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Comment by Ricardo on September 5, 2009 at 3:09pm

Join - California's New Minority Outreach Networks

The California Republican Party's new minority outreach program is designed to help you connect with other minorty Republicans who share your passions and interests. By joining a Network, you're connecting directly with the Republican Party, and helping the Republican Party connect with even more people.

The Networks initiative harnesses the power of new communications tools as well as traditional grass-roots efforts to bring the Republican message to every part of our state, to help elect candidates who share our Republican values and to ensure that Republican voices are heard at the polls on ballot initiatives, bonds, propositions and proposed constitutional amendments.

Getting started is easy: just go to www.cagop.org/networks and complete the form to become linked up with others in your community — Republicans who share your interests. Enter your contact information and select the networks of interest to you. Then, you can recruit your family, friends and neighbors to join up too! Together we're bringing new faces and new voices into the Republican Party to help put Republican ideas into action.


Website: http://www.cagop.org/networks/

Comment by Ricardo on September 5, 2009 at 3:06pm

Dear Friends,

Several Indian Republican groups have launched new websites. Below are two sites that have been launched in the past few months.

http://www.iarcnational.org/

http://www.naira.org/

Comment by The few the proud "The Republicans" on February 17, 2009 at 9:01pm

The few the proud the "Republicans"

February 17, 2009

Getting to $787 Billion

After a month of wrangling, 246 House Democrats, 57 Senate Democrats and three Senate Republicans voted late last week to pass a compromise economic recovery package of spending provisions, tax cuts and aid to laid-off workers and their families. The 1,073-page bill, signed into law Monday by President Obama, contains hundreds of provisions. This is how they add up. Click the columns to sort by amount or type of spending, and see a summary table below.

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Keyword

Description

Cost ($M)
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Spending

Farming

Repairs, security improvements and rental payments at Department of Agriculture

$24
Spending

Farming

Repairs and security improvements at Agricultural Research Service

$176
Spending

Farming

Salaries for staff to modernize IT system at Farm Service Agency

$50
Spending

Farming

Funding for watershed and flood prevention projects

$290
Spending

Farming

Funding for watershed rehabilitation

$50
Spending

Farming

Loans to rural homeowners

$200
Spending

Farming

Guaranteed loans for rural community facility building

$130
Spending

Farming

Guaranteed loans for rural businesses

$150
Spending

Farming

Grants for rural waste and waste disposal

$1,380
Spending

Farming

Broadband grants to rural communities

$2,500
Spending

Farming

Oversight of Department of Agriculture spending

$26
Aid

Food

Extra money for women, infants and children (WIC) special nutrition program

$500
Aid

Food

Extra commodities for food banks

$150
Aid

Food

Adult and child day care meals and snacks

$100
Aid

Food

Crop insurance reinstatement for farmers who failed to keep up with payments, emergency loans and grants to farmers

$749
Aid

Food

13% increase in food stamp payments

$19,991
Spending

Commerce

Urban industrial core and rural economic recovery programs

$150
Spending

Commerce

Extra money for Census

$1,000
Spending

Commerce

Salaries and expenses for program to create broadband inventory map of the country

$350
Spending

Commerce

Grants to provide wireless and broadband infrastructure to communities, including public computer centers and sustainable adoption of broadband service

$4,350
Spending

Commerce

Coupons, education and consumer support for digital to analogue converter box program

$650
Spending

Commerce

Oversight of Commerce Department spending

$6
Spending

Science

National Institute of Standards and Technology work, including research into technology with high-growth potential and technology grants to small and mid-size manufacturers

$220
Spending

Science

NIST facilities construction and maintenance backlog

$360
Spending

Science

Extra money for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facilities and research

$230
Spending

Science

Extra money for NOAA satellite development including climate data sensors and modeling

$600
Spending

Justice

Grants to state and local law enforcement

$2,225
Spending

Justice

Grants to rural law enforcement

$125
Spending

Justice

Grants to law enforcement on southwest border

$40
Spending

Justice

Grants for victims compensation programs

$100
Spending

Justice

Grants for tribal law enforcement

$225
Spending

Justice

Grants for state and local law enforcement to pursue Internet sex offenders

$50
Spending

Justice

Grants to state and local law enforcement to hire extra police officers

$1,000
Spending

Justice

Grants for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs

$225
Spending

Justice

Costs of administering extra grant money

$10
Spending

Science

NASA shuttle construction

$400
Spending

Science

NASA climate research

$400
Spending

Science

NASA aeronautics research

$150
Spending

Science

NASA rebuilding of facilities damaged in 2008 floods

$50
Spending

Science

NASA spending oversight

$2
Spending

Science

National Science Foundation research

$2,500
Spending

Science

Construction of new research equipment and facilities for NSF

$400
Spending

Science

NSF education activities

$100
Spending

Science

NSF spending oversight

$2
Spending

Military

Restoration and modernization of Defense facilities in U.S. and territories

$3,840
Spending

Military

Research and development of renewable energy generation for military

$300
Spending

Military

Improvements and reparations to military medical facilities in U.S. and territories

$400
Spending

Military

Department of Defense spending oversight

$15
Spending

Outdoors

Flood control and water management construction, regulation and investigations

$4,125
Spending

Outdoors

Mississippi River and tributary construction

$375
Spending

Outdoors

Clean-up of 'brownfield' former industrial sites

$100
Spending

Outdoors

Water reclamation and reuse projects

$1,000
Spending

Energy

Home weatherization grants to low and middle-income families

$5,000
Spending

Energy

Funding for Energy Star program offering tax credits to consumers purchasing new, efficient appliances

$300
Spending

Energy

Advanced batteries manufacturing grants

$2,000
Spending

Energy

Energy efficiency grants to states and local governments

$6,300
Spending

Energy

Transport electrification grants

$400
Spending

Energy

Funding for states and local governments to buy efficient alternative fuel buses and trucks

$300
Spending

Energy

Research and development of renewable and efficient energy technology

$2,500
Spending

Energy

Loan guarantees for standard renewables

$4,000
Spending

Energy

Transmission loan guarantees

$2,000
Spending

Energy

Fossil energy research and development

$1,000
Spending

Energy

Research into low-emission coal plants

$800
Spending

Energy

Grants for industrial carbon capture and energy efficiency improvement projects

$1,520
Spending

Energy

Grants for identifying sites to store carbon dioxide emissions

$50
Spending

Energy

Grants for training and research on safe storage of carbon emission\

$20
Spending

Energy

Administration of funding program

$10
Spending

Energy

Physics research including high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences

$1,600
Spending

Energy

High-risk research into energy sources and energy efficiency

$400
Spending

Energy

Cleanup of former nuclear sites

$483
Spending

Energy

Uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning

$390
Spending

Energy

Cleanup of former nuclear defense sites

$5,127
Spending

Energy

Money for federal power marketing administrations in electric power transmission systems

$6,500
Spending

Energy

Construction and repairs for federal marketing administration

$10
Spending

Energy

Modernization of the electric grid

$4,400
Spending

Energy

Training of electric grid workers

$100
Spending

Energy

Oversight of Energy Department spending

$15
Spending

Government

Oversight of payroll tax credit and economic recovery payments

$7
Spending

Government

Treasury grants to community financial services and economic development groups

$100
Spending

Government

Construction, repair and energy alterations to federal buildings and facilities

$5,550
Spending

Government

Purchase of fuel efficient vehicles for federal fleet

$300
Spending

Government

Oversight of General Services Administration spending

$7
Aid

Government

Costs to Internal Revenue Service of providing health coverage help to workers laid off because of outsourcing overseas

$80
Spending

Government

Funding for Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board

$84
Spending

Government

Small Business Administration loans to businesses

$651
Spending

Government

Extra money for Small Business Administration disbursement of loans

$69
Spending

Government

Oversight of Small Business Administration spending

$10
Spending

Homeland security

Funding for departmental site security, IT infrastructure, furniture, fixtures and other costs for headquarters

$200
Spending

Homeland security

Oversight of Homeland Security spending

$5
Spending

Homeland security

Construction, repairs and equipment for ports of entry to the U.S.

$420
Spending

Homeland security

Purchase and deployment of non-intrusive inspection systems for Customs and Border Protection

$100
Spending

Homeland security

Tactical communications equipment for Customs and Border Protection

$60
Spending

Homeland security

Border security fencing and technology

$100
Spending

Homeland security

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement information-sharing technology

$20
Spending

Homeland security

Explosive detection systems for airports

$1,000
Spending

Homeland security

Funding for Coast Guard acquisitions and construction

$98
Spending

Homeland security

Repairing and removing bridges hazardous to marine navigation

$142
Spending

Homeland security

Grants for security upgrades to mass transit

$150
Spending

Homeland security

Grants for security upgrades to ports

$150
Spending

Homeland security

Competitive grants to upgrade state and local fire stations

$210
Aid

Homeland security

Extra emergency food and shelter funding for homeless

$100
Spending

Outdoors

Deferred maintenance on federal lands

$125
Spending

Outdoors

Priority road, bridge and trail repairs

$180
Spending

Outdoors

Wildland fire management

$15
Spending

Outdoors

Wildlife refuge and fish hatchery construction, deferred maintenance, road maintenance and energy efficient visitors centers

$280
Spending

Outdoors

National Park Service deferred maintenance

$735
Spending

Outdoors

Preservation grants for historically black colleges and universities

$15
Spending

Outdoors

Repairing facilities and equipment for U.S. Geological Survey seismic, volcano, monitoring and stream gages

$140
Spending

Outdoors

Repair of schools, detention centers, roads, bridges, housing, irrigation and dams on Indian reservations

$490
Spending

Indian reservations

Indian guaranteed loans

$10
Spending

Outdoors

Interior spending oversight

$15
Spending

Outdoors

Cleanup of hazardous and toxic waste sites

$600
Spending

Outdoors

Cleanup of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks

$200
Spending

Outdoors

Loans for communities to upgrade wastewater treatment systems and drinking water infrastructure

$6,400
Spending

Outdoors

Environmental Protection Agency spending oversight

$20
Spending

Outdoors

Renovation of forest roads, bridges and trails, remediation of abandoned mines, removal of barriers to fish and other critical habitat

$650
Spending

Outdoors

Fire hazard reduction on federal and state lands

$500
Spending

Indian reservations

Indian Health Facilities construction, maintenance and equipment

$347
Spending

Indian reservations

Indian Health Facilities sanitation construction

$68
Spending

Indian reservations

Indian Health Services IT development and deployment

$85
Spending

Arts

Smithsonian Institution

$25
Spending

Arts

Grants to fund arts projects in non-profit sector

$50
Spending

Labor

Grants to states for adult employment and training activities

$500
Spending

Labor

Grants to states for youth training, including summer jobs

$1,200
Spending

Labor

Grants to states for dislocated worker employment and training activities

$1,250
Spending

Labor

Grants to states with highest unemployment numbers for employment and training

$200
Spending

Labor

Funds to national reserve assistance for dislocated workers

$750
Spending

Labor

Training high-risk youth in construction job skills

$50
Spending

Labor

Community service program for low-income over-55s

$120
Spending

Labor

Funding for states' unemployment insurance and employment service agencies

$400
Spending

Labor

Extra funds for department to manage enforcement of labor laws

$80
Spending

Labor

Office of Job Corps construction and modernization of residential facilities for at-risk youth

$250
Spending

Labor

Department of Labor spending oversight

$6
Spending

Health and Services

Renovation and health IT purchases for community health centers

$2,000
Spending

Health and Services

Training of nurses, primary care physicians, dentists to practice in underserved communities in the National Health Service Corps

$500
Spending

Health and Services

National Institutes of Health biomedical research

$9,500
Spending

Health and Services

National Institutes of Health buildings and facilities repairs and renovations

$500
Spending

Health and Services

Funding for research comparing effectiveness of treatments funded by Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP

$1,100
Spending

Health and Services

Grants to states for childcare services for low-income working parents

$2,000
Spending

Health and Services

"Head Start" programs for low-income preschoolers

$1,000
Spending

Health and Services

"Early Head Start" programs for low-income infants

$1,100
Spending

Health and Services

Grants for community employment, food, housing and healthcare projects

$1,000
Spending

Health and Services

Grants to faith-based and community organizations

$50
Spending

Health and Services

Grants for elderly nutrition services including Meals on Wheels

$100
Spending

Health and Services

Extra money for Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

$2,000
Spending

Health and Services

Funding for community preventative health campaigns, vaccination programs, healthcare-associated infection reduction strategies

$1,000
Spending

Health and Services

Funding to improve IT security at the Department of Health and Human Services

$50
Spending

Health and Services

Oversight of Department of Health and Human Services spending

$17
Spending

Education

Funding for 'Title I' education programs for disadvantaged children

$13,000
Spending

Education

Construction funding for school districts without a local property-tax base

$100
Spending

Education

Funding for school computer and science laboratories and technology training for teachers

$650
Spending

Education

Funding for services to homeless children including meals and transportation

$70
Spending

Education

Grants for states to address teacher shortages

$200
Spending

Education

Grants for special education programs

$12,200
Spending

Education

Grants to states for vocational rehabilitation for disabled people

$540
Spending

Education

Grants to states for independent living centers and services for elderly blind people

$140
Aid

Education

Increase in Pell Grant to $5,350 in 2009 and to $5,550 in 2010, and other increases to student aid

$17,114
Aid

Education

Money to increase size of colleges' student aid funds

$60
Spending

Education

Money for colleges' work-study programs

$200
Spending

Education

Grants for teacher training and professional development

$100
Spending

Education

Funding for grants for states to create systems tracking individual student data

$250
Spending

Education

Department of Education spending oversight

$14
Spending

Volunteering

Extra money for AmeriCorps volunteer programs

$160
Spending

Volunteering

Extra money for National Service Trust volunteer programs

$40
Spending

Volunteering

Corporation for National and Community Service spending oversight

$1
Spending

Social Security

Construction of new National Computer Center for Social Security Administration

$500
Spending

Social Security

Extra money for Social Security Administration to process disability and retirement claim backlogs

$500
Spending

Social Security

Oversight of SSA spending

$2
Spending

Oversight

Oversight of economic recovery package

$25
Spending

Military

Army child development centers

$80
Spending

Military

Army "warrior transition complexes"

$100
Spending

Military

Navy and Marine Corps troop housing

$100
Spending

Military

Navy and Marine Corps child development centers

$80
Spending

Military

Navy and Marine Corps energy conservation and alternative energy projects

$100
Spending

Military

Air Force troop housing

$100
Spending

Military

Air Force child development centers

$80
Spending

Military

Defense hospital construction

$1,330
Spending

Military

Defense energy conservation investments

$120
Spending

Military

Army National Guard construction

$50
Spending

Military

Air National Guard construction

$50
Spending

Military

Army family housing construction and repairs

$38
Spending

Military

Air Force family housing construction

$97
Spending

Military

Programs for military homeowners facing mortgage problems

$555
Spending

Veterans

Improvements to Veterans Affairs benefits administration, IT and claims processing

$200
Spending

Veterans

Renovations and energy efficiency improvements to veterans medical facilities

$1,000
Spending

Veterans

Grants for construction of state extended care facilities for veterans

$150
Spending

Veterans

National Cemetery renovations and repairs

$50
Spending

Veterans

Oversight of Veterans Affairs and military spending

$1
Spending

State

Passport and training funding for State Department

$90
Spending

State

Creation of information management backup facility for State Department, funding for participation in cybersecurity program

$290
Spending

State

State Department spending oversight

$2
Spending

State

Repair and rehabilitation of flood control levees on Rio Grande, with remainder of money for IT investments at U.S. Agency for International Development

$220
Spending

Transportation

Grants for airport improvements

$1,100
Spending

Transportation

Upgrades to Federal Aviation Administration power systems, air traffic control centers and towers and airport lighting, navigation and landing equipment

$200
Spending

Transportation

Grants for highway improvements

$29,000
Spending

Transportation

Grants to Amtrak

$1,300
Spending

Transportation

Grants for capital investments in designated high-speed rail corridors

$8,000
Spending

Transportation

Public transit improvements and infrastructure investments

$8,400
Spending

Transportation

Grants for investments and improvements to small domestic shipyards

$100
Spending

Transportation

Department of Transportation spending oversight

$20
Spending

Housing

Repairs and modernization of public housing projects

$4,000
Spending

Housing

Grants to rehabilitate and improve energy efficiency on Native American housing programs

$510
Spending

Housing

Grants for community and economic development projects

$1,000
Aid

Housing

Grants for short-term help with rent and housing relocation for homeless families

$1,500
Spending

Housing

Energy efficiency retrogrades to low-income housing, including new insulation, windows and furnaces

$2,250
Spending

Housing

Funds for communities to buy and rehabilitate foreclosed and vacant properties

$2,000
Spending

Housing

Funds for building and rehabilitating low-income housing using green technology

$2,250
Spending

Housing

Grants for removing lead-based paint in low-income housing

$100
Spending

Housing

Department of Housing and Urban Development spending oversight

$15
Spending

Housing

Increase in government-sponsored mortgage provider conforming loan limits

$50
Aid

Aid to states

Aid to states to balance education budgets, prevent cutbacks and modernize schools

$40,600
Aid

Aid to states

Aid to states in form of bonus grants for meeting key performance measures in education

$5,000
Aid

Aid to states

Aid to states for public safety and critical services

$8,000
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Tax breaks for low-income housing investors

$143
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

$400 payroll tax credit for workers earning up to $75,000; married couples filing jointly get $800 for income up to $150,000

$116,199
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

Increase in earned income tax credit for working families with more than three children

$4,663
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

Increased eligibility for refundable child tax credit, with all income over $3000 qualifying

$14,830
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

Tax credit of up to $2500 for tuition and college expenses

$13,907
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

Computers and computer technology will qualify for inclusion in tax-advantaged savings plans

$6
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

A tax credit for first-time homebuyers increases from $7500 to $8000, and will not have to be repaid

$6,638
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

Taxpayers earning less than $125,000 can deduct sales and excise taxes paid on new cars

$1,684
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

$2400 of unemployment benefits will not be subject to federal income tax

$4,740
Tax provisions

Individual tax cuts

Middle-income taxpayers get an exemption from the alternative minimum tax of $46,700 for an individual and $70,950 for a married couple

$69,759
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Businesses will be able to more quickly deduct the cost of investments in plant and equipment from their taxable income

$5,074
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Businesses will be allowed to recover alternative minimum tax and research and development credits faster

$805
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Small businesses will be allowed to write-off up to $250,000 of capital expenditures in the year of acquisition

$41
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Unprofitable small businesses with annual receipts of less than $15 million can recoup taxes paid in the past five years, up from two

$947
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Companies will be allowed to defer taxes for five years on several transactions aimed at restructuring balance sheets, and repay the taxes over the following five years

$1,622
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Businesses will be able to claim a tax credit for 40% of the first $6000 of wages paid to unemployed veterans or 16-25-year-olds hired

$231
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Small businesses will be able to exclude 75% of the gain from the sale of some stock held more than five years

$829
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Taxable corporations converting into S corporations will have a 7-year holding period for assets subject to built-in gains tax, from 10 years

$415
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Restoring tougher rules on taxpayers claiming losses incurred by a company before they bought it is projected to raise money

NaN
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Some companies restructuring may not be subject to those tougher rules

$3,163
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Manufacturing facilities producing "intangible property" such as patents can qualify for industrial development bonds

$203
Tax provisions

Business tax cuts

Facilities making advanced energy property may be able to claim a new 30% investment tax credit

$1,647
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

$10 billion "new markets tax credits" will be available for 2008 and 2009

$815
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

$25 billion of bonds for investment in economic recovery zones will be created

$5,371
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

Tribal governments will have fewer requirements on their ability to issue tax-exempt bonds

$315
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

High-speed rail facilities for trains capable of going at 150 miles per hour will qualify for facility bonds

$288
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

Rules affecting state and local government bonds will be changed to improve marketability

$3,789
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

A 3% withholding on payments to government contractors will be delayed for one year

$291
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

$22 billion in new tax credit bonds for construction or repair of public schools

$9,877
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

$2.8 billion of bonds for schools working with businesses

$1,045
Tax provisions

Infrastructure tax cuts

35% credit to bondholders for infrastructure bonds, 35% refundable credit to issuers of bonds

$4,348
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

Extending by three years the placed-in-service date for renewable energy investments

$13,143
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

Investment credits in lieu of production credits for renewable energy purchases

$285
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

Removal of cap on tax credits for purchase of small wind systems

$604
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

$1.6 billion extra allocation of clean energy bonds

$578
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

$2.4 billion extra qualified energy conservation bonds

$803
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

30% cap on tax credit for energy efficiency purchases by homeowners, up to $1500 per residence

$2,034
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

Credit for purchase of residential solar, geothermal, wind and fuel cells

$268
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

50% tax credit for purchase of alternative refueling stations

$54
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

Tax credit for plug-in electric vehicle conversion

$2,002
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

Equalization of parking and transit tax-free employer benefits at $230 for 2009

$192
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

Grants to states for low-income housing projects in lieu of credits

$5
Tax provisions

Energy tax cuts

Grants to states for energy projects in lieu of credits

$69
Aid

Other tax cuts

U.S. lumber, steel and other companies can keep money they were given from Canadian and Mexican import duties

$90
Tax provisions

Individual aid

One-time payment of $250 for retirees, disabled people, SSI recipients, railroad retirees and disabled veterans

$14,225
Tax provisions

Individual aid

One-time refundable tax credit of $250 for some government retirees not eligible for social security benefits

$218
Aid

Individual aid

Two-year extension of program providing income support and training benefits for workers who lose their jobs because of outsourcing overseas

$1,600
Aid

Individual aid

Extension of jobless benefits for up to 33 weeks

$26,960
Aid

Individual aid

Increase in weekly unemployment benefits by $25

$8,800
Aid

Individual aid

Grants for states modernizing unemployment compensation coverage among low-wage, part-time and other workers

$2,975
Aid

Individual aid

Waiver on interest payments and accrual in interest on loans held by state unemployment trust funds

$1,100
Aid

Individual aid

Extension of unemployment compensation by 13 weeks for railroad workers

$21
Aid

Individual aid

Aid to states to administer extended benefits

$138
Aid

Individual aid

Aid to states for temporary assistance to needy families payments (TANF)

$2,418
Aid

Individual aid

Extra aid to states with high population group or increased poverty for TANF payments

$319
Aid

Individual aid

Extra funding for child support enforcement

$1,000
Aid

Individual aid

Costs of providing health coverage help to workers laid off because of outsourcing overseas

$457
Aid

Individual aid

65% subsidy for laid-off workers to continue paying premiums for former employer's health plan for nine months

$24,749
Aid

Healthcare

Incentive payments to hospitals and physicians who computerize medical-records systems

$17,559
Aid

Healthcare

Federal aid to states for Medicaid spending

$90,044




Totals

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the cost of carrying out the programs and tax cuts in the economic stimulus package is likely to be slightly less than the amount of money authorized by the bill.

Description

Funds allocated

Estimated cost
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Food and farming

$26,466

$26,431
Commerce, justice and science

$15,920

$15,810
Defense

$4,555

$4,531
Energy and the environment

$50,825

$50,775
Government

$6,858

$6,707
Homeland security

$2,755

$2,744
Outdoors, Indian reservations and the arts

$10,950

$10,545
Labor and volunteering, healthcare and social services, education, social security

$72,564

$71,271
Oversight

$25

$25
Military and veterans

$4,281

$4,246
Foreign relations

$602

$602
Transportation and housing

$61,795

$61,051
Aid to states

$53,600

$53,600
Tax cuts

$301,278

$288,482
Individual aid

$45,788

$58,143
Individual healthcare aid

$24,749

$24,677
Health IT

$17,559

$17,559
Aid to states for Medicaid

$90,044

$90,042

$790,614

$787,241

Comment by Ava on January 27, 2009 at 7:53pm

Very nice site listings Ricardo. What are you actually active doing/organizing ? I'd like to know what your goals are. Can you post some comments ?

Comment by Katie on December 9, 2008 at 7:33pm

Hi, I’m Katie, I’m new to Rebuild the Party, but I am so excited about Sarah Palin, and really just ready to help further the conservative agenda! I have been really active in Team Sarah, and just found this site! I’m looking for ways to get involved. Every day I mark it down on my Sarah Palin Calendar, so that at the end of the year I know I did everything I could possibly do. I just think having a calendar with a cause reminds you ever day to do something proactive!

Comment by Suzanne on November 27, 2008 at 9:49am

Well I have been giving this issue some thought lately. I agree, the GOP needs to reach out to minorities and not just to get votes. I am sure if the minorities understand the GOP platform, and realize the American Dream is the PURSUIT of happiness, many will come on board. I believe it is more important to change hearts and minds rather than pander by offering social programs like the democrats do. The democrats fail to mention that getting caught up in a system is the very thing that stiffles the pursuit to be all that you can be. I get the sense that centrists like Charlie Crist are doing just that. Pandering and promising...not educating. I do not like the direction that is going. I want minorities to join us because they agree with the basic principles of the party platform...not because they are being thrown a bone.

Comment by Caitie on November 26, 2008 at 10:24am

There are many great choices for RNC chairman, and I can't pick a favorite (the vote is not up to me so I don't stress). However it should be noted that Michael Steele is an African-American and Catholic.