Extension of Unemployment Benefits Fails: The Johns are Absent [View All]

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Extension of unemployment benefits fails by two votes in the senate while the Johns campaign.
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When the bill reached the U.S. Senate this week, it was defeated by only two votes. Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole wisely cast her vote to extend benefits. But Democratic Sen. John Edwards, according to his press spokesman, "was 1,000 miles away'' on the campaign trail (as was Sen. John Kerry).

Yet Edwards has made jobs and the plight of "regular people" the centerpiece of his presidential stump speeches. If he and Kerry had returned to Washington, their votes could have made a difference.

Maybe this is another one of those issues on which we are supposed to "read between the lines."

(on edit, added link: http://www.news-record.com/news/opinions/1_unemployment_022804.htm)