Reid: Unemployment Benefits Extension Vote On Tuesday

[True_Blue]

Source: Huffington Post

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that the Senate would vote move forward with reauthorizing unemployment benefits on Tuesday morning, after the replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) has been sworn in.

Republicans and Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson have been preventing a final vote on the bill because of its $33 billion cost. Reid said the GOP filibuster, which has prevented more than 2.1 million people from receiving checks, is designed to crater the economy. "They're betting on failure. They think the worse the economy is come November, the better they're going to do election wise," said Reid. "Almost two million people who are long-term unemployed. These are not numbers. They are people."

Congress allowed extended benefits for people who've been out of work for longer than six months to lapse at the beginning of June. Since then Senate Democrats have repeatedly failed to muster 60 votes to overcome the deficit reduction demands of the Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and the Republican party. In the final vote just after Byrd's death at the end of June, Democrats came up just one yea short.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14/reid-unemployment-benefit_n_646252.html

[onehandle]

1. The Dems need to go for broke and shame the GOP in a big way over this.

Grandstand, Senator Reid. Grandstand.

[tilsammans]

5. Yes! Shout it from the rooftops!

Now more than ever, the GOP should be called out as The Party of No!

[defendandprotect]

2. We need to be calling and e-mailing everyone we can . . .

I got back on calling today -- half the list/issues for tomorrow --

[CrownPrinceBandar]

3. We have to keep pushing for the 99'ers.............

they are totally left out of this bill. Even if you start getting your checks again, keep calling and get the 4 MILLION 99'ers the help they desperately need.

[True_Blue]

6. Hopefully something will be done for the 99ers soon

Obama received the letter from the 99ers a couple of days ago.

' 99ers letter gets delivered to the White House Part 1: The cover outline'
http://www.examiner.com/x-45498-San-Diego-Unemployment-Examiner~y2010m7d12-99ers-letter-gets-delivered-to-the-White-House-Part-1-The-cover-outline

[Demeter]

4. Nice of Harry to Make the Time in his busy schedule

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