Re: Republicans Get Shit On…Jobless Benefits Bill Goes To Obama

On 4/15/2010 8:53 PM, H&*$?%e wrote:
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> From The Associated Press, 4/15/10:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041500787_2.html?hpid=topnews
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> Senate restores $18 billion in jobless benefits
>
> By ANDREW TAYLOR
> The Associated Press
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> WASHINGTON –
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> Congress is sending President Barack Obama an $18 billion bill to
> restore unemployment benefits for people who have been out of a job
> for months and resume full Medicare payments to doctors threatened by
> a 21 percent cut.
>
> The House cleared the bill Thursday night by a 289-112 tally taken
> just two hours after it emerged from the Senate on a 59-38 vote that
> capped an unusually partisan debate.
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> The vote comes as welcome relief to hundreds of thousands of people
> who lost out on the additional weeks of benefits after exhausting
> their state-paid benefits.
>
> They will be able to reapply for long-term unemployment benefits and
> receive those checks retroactively under the legislation.
>
> Several other popular programs had also expired, including federal
> flood insurance, higher Medicare payment rates for doctors and
> generous health insurance subsidies for people who have lost their
> jobs.
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> Fewer than 1 in 3 House Republicans voted for the measure.
>
> Just three Senate Republicans did.
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> The bill also extends a program created under last year’s economic
> stimulus bill that gives unemployed people a 65 percent subsidy on
> health care premiums under the so-called COBRA program.
>
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> The topic of providing additional weeks of jobless benefits in the
> midst of bad times had been regarded as routine.
>
> But with conservative voters and tea party activists up in arms about
> the deficit, conservative Senate Republicans upset about the deficit
> have twice caused interruptions of jobless benefits and other
> programs.
>
> In February, Jim Bunning, R-Ky., single-handedly blocked an extension
> of unemployment benefits in an unsuccessful bid to force Democrats to
> pay for them.
>
> The measure passed on a 78-19 vote after Republicans were smacked by a
> public relations backlash.
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> Democrats said it was the wrong topic for Republicans to take a stand
> on the deficit after voting for tax cuts, wars and a new Medicare drug
> benefit without paying for them.

You didn’t NOTE~that the Republicans also voted against the spending
that quadrupled the DEBT.

>
> “They seem to have discovered fiscal responsibility when it comes time
> to extend unemployment benefits but not when it came to paying for tax
> cuts for the rich and the Iraq war,” said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich.

Obama already got the money needed to create jobs, if Obama created jobs
he doesn’t need UNEMPLOYMENT extended, or are you admitting Obama
created ZERO JOBS.

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> Harry