Sentence examples for get the stimulus through from inspiring English sources

"The tension that we're starting to see with them trying to get the stimulus through is part of the natural push-pull of the process," said Candida P. Wolff, a former White House legislative affairs director for Mr. Bush.

They were able to get the stimulus through.

Even after laying this groundwork, and with the economy in freefall, getting the stimulus through Congress was a big political lift.

The announcements, to be made in the East Room, will begin a week of efforts to get the stimulus plan through Congress.

They've probably got the votes to get the stimulus package through even without defending it to the press and to the public, but remember that this is just the first step.

The president will never get the near-term stimulus through that he wants and that the economy needs without combining it with a credible bipartisan, multiyear deficit-reduction plan like Simpson-Bowles.

The Obama stimulus was designed to get the country through the interim while all this happened.

Geithner can argue that we did not need a bigger stimulus or that it would not have been possible to get a bigger stimulus through Congress, but it is just dishonest to imply that Obama was out on a limb with a stimulus package way larger than anyone thought reasonable.

It's not clear that President Obama could have gotten a larger stimulus through Congress at the time, but it is clear that his team (presumably including Summers) badly underestimated the severity and the duration of the downturn.

His cabinet has struggled to get a stimulus package through Parliament, with the upper house under the control of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

Obama had "all but lost control of the agenda in Washington," declared Newsweek on Feb. 4 as it wondered whether he might even get a stimulus package through Congress.