Senate passes $149 billion for jobless aid, tax breaks

[ProSense]

Senate passes $149 billion for jobless aid, tax breaks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate on Wednesday approved a $149 billion package of jobless aid and tax breaks as Democrats continued efforts to bring down the 9.7 percent unemployment rate before the November congressional elections.

The measure, which passed by a vote of 62 to 36, now heads to the House of Representatives, where many Democrats have pushed for more aggressive job-creation measures.

Democrats say job creation is their top priority this year as they head into an election season that could possibly cost them control of Congress.

Both chambers have now passed two job-creation bills, but they have yet to resolve their differences and finish legislation that President Barack Obama can sign into law.

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[Uzybone]

1. I remember last week the usual naysayers saying this wouldn't happen

laughing at the $15 billion package that was passed earlier.

Supposedly only $13 billion of this package is tax breaks.

[vaberella]

3. It's always the same isn't though.

I'm weary of the Senate too, but sometimes they come through.

[karynnj]

2. Nice - here is the roll call - It got 62 votes

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 2nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 4213 As Amended )
Vote Number: 48 Vote Date: March 10, 2010, 02:31 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Bill Passed
Measure Number: H.R. 4213 (Tax Extenders Act of 2009 )
Measure Title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
Vote Counts: YEAs 62
NAYs 36
Not Voting 2
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State


Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---62
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---36
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brown (R-MA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Wicker (R-MS)

Not Voting - 2
Byrd (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)

[chelsea0011]

5. No...Brown from Mass. Not surprised. I knew when the final vote

would come, he would give a no.

[Inuca]

13. But he voted for cloture, which is something n/t

[ProSense]

6. There's Ben.

Always wrong.

[Change Happens]

4. Also got rid of the 21% Medicare cuts to Docs!!! Well done Senator Reid!!!

This is awesome!

[impik]

7. Can anyone even begin to imagine where were we if Obama wasn't the president today?

[wisteria]

8. Oh, if this was a Republican bill the majority of Repubs would have voted for it. n/t

[vaberella]

10. Actually if Obama didn't win...we wouldn't have a bill. We wouldn't be talking about HRC period.

We'd probably be talking about war more. Iran would either be eliminated or we'd definitely be facing a world war. And I was always under the impression that McCain had some left over Vietnam war resentment and he wanted to take out Vietnam for the hell of it.

[Uzybone]

12. exactly...we would be talking tax cuts, new wars and border fences

[Cha]

15. Exactly..we'd be fighting more tax breaks for

mcpalin's campaign fundraisers and bombing Iran.

[Uzybone]

11. it could never be a Republican bill

only a small portion is tax cuts.

[wisteria]

9. Massachusetts had better remember that Scottie Brown voted no on creating more jobs

and helping small business.
As for Nelson-he has a screw lose somewhere.

[Cha]

14. Awesome..