Is There Hope for the 99'ers? - Democrats to Give Jobless Benefits Another Vote Today- Please Be Praying! (250 hits)
President Obama calls on Congress to take an up-or-down vote on extending unemployment benefits and to stop the political maneuvering that keeps Americans in need of assistance in limbo. July 19, 2010.
AP - Millions of people stuck on the jobless rolls would receive an extension of unemployment benefits averaging $309 a week under a Senate bill that appears set to break free of a Republican filibuster. Democrats have stripped the unemployment insurance measure down to the bare essentials for Tuesday's vote, which is a do-over of a tally taken late last month.
Yes they (the unemployed) need a life line right now so desperately. I can't believe there are some amongst the Congress who actually think people who are capbable and have worked really want to be unemployed! Are those people mad? What is $600-800 month anyway puhleeze that's not enough to cover rent where I live! I guess we have to wait and see.
Tuesday, July 20th 2010 at 3:55PM
Jen Fad
News Alert: Extension of Jobless Benefits Clears Key Senate Hurdle Extension of Jobless Benefits Clears Key Senate Hurdle on 60-40 Vote
With the bare minimum of votes required to avoid a filibuster, the bill to extend unemployment benefits cleared the most important procedural hurdle in the Senate and advanced to a final vote and all but certain passage, expected later today. Democrats in the Senate moved ahead with the bill after an interim appointee, Carte Goodwin, was sworn in this afternoon to fill the West Virginia seat left vacant by the death of Robert C. Byrd and provide the 60th yes in a largely party-line vote. The bill is expected to be approved by the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
