House votes to extend unemployment benefits. (272 yes, 152 no)

[jefferson_dem]

House approves jobless benefits extension

After months of bitter partisan debate, Obama is set to sign bill later today.

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday voted to extend unemployment payments to millions of people whose benefits have lapsed as the nation suffers through a wretched job market.

President Barack Obama is set to sign the bill later today.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38362070/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

[jefferson_dem]

1. 31 House Repugs voted yes; 10 Democrats voted no.

[onehandle]

2. Good. Sign that sucker. It'll take days to weeks for states to catch up. nt

[CrownPrinceBandar]

3. The house debate was pretty entertaining...........

McDermott, Kaptur, Pelosi, Hoyer et all were lighting into the Repubs something fierce. The high point was when Jim McDermott said something like he's going to enjoy all the R's voting no and voting themselves out of office. PRICELESS!

[LWolf]

4. k&r

[niyad]

5. anybody have a list of the ten dems who voted against it?

[Recursion]

8. Right here

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll463.xml

Republicans are in italic, Democrats in plain

The Democrats who voted NAY were:
Baird
Barry
Bright
Cooper
Hill
Markey of Colorado
McIntyre
Minnick
Nye
Shuler

The Republicans who voted YEA were:
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bono Mack
Cao
Capito
Castle
Dent
Diaz-Balart (both of them)
Ehlers
Gerlach
Heller
Johnson of Illinois
Jones (is there really only one Jones in the whole House?)
LaTourette
LoBiondo
Manzullo
McCotter
Murphy, Tim
Petri
Platts
Posey
Reichert
Rogers of Michigan
Ros-Lehtinen
Smith of New Jersey
Turner
Upton
Whitfield
Young (both of them)

Not voting on our side were:
Capuano (my Congressman -- I think he's in Iraq with Deval Patrick)
Doyle
Hodes
Ortiz

[Kdillard]

6. Well done k and r.

[defendandprotect]

7. Is any of this retroactive? How long were the unemployed w/o funds???

[phleshdef]

9. My understanding is that it is in fact retroactive for people whos claims expired.

[old mark]

10. It is retroactive from the date of the last payment, sometime in June...

Sadly, this extension expires around Thanksgiving....Nov 30th, so they WILL do it again after the midterm election, just in time for christmas.

Republicans suck. Every one of them...

mark

[defendandprotect]

11. Repugs are disgusting -- Pelosi did some nice damage to them today in a talk on the floor ....

they were supporting Bush's $700+ billion tax cuts for the rich but knocked out

a lot of stuff in the unemployment legislation -- too late for "summer jobs" --

which would have helped a lot of young people, for instance.

Glad to hear it's retroactive -- we have to make sure that GOP doesn't regain anything

in November -- !!

:)

[old mark]

16. Well, I see Obama is letting the Bush tax cuts lapse, so the GOPers lose

on that one, too. plus, the waste in government bill was signed yesterday-it passed WITH GOP SUPPORT-and I think it will really help get these deficits down considerably, hurting the GOP even more in the process...

You are right - the republiocans should never again be in charge of anything..they are anti American.

mark

[defendandprotect]

17. Thanks . . . didn't know about the ...

"waste in goverenment" bill passing --

I'm watching C-span when I can -- but you still miss stuff!!

:)

[AtomicKitten]

12. Finally. I swear getting even the smallest thing done is like pulling teeth. nt

[Fearless]

13. The reason the Senate vote was so difficult, politics aside, was term durations

With a six year term, Senators can rest on their laurels and hope that people forget their unpleasant votes. The House doesn't have this ability with two year terms.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. I knew they would..and I thank them for doing so...nt

[gardenista]

15. But still no Cobra supplement extension

The unemployment check for two weeks is about the same as our COBRA payment. There are a lot of people who will lose their health insurance in the next couple of months.