Did Obama author the stimulus package?
Campaign rally, Golden, Co., Sept.16, 2008. “In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress.” –Barack Obama, Golden, Co., Sept. 16, 2008. The McCain campaign is ridiculing Obama’s claim that his economic stimulus plan was the basis for the compromise package eventually adopted by Congress and the Bush administration earlier this year. The McCainites point out that the Illinois senator did not even vote on the final package, which passed the Senate on February 7, 2008. The Facts Like his fellow Democratic presidential candidates, Barack Obama did come up with his own stimulus package to jumpstart the faltering economy. Announced in January, the $75 billion Obama plan included a proposed $250 tax cut for “workers and their families” and a $250 bonus for seniors, to be distributed via their Social Security checks. It called for an additional round of tax cuts and bonuses “if the economy
