2010 Unemployment Extensions - Could Slow Robert Byrd Replacement Jeopardize UI Extension Passage?

[True_Blue]

Source: Associated Content

No Replacement for the Late Senator Byrd Announced to Date and West Virginia Laws Unclear

2010 Unemployment Extensions - On June 30, cloture for the Unemployment Benefits Extension bill failed by just one vote in the Senate. Another standalone emergency UI Extension bill passed in the House the next day, but the Senate had already gone on recess for the Fourth of July holiday.

With two Republicans crossing party lines to vote for the UI Extension bill, the Democrats believed they would have had the 60 votes needed for either bill had it not been for the passing earlier that week of the late Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia). Fortunately for the Democrats, and possibly the 1.7 million jobless expected to be out of benefits as of the end of this week, the governor of West Virginia who would be appointing Sen. Byrd's replacement is also a Democrat and so is expected to appoint a Democrat - someone expected to provide that 60th vote necessary to pass the Unemployment Extension bill.

So now millions of jobless are waiting and praying for Monday to come, when the Senate will reconvene and, with an appointee in place for Byrd's seat, a UI Benefits bill can be brought to the floor of the Senate, hopefully, for the last time. Many lives are hinging on that vote. Many, already without benefits for over a month, simply cannot hold on much longer.




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[No Elephants]

1. the 99ers will not catch a break no matter what happens to this bill. What are they supposed to do?

Go homeless and eat in soup kitchens?

What in heaven's name has this country come to since FDR?

[pattmarty]

2. Two of my sons are on unemployment and have been fucked by...........

.......the Republicans. This country since st ronnie has steadily gotten more and more evil minded and just outright cruel. The goddamn republicans are sadists and the fucking Dems are JUST incompetent. We are truly fucked.

[saigon68]

3. Incompetent

And they themselves feed hungrily and gorge themselves at the public trough

[madrchsod]

4. "brother can you spare a dime"

it`s the 30`s all over again...with out an FDR