Think Progress: 38 Republicans Vote to Filibuster a Deficit-Reducing Jobs Bill

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(Yes, they did! And, they still want to extend the Bush tax cuts to the top 2%--unpaid for, of course--and costing about $700 billion dollars over the next decade! Greedy, greedy, hypocrites!)

38 Senate Republicans vote to filibuster a deficit-reducing jobs bill



Today, the Senate invoked cloture on a bill that provides states with $26 billion in funding for Medicaid and to prevent mass layoffs of teachers. These two streams of funding have been added to — and then cut from — bill after bill, because conservatives objected to their cost. Initially, the bill that was voted on today added $5 billion to the deficit, but it was tweaked to include larger spending offsets. And according to the Congressional Budget Office, it now decreases the deficit by $1.3 billion over ten years through cuts to food stamps and closing corporate tax loopholes. Two Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) — voted to invoke cloture and end the ongoing filibuster. The rest of the Republican caucus, however, voted no. That’s 38 Republican senators who voted against a deficit reducing jobs bill. (Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) didn’t vote.) The Wonk Room explains how this vote clearly puts the lie to the notion that Republicans really want small spending measures to pass, but only if they’re “paid for.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/04/38-gop-filibuster/

[Phx_Dem]

1. Fuckers. They need to be called out publicly at every opportunity . . . by name,

[NightHawk63]

2. +1000000 (nt)