Jan 28, 2009: The Stimulus bill of 2009 passed the House without any Republican votes. All 176 House Republicans (two did not vote) voted against the measure.
On February 10, the Senate voted 61-37 (with one not voting) All the Democrats voted in favor, with only three Republicans voting in favor (Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter).
However, all lawmakers took credit when the money was handed out in their districts.
The rationale for the stimulus bill comes out of the Keynesian economic tradition that maintains that government spending should be used to make up the difference created by the recession-caused drop in consumer spending.
The Stimulus Bill (aka Recovery Act) authorizes spending $787 billion over ten years and includes federal tax cuts, expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions that promote the basic well-being of individuals in need, and domestic spending in education, health care, and infrastructure, including the energy sector.
The Act also includes many ‘non-economic’ recovery related items that are either part of longer-term plans (e.g. a study of the effectiveness of medical treatments) or desired by Congress.
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