Latest Answers http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/588/%2A/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en Democrats have returned for this second session of this Congress reinvigorated and ready to tackle the problems challenging our country. We come back to this new direction Congress focusing on the economy. It has been clear for the past few weeks that all sectors of the economic world, all shades of opinion in the economic world are saying to us that a stimulus is needed to avoid a downturn or to worsen the situation. So we have this in the context of what we are doing about energy, the approach we are going to take on healthcare, what we are going to do about education - to grow our economy, create jobs and have security and economic confidence for the American people. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/democrats-have-returned-second-session-congress-reinvigorated-and-ready-tackle-problems-chal Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:45:58 -0600 958 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org “I came from the kitchen to the Congress. I came as a Mom wanting to make sure that public policy did whatever it could do that parents couldn’t do to protect its children and the trust that parents across the country would like to have in the federal government is completely unjustified when we see how lax the Consumer Product Safety Commission has been with its acting chairperson saying we don’t need any more resources and we don’t need any more authority.” http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%E2%80%9Ci-came-kitchen-congress.-i-came-mom-wanting-make-sure-public-policy-did-whatever-it-could-d Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:38:03 -0600 mhowe 879 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org “Well, I haven’t had any overture from the White House on what they might consider an appropriate next step. What I do know is that in the House we compromised from a $90 billion dollar bill to a $35 billion dollar bill in order to have bipartisanshi http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%E2%80%9Cwell%2C-i-haven%E2%80%99t-had-any-overture-white-house-what-they-might-consider-appropriate-next-step Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:38:38 -0600 Melinda 720 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org