Senate Fails to Extend Unemployment Benefits Before Break

Pepe Silvia

The vote failed 58-38, with 60 votes needed to break the filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) voted no in order to allow another vote on the bill. Reid expects to pass the bill after the Senate resumes on July 12, once a replacement for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) is found

if he voted yes they couldn't have another vote??

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Senate Fails to Extend Unemployment Benefits Before Break

Senate Republicans successfully filibustered a bill Wednesday night that would extend unemployment benefits for two million Americans, according to a report in The Hill. The Senate has adjourned for the Fourth of July weekend.

The vote failed 58-38, with 60 votes needed to break the filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) voted no in order to allow another vote on the bill. Reid expects to pass the bill after the Senate resumes on July 12, once a replacement for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) is found, according to The Hill. Byrd died early Monday morning.

The bill would provide $34 billion to extend unemployment benefits to Americans who have been unemployed for more than six months and lost or will soon lose their current benefits. The now watered-down bill failed to pass the Senate three times in as many weeks, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Unemployed Americans have been out of work longer than any other time in history, and 46 percent of the 15 million unemployed Americans have been so for more than six months.

The share of families with at least one unemployed member rose 4.2 percent to 9.4 million families last year, the highest number since the Labor Department began tracking them in 1994.

Senate Democrats are pushing the extension because of the dire situation facing unemployed Americans, but Republicans filibustered over concerns of deficit spending. Budget concerns did not prevent many Republicans from supporting $33 billion in additional funding for the war in Afghanistan that the Senate approved in late May. The war supplemental has stalled in the House as antiwar Democrats face-off against their moderate peers.

jg1988

so?

gimmesometruth27

Pepe Silvia wrote:

The vote failed 58-38, with 60 votes needed to break the filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) voted no in order to allow another vote on the bill. Reid expects to pass the bill after the Senate resumes on July 12, once a replacement for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) is found

if he voted yes they couldn't have another vote??

http://digg.com/d31VhUW

Senate Fails to Extend Unemployment Benefits Before Break

Senate Republicans successfully filibustered a bill Wednesday night that would extend unemployment benefits for two million Americans, according to a report in The Hill. The Senate has adjourned for the Fourth of July weekend.

The vote failed 58-38, with 60 votes needed to break the filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) voted no in order to allow another vote on the bill. Reid expects to pass the bill after the Senate resumes on July 12, once a replacement for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) is found, according to The Hill. Byrd died early Monday morning.

The bill would provide $34 billion to extend unemployment benefits to Americans who have been unemployed for more than six months and lost or will soon lose their current benefits. The now watered-down bill failed to pass the Senate three times in as many weeks, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Unemployed Americans have been out of work longer than any other time in history, and 46 percent of the 15 million unemployed Americans have been so for more than six months.

The share of families with at least one unemployed member rose 4.2 percent to 9.4 million families last year, the highest number since the Labor Department began tracking them in 1994.

Senate Democrats are pushing the extension because of the dire situation facing unemployed Americans, but Republicans filibustered over concerns of deficit spending. Budget concerns did not prevent many Republicans from supporting $33 billion in additional funding for the war in Afghanistan that the Senate approved in late May. The war supplemental has stalled in the House as antiwar Democrats face-off against their moderate peers.

so we can dump a trillion dollars in the middle east and give the pentagon $700 billion a year yet we can't extend money to people who are out of work so that they can try to make ends meet, the very same people that the military and pentagon are supposed to be "defending"??? also if all of these people lose their homes the real estate market will tank again....

StillHere

jasongoz wrote:

so?

It's so nice that some people can just say "so?"

But the sad truth of it is that many of us absolutely NEED those benefits, haven't been able to find work, have mouths to feed, a roof to keep over our family's head, and no spouse to help out with anything.

"So?" put yourself in our shoes.

No one WANTS to depend on Unemployment Insurance, but hey, we pay into it, and when we truly NEED it, it should be there for us.

I've been on so many interviews, I'm overqualified, most of the time, or someone else has come in who "better fits our needs", of course too old (read - experienced) even tho no one dares to say that but they can pay young kids a lot less than they can pay me (they figure i suppose) even tho at this point I've lowered my standards quite a bit to say the least.

NEVER in my entire life have I had trouble getting work. I have a solid work history, a great resume, a lot of accomplishments under my belt...but just like a zillion other folks, am still unemployed.

So? I can't say "so?"

I can't afford to.

That is NOT a personal attack on you J., just saying.

Peace
jo