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The HillSenate Democrats are exercising caution about how many jobs will be saved or created by the $15 billion jobs bill they approved on Wednesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has said one part of the bill would produce about 240,000 jobs alone, and one of his staff members said the total package would create or save 1.3 million jobs.
But other Democrats said they aren’t sure how many jobs would be saved or created by the bill. “I don’t know the number,” said Majority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), the second-ranking Senate Democrat.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) cautioned leaders not to stick any estimates on the package, saying the depth of the 2008-2009 recession made it too difficult to offer an estimate.
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