What should be on Congress plate in 2010

[bluestateguy]

Let's say for good or bad, we get a health care bill signed in December. What should be on the table in 2010? Remember, that not everything can be on the table. Some people will just have to wait their turn.

If it were me, I would say cap and trade (which will have to be amended a lot to get 60 in the Senate; there's just no way around this), and EFCA (same thing on amendments), and ENDA and repealing DADT (which I think has the votes). As for DOMA repeal, I think we owe it to the LGBT community to give that issue a floor vote in Congress too, but I can tell you right now that the votes are not even close to being there.

[glowing]

1. Jobs would be a start. If more people were collecting a pay check, they wouldn't

be stuck on the couch watching Glenn Beck at 5pm.. they'd be sitting in rush hour traffic on their cell phones.

[demodonkey]

2. Voter-Verified Paper Ballots and Audits of Elections!

Time we finally start to get this problem corrected nationwide. Every election and every other issue remains at risk until we do.

www.HR2894.org

[vadawg]

3. blowfish that has been prepared wrong

mayby then we can start again...

[AllentownJake]

4. Analysis of American trade agreements

[DFW]

5. Basically, responses #1 and #2 sum it up

The economy and election reform.

Make election tampering a felony as serious as treason (which, in my eyes, it is anyway), and
eliminate private monitoring and counting of votes. No more CEOs of companies that make voting
machines announcing in advance that they will "deliver" a crucial state for their favorite party,
and then actually doing so, and getting away with it!

But first and foremost, GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK. We need jobs, and short of printing money like
Zimbabwe, lots of solutions need to be on the table. People with no jobs, and no hope of finding
one, make for one very unhealthy society, and one full of people very receptive to Fox-type
propaganda ("it's THEIR fault that I'm in a bad way").

[BanzaiBonnie]

6. And once we have job creation jump-started

And fair and true elections, let's dump the war on drugs. It's a huge economic drag on our economy... wait, it's a real money maker for some people, like the military industrial complex.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Reregulation...

The wheels move slow but move they are as we're starting to get more dirt on what really happened that led to last year's financial collapse. The various House & Senate committees have futzed with but have done precious little about re-regulating the banking and financial sector to prevent the rampant speculating that almost destroyed our economy. It's pressing to relieve the credit crunch on the middle class through a combination of debt relief programs (restructing Bankruptcy laws) and allowing for money to start flowing to small businesses that are the engine in stimulating jobs and truly reviving the economy.

Health care is an important step in economic reform and one President Obama had planned for...the economic situation was one he inherited that he's had to spend most of this first year trying to keep from imploding. Once healthcare is done, the focus needs to be on improving the overall economy through a combination of government spending (like a new CCC program) and tax breaks and incentives to small and medium size businesses while restoring regulation that enables them to compete.