An influential Senate Democrat said Friday that it's unclear whether President Obama's $819 economic stimulus bill will win enough support to pass in the Senate.
"I don't even know how many Democrats will vote for it, as it stands today," Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., told FOX News.
Nelson, a moderate Democrat, is famous for gathering lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in a so-called "Gang of 14" to avert a shutdown of the Senate over judicial nominations. He is seeking a similar bipartisan effort to improve the stimulus bill.
Lawmakers are unhappy that the bill, passed by the House on Wednesday, contains billions of dollars for programs that arguably won't spark much job growth.
"What I'm hoping to do is bring together a bipartisan group of Republicans and Democrats and offer changes that will attract others and improve the bill," he told FOX News. "People want this to succeed."
Asked how many Republicans he can get to vote for the bill, Nelson said he didn't even know how many Democrats would vote for it. - FOX News Story
You have to question this bill no matter what party you are from. This bill is loaded with spending that will have nothing to do with getting the economy going. I am not saying that all of the spending are for bad projects, it is just if you are going to spend the money, call it what it is - a spending bill. President Obama says he wants to limit earmarks, but the way to do that is not by adding the spending into the bill. If it is a Stimulus Bill that it should only contain items that are truly for the Stimulus package.
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