The Senate comes back to work this Monday, April 12. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has scheduled a cloture vote on the current 30-day unemployment extension for Monday at 5:30PM. Next Thursday, April 15 is the earliest that a final vote on the bill can be cast due to procedural rules governing objections to the bill - unless the Senate comes to an agreement before then, which is highly unlikely given Republican opposition to the extension.
Democrats need at least one Republican vote to pass the bill in the face of heavy partisan GOP opposition. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Scott Brown (R-MA) are potential candidates to move across the aisle on a vote, although neither has confirmed their vote to date.
Amidst all the noise and typical political bickering, it's the votes that matter - watch out for next Thursday's vote.
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CONGRESS NEEDS TO ADD A TIER V!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My unemployment ran out last week. I thought I was ok because I kept hearing how Obama signed the extension in place. The extension he signed was only an extension to QUALIFY for unemployment benefits! It is NOT an extension of benefits (as in tier 5) like it read in so many articles! How misleading! So I guess me falling off the unemployment roll will make it look like the unemployment rate is going down. Multiply this by THOUSANDS/MILLIONS and the unemployment rate will really be declining soon. I wonder what the REAL unemployment rate is? Also, Obama is proving to be not so much for the average person and more for bailing out huge corporations and foreign aid. The only thing we can do is contact our representatives and let them not forget how bad it is out there and we need a Tier 5. And to think they just voted themselves a raise, YET THEY PUT THIS UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION BY WAY OF TIER 5 ON HOLD SO THAT THEY CAN GO ON THEIR EASTER VACATION!!!!!!!!! SOME WAY TO RUN A GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The HR 4213 touted as extending vital unemployment benefits through the end of this year, does NO SUCH THING. IT DOES NOT ADD 1 single week of additional Jobless benefits for anyone who has exhausted all of their benefits (the 99ers)!! All that H.R. 4213 does as far as unemployment benefits is help the shorter term unemployed. In truth it does absolutely NOTHING FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN DILIGENTLY LOOKING for a job ANY job for over two years now. The LONG TERM unemployed are the ones who need the most help.
It's a game of political chicken: Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are each gambling that the other side will look worse for the lapse. Senate Republicans blocked the Democrats' $9 billion proposal to extend the programs on an emergency basis (without a funding offset); Democrats rejected a Republican proposal to pay for the programs by raiding stimulus bill funds. Party leadership in the Senate had apparently negotiated a one-week stopgap extension with a funding offset, which Senate Republicans said House Democrats rejected.
The National Employment Law Project estimates that 212,000 people will lose eligibility for EUC benefits this week. And many more people will be told by state workforce agencies that unless Congress does something, they too will exhaust all of their benefits.
Put partisan politics aside & do what is right!
CREATE A TIER V!!!!!!
COME ON REPORTERS, LETS GET THIS STORY OUT THERE AS A HOT BUTTON FOR NEWS. PUT SOME PRESSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT!!! I WANT TO SEE THIS AS A TOP STORY AT ALL NEWS HOURS AND LETS GET THIS TOPIC SCUTINIZED AND OUT THERE AND GET CONGRESS FROM HIDING ON THIS. THEY KNOW THERES A PROBLEM. IT LIKE 'THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM' - ITS A PROBLEM THAT EVERYONE IN CONGRESS KNOWS ABOUT VERY WELL NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT FOR REASONS OF POLITICAL AGENDA, TABOO, OR THE LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote on Obama Care NO Democrats NO More Taxes NO Lies YES
Get em out of there!
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