{"id":5854,"date":"2011-09-15T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2011-09-15T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T07:01:45","slug":"oregons-merkley-on-our-side-over-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/oregons-merkley-on-our-side-over-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon&rsquo;s Merkley on our side over jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The hours I spent working to get this man elected to replace Gordon Smith, the man who voted progressive only when we didn\u2019t need him, has continued to pay dividends for Oregon and and the entire country.&#160; Now Jeff is taking on the Super Committee over jobs. Legislators like him are what happens when progressives stop whining and go to work to elect progressive Democrats.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"15Merkley\" border=\"0\" alt=\"15Merkley\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/15Merkley.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/>Senator Jeff Merkley is worried. He fears that <strong>it\u2019s increasingly unlikely that the Congressional deficit \u201csuper-committee\u201d will make a serious effort to incorporate job creation into its mission<\/strong>. Worse, he worries that <strong>some of its deficit-cutting proposals could actually do further harm to the economy<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Senator Merkley has an idea on what to do about this. He is calling on both parties to agree to <strong>submit every proposal offered by the supercommittee to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, to be evaluated for the impact it will have \u2014 on jobs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t want the CBO to evaluate the proposals just for their budgetary impact. Rather, he wants the CBO to reach a conclusion on the impact the proposals will have on unemployment, whether positive, negative, or neutral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to have every proposal that the super-committee brings out to have it scored by its jobs impact,\u201d Merkley told me in an interview this morning. He plans to urge Democratic and GOP leaders to agree to this standard, and hopes to build a campaign to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s precedent for the CBO scoring proposals for jobs impact<\/strong>. You can find examples of that <a href=\"http:\/\/cboblog.cbo.gov\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/doc.cfm?index=12385\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/doc.cfm?index=12385\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. AS Merkley notes, Congress normally submits proposals for budgetary impact but Congress can request jobs impact evaluations\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/how-to-keep-the-super-committee-honest-on-jobs\/2011\/03\/03\/gIQAIYiJSK_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have no doubt that Republicans will object to this, because helping Americans get jobs has no place on their agenda,<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hours I spent working to get this man elected to replace Gordon Smith, the man who voted progressive only when we didn\u2019t need him, has continued to pay dividends for Oregon and and the entire country.&#160; Now Jeff is taking on the Super Committee over jobs. 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