July 31, 2006
The Political Week Ahead
The Senate will try to tackle the minimum wage increase coupled with the death/estate/inheritance tax cap and tax extenders.... and then pension reform and Defense Department appropriations. The House is in recess; Speaker Hastert plans five campaign appearances for Republicans.
We could learn today whether Tom DeLay loses his appeal to remove his name from the Texas 22 congressional ballot. We'll almost certainly know by mid-August.
August 3: Primary elections in Tennessee, where a crowded field in TN 01 will be winnowed and DC Republicans hope Bob Corker wins the Senate primary. Also worth watching: on 8/1, challenges to three creationism-supporting members on the Kansas state board of education.
The RNC's summer meeting kicks off in ('08 convention frontrunner city) Minneapolis on August 2. Journalists: at this moment, the political briefing by White House political director Sara Taylor is OPEN to the press.
A political week for POTUS. He starts off in Miami; speaks on the economy. He gets a physical on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he raises money for Ken Blackwell (no cameras!) in Ohio. He does some border tourin' on Thursday in Texas, and then RONS in Crawford for the weekend.
Next weekend, Gov. Mike Huckabee will be the belle of South Carolina. He's hosting the NGA meeting in Charleston (which will feature other governors like Pataki and Romney) and he'll manage to squeeze in a speech about defending heterosexual marriage.
Gov. George Pataki (R-NY) hits the trifecta next weekend: He stops in NH and IA, and attends the NGA conference in SC, and then he delivers what aides bill as a major speech on energy in DC.
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We are a senior, retired couple ages 67 & 66, living off Social Security and a pension from Northwest Airlines. For 33 years we strived to pay into the pension so we could provide for ourselves during old age retirement.
We urge the Senate to vote yes on H.R. 4, The Pension Protection Act, without amendment.
If this bill is rejected by the Senate, or is sent back for amendments, Northwest Airlines will terminate our plan as an exit strategy from bankruptcy. Please vote “YES” on H.R. 4.
If the bill is rejected we will loose our retirement benefits, savings, our home, our company medical plan and other retirement benefits received from NWA - we can’t survive status quo on just SS and the smidgen received from the PBGC.
After working for over 40 years we will in all probability end up in our old age as wards of the state. This isn’t the great American dream that so many have worked for.
Please save us from becoming welfare recipients and a drain on the taxpayers. Please vote YES on H.R. 4 this week when it comes before the Senate.
Respectfully,
An Ameican
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