Posted by Bill Whalen at 12:00 am on Apr 21, 2006 Comments Off on The Countdown Is On
Some rumblings and grumbling, as the President’s visit to
Stanford is a few hours away.
1) Good article in this morning’s Chronicle
_http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/21/BUGGKICDG41.DTL_
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/21/BUGGKICDG41.DTL)
on the various tech programs floating around in Congress. Watch and
see if Reeps and Dems can come together and hammer out a deal that
includes more federal spending for math and science, visas for
foreign tech workers, and making permanent the federal R&D tax
credit.
2) Such a deal underscores an urgent White House need: the
President calling a meeting with congressional leaders and
delivering a lecture that falls somewhere between Robert DeNiro
swinging a baseball bat Moe Howard slapping around Larry and Curly.
The clock’s ticking at the both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to get
something before the midterm elections and the topic’s are stacking
up: tax cuts, immigration reform. The President shouldn’t let tech
fall between the cracks.
3) The President is at Cisco in a short while. Last month,
Treasury… Read More