S. 2: Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2009
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S. 2: Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2009
111th Congress · introduced 2009-01-06 · Economics and Public Finance · Latest: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2009-01-06 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2009
Plain summary
Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2009 - Declares that Congress should enact, and the President should sign, legislation to improve the lives of middle class families and provide them with greater opportunity to achieve the American dream by: (1) providing middle class tax relief while making the tax laws simpler and more reliable; (2) promoting investments in the new economy and enacting policies that create good, well-paying domestic jobs, and promoting families by improving the access and affordability of child and elder care; (3) enhancing the incentives and protections to help middle class families adequately meet their needs in retirement; (4) improving programs to help families acquire the education and training to be productive participants in the modern economy; (5) restoring fairness, prosperity, and economic security for working families by ensuring workers can exercise their rights to freely choose to form a union without employer interference; and (7) removing barriers to fair pay for all workers.
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Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2009
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] · 18 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-111s2.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/111/s>
Record fed-us-cong111-s2 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111