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Partisan Argument Slows Unemployment Benefits Extension
ABC News -- ABCs Z. Byron Wolf reports on the Partisan that is slowing an extension of unemployment insurance Yes, there is a reason for your d(c)j vu. You might be thinking that Senators overwhelmingly supported a cloture vote regarding an extension of unemployment benefits just last week. They did it again tonight. But while last week they invoked cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill, tonight they vote 85-2 to invoke cloture on a substitute amendment written by Senate Democrats. If this is how long it takes to pass a bill both parties support, imagine what will happen when the health reform bill hits the Senate floor. The Senate has been mulling over an unemployment benefits extension since the House passed its version of an unemployment...
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11.23.09 - Updated 11:11pm ET
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