http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/unemployment-benefits-bill-105430.html?hp=t1
now so far republican congress prefers to go home and enjoy the hoildays leaving the vote to extend the unemployment on the floor literally on the floor as they walked on it on their way home for the holidays. with no regard to what they were doing to your family and their holiday.
The Senate passed legislation Monday evening that revives expired long-term unemployment benefits for five months, sending the bill to an uncertain future in the House.
The final vote was 59-38, with several Republicans voting to support the measure. Democrats needed to muster just a bare majority to pass the bill, having narrowly cleared a series of 60-vote threshold procedural hurdles last week with the support of several deal-making republicans
Monday’s vote marked an end to a nearly four month saga in the Senate, where lawmakers at points appeared on the verge of passing the bill only to become bogged down in arcane arguments over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s denial of votes on GOP amendments to the bill. Even though senators were eventually able to reach a deal, the fight is only beginning in the House, where Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said the legislation has “serious problems” and is “unworkable.”
“We are willing to look at extending emergency unemployment insurance as long as it includes provisions to help create more private-sector jobs – but, last week, Senate Democratic Leaders ruled out adding any jobs measures at all,” said Michael Steel. “The American people are still asking, ‘where are the jobs?’ and House Republicans are focused on our jobs agenda for families and small businesses.”
code for Keystone pipeline, they are not helping the people because it's morally right if they do that they are helping themselves on the hostage holding of unemployment to get the jobs they want not the million plus Pres.'s plan offers since it was first brought up they are still sitting on it but pushing the 20,000 maybe jobs of Keystone, all this because they have finally amitted they're crap is ragedy and they do need to change "VALUES", PRINCIPLES" whatever they want to call their hateful plan for American demise.
