Senator Scott Brown ........

From Cape Cod Today [in case you missed it]:

Senator Scott Brown just voted to cut 17,100 jobs in Massachusetts

Republican Plan Defeated in the Senate Today Aimed to Slash Education, Cancer Research Instead of Cutting Corporate Welfare and Would Have Brought Economic Recovery to a Grinding Halt

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) stood with Corporate America over middle-class families today, voting for a funding bill that would slash 17,100 jobs in Massachusetts according to a recent study by the U.S. Senate’s Democratic Policy Committee. Nationwide, the study found that the plan to fund government through September 2011, which leaves in place billions in corporate welfare and tax loopholes for billionaires, would cost 700,000 American jobs. Fortunately, the measure was defeated in the Senate by a 44-56 margin.

Numerous nonpartisan economic experts, including a team from Goldman Sachs, have similarly found that the plan approved by virtually every House Republican and no Democrats in the dead of night on February 19, would bring our fragile economic recovery to a screeching halt. Moody's chief economist and former McCain adviser Mark Zandi projected that the House Republican proposal would cut real GDP growth by 0.5 percent in 2011 and 0.2 percent in 2012. That, in turn, would lead to 400,000 fewer jobs being created than expected by the end of this year and a total of 700,000 fewer jobs by the end of 2012.

And a recent Goldman Sachs analysis also concluded that Republicans' 2011 cuts would be detrimental to the economic recovery. The House GOP's plan, the analysis found, could cut the nation's economic growth by 1.5 percent to 2 percent during the second and third quarters of this year.

Read the Americans United story here.