The Senate is scheduled to vote today on an $838-billion economic stimulus plan, but 58% of U.S. voters say most members of Congress will not understand what is in the plan before they vote on it.
With the Senate poised to vote Tuesday on an $827-billion version of the economic recovery plan, 62% of U.S. voters want the plan to include more tax cuts and less government spending.
President Obama last Thursday night stated his belief in the need for urgent action on the economic recovery bill working its way through Congress. “If we do not move swiftly … an economy that is already in crisis will be faced with catastrophe,” he declared. Obama repeated that sentiment in his nationwide radio address on Saturday.
The majority of Americans say most members of Congress don’t pay all the taxes they owe. In fact, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 15% are confident that their elected representatives do pay the taxes they levy on others.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of American voters now view President Obama as politically liberal, including 42% who say he is Very Liberal. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 23% see him as politically moderate and just 2% see him as somewhat or very conservative.
Ten days into his presidency as the details of his historic economic rescue plan become clearer, Barack Obama still enjoys the confidence of a majority of voters that he knows how to handle the struggling U.S. economy.
U.S. voters are closely divided over whether the government should close the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of U.S. voters worry that Congress and President Obama will increase government spending too much in the next year or two, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) say Barack Obama is politically more liberal than they are, as the new president begins to tackle the country’s economic problems with a massive spending-and-tax-cut bill.
Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters favor the $825-billion economic recovery plan proposed by President Barack Obama, and nearly as many (40%) say it is Very Likely to become law in Obama’s first 100 days in office.
With Timothy Geithner’s Senate confirmation hearing scheduled to begin again today, voters are evenly divided over whether President Obama should scuttle his embattled choice for secretary of the Treasury.
On the day Barack Obama begins his presidency, nearly half of Americans (48%) believe his inauguration signals the start of a new era of race relations in the United States.
Today, it’s official: Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States.
Seventy-seven percent (77%) of U.S. voters say an opening prayer should be part of the presidential inauguration ceremony, despite an atheist’s legal effort to halt the historic practice.
Despite the woes of the Bush administration, U.S. voters like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice better than her designated successor, Hillary Clinton, but most are confident that Clinton is up to the task of being America’s chief diplomat.
Seventy-five percent (75%) of U.S. voters say they plan to watch at least some of Barack Obama’s inauguration live next week, including 28% who plan to watch it all, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Sixty-three percent (63%) of U.S. voters say it is at least somewhat likely that major legislation to improve the country will be passed during Barack Obama’s first 100 days in the White House, a strong indicator of how much voters are counting on the new administration and Congress to fix the current economic mess.
Forty five percent (45%) of U.S. voters say it is likely President-elect Obama or one of his top campaign aides was involved in the unfolding Blagojevich scandal in Illinois, including 23% who say it is Very Likely.
One-third of Illinois voters (32%) say there is no way that Barack Obama was involved in the Blagojevich corruption case as questions mount over whether an Obama adviser discussed the president-elect’s vacant Senate seat with the Illinois governor or his staff.
This past weekend, President-elect Barack Obama revealed his plan to create 2.5 million jobs in America through massive infrastructure projects including rebuilding roads and bridges, modernizing schools and developing alternative energy sources.
