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Clyburn gets schools in stimulus |
WASHINGTON — The $787 billion economic-stimulus recovery plan pushed by President Barack Obama and moving toward final passage in the Senate late Friday is worth almost $8 billion to South Carolina for tax cuts, low-income health care, school modernization and highway construction.The modified bill passed the House earlier Friday without support from any Republicans despite revisions that added tax cuts and reduced the plan’s overall cost.House Budget Committee chairman John Spratt joined 245 other Democrats in voting for legislation that melded separate bills the House and Senate passed earlier.House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of Columbia played a key role in reshaping the package, but he left before the vote to fly to Columbia for his daughter’s wedding Friday evening.South Carolina’s four Republican representatives voted against the measure, along with 179 other GOP lawmakers.
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