Thursday, March 19, 2009

Two Obama administration proposals that could face difficulties in Congress include missile defense funding.

http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/nuclearweapons/articles/031809_congress_and_obamas_agenda

A key bellwether vote in the new Congress came on February 13 when only three Senate Republicans broke ranks from their party and voted with Democrats for President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill.

If support from three Senate Republicans seems sparse, try comparing it to the House of Representatives, where not a single Republican voted in favor of the stimulus. This opening salvo was followed by subsequent unified Republican opposition to an expansion of health care for children, an employment discrimination measure, and a housing foreclosure bill.