Handing the new administration a big win, the House Friday passed President Obama's $787 billion plan to resuscitate the economy.
Pelosi: Voting for all, GOP: Not for us
by Mark Silva
To hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tell it, she was channeling all of America when she voted for the president's $787-billion economic stimulus bill today.
"I could feel it myself, when I turned in my voting card, that I was voting not just for myself but the people in my district and all Americans that I was fulfilling the wishes'' of all, said Pelosi (D-Calif.), after the vote.
Of course, there were 183 Americans in the House chamber today who weren't feeling the speaker's joy"We didn't have one Republican vote for this bill,'' Pelosi acknowledged.
"This was a one-party bill,'' complained Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) "We weren't allowed to write one word of this bill.''
A lot of words, and numbers, went into those 1,071 pages. And a lot of work, on the White House's part, as Pelosi noted.
"Barack Obama, in just a few short weeks in office, has passed one of the biggest packages for economic relief in our history,'' the speaker said of her party's president. "This is one remarkable president. He did something faster than any American president has.''
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) was among those feeling somewhat less exuberant about the president's success today: "I agree with comments by President Obama and Speaker Pelosi that any stimulus package must be timely, targeted and temporary,'' Blunt said after the House's 246-183 vote for the package. "But the so-called stimulus package the House passed today fails each of those tests.''
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