obama, joined by teachers at a Rose Garden ceremony earlier in the day, said, "We can't stand by and do nothing while pink slips are given to the men and women who educate our children or keep our communities safe."

The Senate narrowly passed the measure last Thursday, after the House had begun its August break.

The legislation provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or to ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins. The Education Department estimates that could save 160,000 jobs.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said his department would streamline the application process to get the money to local school districts quickly. He said three-fourths of the nation's districts have said they would be opening the school year with fewer teachers and "we wanted to avert a crisis for this year."

An additional $16 billion would extend for six months increased Medicaid payments to the states. That would free money for states to meet other budget priorities, including keeping more than 150,000 police officers and other public workers on the payroll.

Some three-fifths of states have already factored in the federal money in drawing up their budgets for the current fiscal year. The National Governors Association, in a letter to congressional leaders, said the states' estimated budget shortfall for the 2010-12 period is $116 billion, and the extended Medicaid payments are "the best way to help states bridge the gap between their worst fiscal year and the beginning of recovery."

Not all governors were on board. Mississippi Republican Haley Barbour said his state would have to rewrite its budget and would have to spend $50 million to $100 million to get its additional $98 million in education grants.

The $26 billion package is small compared to previous efforts to right the flailing economy through federal spending. But with the election approaching, the political stakes were high.

"Teachers, nurses and cops should not be used as pawns in a cynical political game" resulting from "the Democratic majority's failure to govern responsibly," said Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif.

"Where do the bailouts end?" asked Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio. "Are we going to bail out states next year and the year after that, too? At some point we've got to say, 'Enough is enough.'"

But Democratic Rep. Jay Inslee said his state of Washington would get funds to keep 3,000 teachers. Republicans, he said, "think those billions of dollars for those corporate loopholes is simply more important than almost 3,000 teachers and classrooms in the state of Washington."

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., said Republicans ignore the fact that the law would not add to the federal deficit. "They want to do everything in their power to make certain that President Obama can't get this country going again. I think in November they are going to find it was a dumb policy."

The means of paying for the bill, a result of difficult negotiations in the Senate, were contentious.

Republicans objected to raising some $10 billion by raising taxes on some U.S.-based multinational companies. Advocates for the poor protested a provision to accelerate the phasing out of an increase in food stamp payments implemented in last year's economic recovery bill. Under the measure, payments would return to pre-stimulus rates in 2014, saving almost $12 billion.

James Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, said that would be cutting benefits for some 40 million people now receiving food stamps. "Those families will be hungrier and less able to buy healthy diets," he said.

Weill's group estimated that a family of four that may now receive about $464 a month in food stamps stood to lose about $59. Democrats gave assurances that they would look for other ways to pay for the law before the payment cuts go into effect in four years.

"The cutbacks in food stamps in the bill are plain wrong," said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis.

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees President Gerald McEntee rejected GOP arguments that the Democrats' primary purpose with the legislation was to reward their friends in organized labor. "We're in tough shape out there with these incredible holes in these state budgets. To the American people it's tremendously important and will give a little lift to the economy," he said of the legislation.

The House on Tuesday also passed a $600 million measure to boost security on the U.S.-Mexican border by hiring more enforcement officers and making greater use of unmanned surveillance drones. That bill still has to go back to the Senate.


 

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