A Looming Vote to Extend Unemployment Insurance?

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Just pass the extension already!! so many people are losing their homes, going hungry,getting their lights shut of!!. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY!!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/stop-the-senat…

Gee – FINALLY someone gave up on the idea of “unanimous consent”!!! What's the point of holding the majority if you don't use it on important issues?? Cloture should have been used a month ago.

All we can do, even if they get something passed today, is hope this bill isn't stalled this long again when it goes back to the House for approval.

This extension is crucial to millions of Americans, and our Republican Senators seem not to care at all. What I don't understand is how can they even think that this is not important. What will it take to get the message across to them that we can't take anymore. There are 7 applicants to every job posted in the country which means at least 6 people per job will not get hired. What are we supposed to do when the unemployed outnumber jobs 7 to 1. They need to get their heads out of their butts and realize people are crashing here and it is all their fault. I suggest they take a pay cut as millions have done to help fund this extension. Let them manage on less money as all of America has had to do. And they should also pay for their own healthcare. I as a taxpayer am sick of paying their bills, when I cannot even pay for 1 trip to a doctor for my family. Something very wrong going on on Capitol Hill and the people should wake up and demand something be done about the waste of money on these so called public servants.

Republicans are a bunch of retards! They have held this up far to long. Like a bunch of whiney little babies that can't have their way. The GOP stinks to high heaven.

Where is the President on this issue? He talks a smooth game then hides on an issue that's hurting American families. So concerned over his damn obsession with “Obamacare” Doesn't he realize we have NO damn healthcare? All of these politicians including the president can give a rats ass about who put them in office. They don't know what it's like to eat one meal a day and freeze in your own damn house. Thanksgiving and Christmas? I'll be lucky to keep my car. Now they want to hang ammendments on this further for yet another month of debates? Our government sucks. We need a whole new mindset. Party politics have hurt and corupted this country for too long yet people complain then sit on their asses. I want to WORK collecting unemployment sucks but what other choice do we have. Bring the millions of jobs back that they allow get away to Asia or shut your asses up and pass this damn bill TODAY !

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And to think a senator wants OBAMA BIN LADEN to investigate the BCS college bowl championship??? like he don't have a country to straighten out like he said he was going to before he got elected. LIES LIES LIES…….wait maybe he needs to pick his final four teams again??? he is a f ing joke!!!!! ammendments that have nothing to do with unemployment? another joke!!! we all must remember this come election time and vote to have these commy bastards take from office and live amongst us common folk.

This issue should be address by its self. Why are they trying to hide other stuff in an unemployment bill. This should be stopped, people who are starving and freezing need to he helped first. Well I guess they thing when election time comes we will forget about the help we got from the people in office now. Believe me they will see how it feels to lose a job when they are NOT RE-ELECTED!

Its time to take America back into the hands of the voters….

We are always out there as a country helping everybody out, but what about the Americans here who are needing help? I have went for interview on the experience I have and I cant even get a job on what I have been doing for years. It's a bunch of crap, and we are out there helping out everything but needs to be done now!

I hope people dont forget!! they deserve NO MERCY even If/when the bill passes!!
After watching c-span the house/senate no wonder nothing gets done!
3 mins/ yeild back time/ reserve time.. introduce an amendment to amendment,then another amendment to that amendment….oh look there right back were they started!!!
closed door meetings,schedule a motion to hear the current motion on the first amendment,to vote on the second amendment and put the motion on hold till next week to hear another amendment…etc….etc…etc……….WTF what a terrible system to pass laws…
AMENDMENT= Another way of saying someone has another 2 cents to add to a bill before its final!!!!
They need to make a law that there can be no partisan closed door meetings and make all congress persons stay in the room and they cant come out till they agree on the whole bill (all bills) and its ready to pass!!!
They all want there turn to sit in the chair and pound the gavel!! frkn children!!

Now they are going to wait until next Tuesday for a, “procedure,” vote. I'm fed up!

Iv'e never voted for a Democrat in my life, but thats all going to change. I'm letting my Republican senator, the Senate Leadership, and Governor Crist know that I will no longer vote Republican, and I will promote the Democratic candidate.

Have fun running for the Senate Governor Crist. Nearly 100,000 pissed off Florida citizens, and more added every day, their friends and family members are a huge motivated voting block. Getting kicked in the nuts and stabbed in the tends to piss people off.

I blame both sides.

Republicans for blocking this and adding unrelated amendments. And Democrats for letting this linger. Darn it the Dems have 60 votes who cares what the Republicans want use the majority and pass the bill.

I am one of the thousands upon thousands who are out of work and have benefits running out. I have submitted dozens of resumes over the last year and have lowered and lowered and lowered my expectations to the point that I would take a job at Safeway if one were offered. So So So frustrated.

I have an MBA, 20 years experience in my industry and am told time and time again that I am over qualified. I don't know what to do anymore.

You need to help American people, let the others help their own

What can be more urgent? Taking care of your own people or sending money to oversea like previous administration? I was once a loyal republican. But after seeing Sr. Bush was so igorant on recession then, I switched. Republicans need to know, once people making switch, it takes mountain to move them back to their camp again.

If you are taking the time to contact your Congress person about this, be certain to tell them that 2010 is just around the corner and they might as well address that issue with this bill now, or we will be going through this same mess in another couple of months or so. This bill as it is, addresses only those whose benefits run out before the end of this year. If you are so unfortuanate that maybe your intital benefits, or any extensions you may be on at the time, run out say January 3rd (or after), you are done for because you cannot apply any futher extensions (even though they were previously approved by congress) because the possible initiation date of all of them ends with 2009. In other words, people who became unemployed after around mid-June 2009, currently will fall into a hole with no ability to begin further extensions in 2010 without the proper legislation that addresses 2010 and beyond.

They voted for money to run the senate and the house and for pay rise and got it and did worry about where the money is coming from

Where can I find out voted against the unemployment email me at frankzig@gmail.com
Or the results of complete vote
thanks

What does one thing have to do with another? unemployment is unemployment and tax credit is tax credit.
Pass the Bill for unemployment then move on to the tax credit!! EVERYDAY PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES AND GOING HUNGRY WHILE THERE SURE WAS NOT A WAIT TO VOTE ON GIVING THEIR SELFS A RAISE!!

WE SHOULD VOTE OUT ALL THE GOP SENATORS….THEY DONT CARE ABOUT THE NEEDY…

UR RIGHT

ARE YOU KIDDING WITH THE TAG ALONGS FOR THIS BILL TO PASS???
I will NEVER vote Republican again. COME ON PRESIDENT OBAMA, HELP US! GET THESE REPUBLICANS TO PASS THIS BEFORE WE ALL STARVE AND ARE HOMELESS! WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU!!!!!!

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HAVE A HEART. I HAVE NO MONEY WHAT SO EVER…CANT FIND A JOB AT ALL DOING ANYTHING. I RELY ON MY BENEFITS TO FEED MY CHILDREN. I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANYTHING IN 2 WEEKS AND I DONT THINK I WILL SURVIVE ANY LONGER WITHOUT THIS EXTENSION BEING PASSED ASAP….PLEASE HAVE A HEART

Imagine, they couldn't get it done this week because of yada yada.
So Maybeeee next week on Tuesday, or soon…..real soon.
Then another week cause Obama has to sign it. Hope he's available.
Then the states have to implement the program. Send out a letter. Confirm your eligibility. Program the computers etc.
Mine, and I sure I'm not alone benefits ran out the last week of of September.
Senators. You know your going to pass it because you know you have to pass it.
You could have acted quickly, been passionate, and truly concerned with the agonizing situation the American people suddenly find themselves in.
Stop the tomfoolery and “Get er done”

These “people” are monsters who deserve to lose everything and actually have to work for a living. They are so full of bs they should be wearing diapers. And where is our great president urging them to act. He's busy picking out his wardrobe.

Minnesota just dropped 7 weeks of unemployment benefits,,so I dought this S 1647 bill will be passed,otherwise Minnesota UI wouldnt have reduced the extension yet,,Somebody in Minnesota knows this bill delay is true,and wont be passed,Good Luck to the 3500 people that just got screwed,,also that unemployment figure of 7.3% is such bullxxxx,its not even funny.there is so many unreported job seekers in minnesota

The GOP is up to their dirty political games.The nation has the worst unemployment rates in history,we will remember the GOP,in election time,we are tried of the DO NOTHING GROUP.The Democrates have to force this in the Senate and get the needed votes.

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This is what the Republicans want:
I drive by the homeless sleeping on
the cold dark street
Like bodies in an open grave
Underneath the old neon sign
That used to read
Jesus Saves
A mile away live the rich folks
and i see how there living it up
While the poor they eat hand to mouth
The rich is drinking from the golden cup
And it just makes me wonder
Why so many loose,so few win
Poison(Give me something to believe in)
This is the way they want it so they feel superior to everyone else.These are elected individuals who dont really need a salary as it takes money to be in office.
NEXT ELECTION LETS TELL THEM HAT THE “WIND OF CHANGE”IS COMING THEIR WAY.

f-these lowlife republican a-holes they care for nothing that cant make them money…death to thier shity party!

maybe the GOP should be unemployed… we can stall their benefits… remember this when you watch trashy people like glenn beck and rush limpbaugh…. along with fox news…. they trick the repubs are trying to pull is to defer the insurance which could be continual to the one time stimulus to make sure that mr obama doesn't make your benefits socialized… but if the unemployment rate stays the same as canada has in the last 20yrs., then these are the numbers we are realistically given as a rate… . 10% is a natural rate of unemployment, 90% of it works…what else can you ask for… they should get use to it.

maybe the GOP should be unemployed… we can stall their benefits… remember this when you watch trashy people like glenn beck and rush limpbaugh…. along with fox news…. they trick the repubs are trying to pull is to defer the insurance which could be continual to the one time stimulus to make sure that mr obama doesn't make your benefits socialized… but if the unemployment rate stays the same as canada has in the last 20yrs., then these are the numbers we are realistically given as a rate… . 10% is a natural rate of unemployment, 90% of it works…what else can you ask for… they should get use to it.

Well it would be REAL nice, if the republicans (who seem not to be affected by unemployment) realized that some of us are on the verge of homelessness without an extension of benefits effective a month ago!

How about we all contact them and bombard them with letters and emails…I have done so but we need more…contact your senators and let them know how you feel. This link will lead you directly to them. http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_informati…

The reason the unemployment rate is artifically low is no one tells those of us cut off from benefits to keep reporting. They don't want the world to know how messed up it is here in the “land of plenty”. That's why Barack gets away with accusing us of having “finally, just given up looking for work”.

Let's (figuratively) blow up the system from within! They don't want anyone to know how bad things really are here so they don't mention that if you want to be counted in the number of job seekers, unable to find work KEEP REPORTING YOUR UNEMPLOYED STATUS!!!!!

Call, fax, submit internet forms or however your state reports, ON YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED DAY.

BLOW UP THE SYSTEM FROM WITHIN (figuratively – NO VIOLENCE). The national unemployment rate is probably closer 20%. If we keep reporting, officially certifying our status, we can prove it to those other middle class Americans who think they are safe. When these people (doing the work of 2 other, laid off people) take a second look and they realize they are working excessive hours, sacrificing family & personal needs to serve corporate interests and destroy the middle class, they might stop, unless they are selfish fools.

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If you are working more hours because your slave-master banished your neighbors to a life of poverty and didn't give you their salary, STOP. Work your 40 hours and LEAVE. When they complain, tell them the work load justifies calling-back those terminated for “lack of work”. If you are on salary and they demand excessive hours, record your work time and calculate your hourly rate. If it is below minimum wage, contact your State Consumer Services Department and report them. If they threaton to make you one of the unemployed masses for speaking up, find a way to do your personal work during the excessive UPAID hours without being detected.

I don't suggest any employee/wage-slave do anything to harm their wage master. I suggest they protect themselves from the Corporate Abuse leading to increased corporate profit at the expense of the middle class life style, before it is too late.

I have been watching Fox News since 9/11 now I just watch certain shows and topics/guest that im interested in. I have come to realize that unless your blonde hair blue eyes, or pretty you can't be on fox, with the exception of Greta, Jaun williams,etc so they can't be accused of being a racist organization,and everyone of them has a book,books to promote, bret bier, shepard smith,Oriely, cavuto,beck,hannity.. and all there guest alike etc…
they all say we need to defend the constitution,but none of them would be for the extension!

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It is important that we all put pressure on the Senators now! Tomorrow 10/27/09 is the vote. Everyone please contact Senators(especially Mitch McConnell (Ky), Jon Kyl (Az), Harry Reid (Nv) and John Isakson (Ga.)) and demand they pass this bill ASAP!!

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Yes, the healthcare issue is important…WHAT ABOUT THE SENATE VOTE FOR EXTENSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS??????? Supposedly scheduled for 5:30 p.m. tonite…why is no one covering this issue????
Would we all prefer JOBS..YES! However in the meantime, 7,000 people daily are losing their ability to keep their heads above water…utilities are being shut off, agreements made with mortgage companies are unable to be honored? How many foreclosures, children not having food on the table, elevated suicide rates, and desperate people hitting rock bottom will it take for the Senate to HELP US PLEASE! ASAP.

PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS MATTER.. THE SENATE NEED TO VOTE EXTEND THESE BENEFITS FOR US!!! ITS VERY HARD OUT HERE LOOKING FOR WORK AND NO ONE IS NOT HIRING. I AM IN SCHOOL FULL TIME AND INTERNSHIP ! ALSO I AM LOOKING FOR WORK ITS VERY HARD . PLEASEEEE DO SOMETHING ASAP !

somebody should fire the sen. and then tell them they can not collect…..pass the damn bill people are starving and not able to pay the rent or mortg. what the hell is wrong with these people????????????????/

Well another step closer, bill to proceed without any further delay to a vote on the extension bill passed 87-13…now it has to be scheduled for the actual vote to make it law( final). 13 politicians voted no!! c-span2 might have the names,they just did a roll-call vote.. I or No…
Actually Rep Kyle (AZ) voted yes, but see if he still votes yes to make it law..hmm he's still blows…
I aint doing no happy dance yet!!
I wonder why couldn' they just jump right into the final vote right there while all the politicians are present…??
no they have to reschedule to come back and vote,sounds like a waste of more time…oh well

They are suppose to vote on the bill tomorrow after 9:30 am C-span2. hopefully it will pass and be signed by next week!

This just in: The senate has adjourned til tomorrow, to vote on the UI extension then. After working so hard all day making sure the next district judge of West Virginia was voted in, oh, and then closing for the day to vote on this Very Important issue effecting us all tomorrow. That's it folks. Wow, I want that kind of job…..

if you read my previous comments they did have the extension vote today,so the can vote tomorrow to pass into law! 1 more vote tomorrow..then back to house & signed..

the “nos” (13):

Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY]
Sen. Christopher Bond [R, MO]
Sen. Jim Bunning [R, KY]
Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK]
Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX]
Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY]
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC]
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, UT]
Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK]
Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL]
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA]
Sen. Roger Wicker [R, MS]

Please, remember this folks, next time voting for senators start up in your state again.

if you go on the nys dept labor facebook there is also some details and hope,it is sickening to think of players making so much money they cant spend when we cant get our benefits extended and small jobs/we need a charity the jobless

You know 'HOMELESSNESS' is an issue our country has not truly dealt with. This vote is playing with people's lives. No homes, no taxes; no money, no taxes. No taxes paid: Hummm, less government. It is the responsibility of our 'leaders' to help make us all flourish. I don't think back to basics was meant as: start from the bottom.

everyone Go to the newer blog upper left link on this page….

“Senate Advances Bill Extending Unemployment Benefits”

And check the latest links

Wah tthe heck is going on with these idiots?

If you really want to send the message, quit paying federal taxes.

Just staple an IOU to your next federal tax return and add the message that “My family is still debating on whether to pay this. We should have an answer in about 82 working days (due to the senate only working two days a week, this roughly equates to 6 months). I am sure you UNDERSTAND the importance of making a correct decision in the best interests of everyone involved for something as important as this.”

ditto…

ditto…

I really do not care were you get the money from, you can bail out every company that needs it in the world, get off your butts and start doing something for the American people. Since you can not seem to create any jobs in the United States the least you can do is pass the extension for unemployment. Health care does me no good if I do not have a job and would not beable to pay for any means of getting to a doctor. Open your eyes in D.C. and look around not overseas WE NEED THE HELP HERE IN THE U.S.A……….

Mitch is done in 2010

Kyl and Mitch for President.

Today 11/02/2009, I became one of the 7000 americans that exhusted their unemployment benefits for today. I live in Michigan with no local jobs and double digit unemployment. Now I can apply for welfare and watch as my cars and home are taken away slowly.

I seen all your dumb A$$ comments on the previous story. Let me tell you that it is the republicans that screwed up this economy and it all started with Reagen and his trickle down economics. Then you have the old man Bush who started the nafta contract. Then you had Clinton who left the economy in a good state and even had a surplus. Then little coke head alcoholic Bush comes along and messes everything up with the economy, spends money like their is no tomorrow, starts a war with Iraq over what we all know was a bold faced lie about WMD's and hides the truth about why we went to war with Iraq. The reason he had our military invade Iraq is because he was getting even with Saddam because Saddam had a failed attempt to kill the old man Bush. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Earlier when they were on the hunt for BinLaden they had his family here after 9/11 and let them leave the country and even provided the transportation for the family. Now with all the jobs that went overseas and your draft dodging coke head alcoholic Bush friend doing absolutely nothing about illegal immigration coming here taking jobs away from americans and other jobs that left the country for cheaper slave wage labor the economy was going down hill fast. Old man Bush was so out of touch with reality and the economy he lost his job. The coke head Bush was out of touch with the economy also and he even denied at one point that there was a problem. Yet still he let the illegal immigrants come in and a lot of them displaced American workers in the construction industry. They were working for slave labor in this country because it was better than they could get in their own country. The illegal immigrants work for slave wages because if they have a one bedroom apartment they will have about 15 people living their so they could easily pay the rent. Then you have the contractors paying them off the books so they are not paying income taxes or social security taxes. Then when they get sick they go to the hospital and get free medical care, The hospital bill goes unpaid and then is picked up by the tax payers. Then you have a person like yourself telling people get off their fat lazy butts and get a job when in fact their are no jobs and the reason their are no jobs is because of people like your friend the coke head draft dodging alcoholic are out of touch with reality. My guess is that your probably a coke head alcoholic also and quite possibly be a draft dodger as well. So why don't you go crawl back in your cave where you came from and shut the F up.

I think you need to double up on your medication and take the flowers out of your hair. If you had your way, the radical muslims would be running the country. I bet you have sexual fantasies when you see Nancy P. Get a life, another big fat lazy liberal idiot waiting for another entitlement program. Best thing you could do is emulate an ostrich. SMOOCHES, JOHNSON, GO GOP

i agree it all started with the cowboy ,he should've stayed on the ranch and trickled on his own”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"'

A village in Texas got their idiot back though…..do a search of George P. Bush, Jeb's son

I was against NAFTA all the way. but it was Clinton who signed it into law. under duress. I agree the Repubs are spoiled little rich kids just like some that go to private school. But there are some parents that slave 2- 3 jobs if they are lucky to get just one job to put their kids in private school for a better education. BTW you want the best drugs talk to drug dealer in private school, the Repubs have lost touch with this society but it will come back and haunt them in the future.

GOP= Gods Of Penis

A village in Texas got their idiot back though…..do a search of George P. Bush, aka half breed , Jeb's son

I was against NAFTA all the way. but it was Clinton who signed it into law. under duress. I agree the Repubs are spoiled little rich kids just like some that go to private school. But there are some parents that slave 2- 3 jobs if they are lucky to get just one job to put their kids in private school for a better education. BTW you want the best drugs talk to drug dealer in private school, the Repubs have lost touch with this society but it will come back and haunt them in the future.

GOP= Gods Of Penis

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I think you need to double up on your medication and take the flowers out of your hair. If you had your way the radical muslims would be running the country. I bet you have sexual fantasies when you see Nancy P. Get a life, another big fat lazy liberal idiot waiting for another entitlement program.

I seen all your dumb A$$ comments on the previous story. Let me tell you that it is the republicans that screwed up this economy and it all started with Reagen and his trickle down economics.

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I seen all your dumb A$$ comments on the previous story. Let me tell you that it is the republicans that screwed up this economy and it all started with Reagen and his trickle down economics.

I seen all your dumb A$$ comments on the previous story. Let me tell you that it is the republicans that screwed up this economy and it all started with Reagen and his trickle down economics.

gov't should extend it to 1 full year at least!

The Democrats have to do two things. Put people to work, even if it means another WPA. Put people to

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