Movement on Unemployment Benefit Extension?
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:58 am
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) threatened to hold a midnight vote yesterday to proceed to long-delayed legislation extending unemployment insurance for up to 20 weeks. That vote didn’t happen, but it might not have to. Reid’s office said this morning that party leaders “should be able” to reach agreement to skip that step and move the bill directly to the floor. No timeline was mentioned.
As we described yesterday, proceeding to a bill is not the same thing as passing a bill, and there could be a long way to go even after the legislation reaches the Senate floor.
Although party leaders reached a tentative agreement yesterday on the home-buyer tax credit amendment, there’s no indication that the ACORN, immigration and funding disagreements are any closer to resolution today than they were three weeks ago when Republicans first blocked the bill’s passage.
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[...] WashingtonIndependent has the latest and it seems like Reid is still spittin into the wind: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) threatened to hold a midnight vote yesterday to proceed to long-delayed legislation extending unemployment insurance for up to 20 weeks. That vote didn’t happen, but it might not have to. Reid’s office said this morning that party leaders “should be able” to reach agreement to skip that step and move the bill directly to the floor. No timeline was mentioned. [...]
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 11:32 am
I absolutely loathe republicans. I always knew they only cared about the wealthy.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 11:36 am
I didn't see republicans fillibustering the bank bail-outs. They defend the executive pay of millions of dollars to the crooks that stole from the taxpayers
on Wall Street. they just authorized another 130 BILLION for Afghanistan and Iraq wArs. They are building hospitals and schools and providing FREE HEALTHCARE FOR IRAQIS AND AFGHANS. We just sent another 7 BILLION TO PAKISTAN !! They voted themselves raises. YET AMERICANS ARE
STARVING, HOMELESS AND FORGOTTEN!! Republicans must pay the price for this heartless, gutless holding of hostage the suffering unemployed….most of whom are unemployed due to the WALL STREET GREEDY BAST*RDS WHO ARE STILL STEALING US BLIND !!!!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 11:42 am
They passed their tax credit of $15,000 for couples who make up to $300,000
per year !!! Just like the cash for clunkers gave money to people who could afford a new car! What about us who are losing their car, home and have NO WAY TO FED FAMILY ??!! We are at the point now where even if this unemployment extension passes soon it will not arrive to the unemployed before Thanksgiving.
What will we have to be thankful for? What are our troops fighting for? FREEDOM???!!! FREEDOM TO DO WHAT ???!!! Starve while no one helps or cares? There is NO FOOD at the food banks and churches they send us to for aid. There are NO JOBS!!!! What do they want?? Us to turn to crime??!!
These republicans will need all those guns they love so much!! Desperate people do desperate things!! If you don't care about the homeless and hungry in America, don't be surprised when they start behaving like animals and start looking for prey !!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 11:42 am
Yippee Kay Yay. Maybe we will have the unemployment extension passed by Christmas. Happy holidays to the “Say No” Republicans who don't care about suffering middle class Americans.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 11:47 am
I wonder how many of you dummies who voted republican are out of benefits?
I wonder how many who voted republican have no health insurance or healthcare? I wonder how many who voted republican see how their party is only going to bat for executive pay, insurance companies, oil companies, etc.
When will the people in this country wake up and quit allowing these scum to stay in office. They are sending money hand over fist to foreign countries and the military. Worry about America!! Not the rest of the world's needs!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 11:54 am
It just amazes me that everyday i read about another family going hungry and no one cares. It's funny because creditors and lenders no exactly what is going on and they still threaten to take what you have and cut you off. Even landlords want to evicted due to non-payment. But all the while everyone knows what ia going on. It saddens me and breaks my heart. I wish I could hit the lottery and help some of these families. I know its hard being a mother of 4 and unemployed myself, but just do what you can to stay a float.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 11:55 am
those good-for-nothing, gutless, heartless, disgusting, idiotic REPUBLICAN SENATORS! I sure hope you get voted out next mid-term, become unemployed, homeless, and beaten down, then you'll taste the flavors of what we, the unemployed and near-destitute, are experiencing and living through. Perhaps then your hearts may gain a tiny bit of compassion, you ugly REPUBLICAN SENATORS. Had it not for this nation to be a democracy, you'll be voted out, locked out, thrown into the heaps of crooks and corrupted bastards that you are. Good riddence you gang of REPUBLICAN SENATORS, all a dozen of you, that are blocking this bill passage, I sure you rot in hell…and then some.
Signed,
Fooke Seni Toors
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Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
Spoken like true socialists…..if you had any sense you would want the unemployment extension paid for from the TARP money and not through taxing small businesses….then again socialists want everything handle by their nanny..
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
I predict all that are delaying the unemployment bill will die of a slow painful cancer, and may your children and other love ones die too!!
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Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
This extension is to late to help many of us like myself. This extension is not going to pay retroactively, which means those of us that have been out of benefits and work the last 7-9 weeks will not be able to catch up on the bills or housing payments. We are headed to the streets and the measily $300 we'll start receiving again if were luck before christmas will not keep the lights on. The senate has failed miserably and I think they should all be voted out. Not just the heartless republicans, but the Democrats as well for not forcing the vote the very first time they blocked the motion for the bill. There is no point to having majority if you are to scared who you will make angry if you use it. Our ancestors would be ashamed to call themselves americans if they heard what the government is allowing to happen to their people.
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[...] WashingtonIndependent has the latest and it seems like Reid is still spittin into the wind: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) threatened to hold a midnight vote yesterday to proceed to long-delayed legislation extending unemployment insurance for up to 20 weeks. That vote didn’t happen, but it might not have to. Reid’s office said this morning that party leaders “should be able” to reach agreement to skip that step and move the bill directly to the floor. No timeline was mentioned. [...]
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
The conservative mindset in a nutshell: Who would Jesus tell to go f#ck themselves?
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
If you call the republican leader's office they hang up on you if you start to tell them to pass the unemployment extension. I wish I were in Washington. I would love to slap the taste right out of Mitch MConnell's mouth!! Him and Kyl and Hatch and the rest of the republican obstructuionists!!
My nephew just went to Afghanistan! For what??! To defend this pathetic
excuse for a government?
It certainly is not to defend America!! America is under siege and attack right now!!! By the rich !! FLEECE AMERICA SOME MORE YOU BAST*RDS!!!
$15,0000 tax credit for multiple home purchases for $300,000 a year couples.
ZERO FOR HOMELESS AND HUNGRY!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
please say that this “non existent” extension will be retroactive, some are saying it wont be, and my mortgage and Im sure many others are depending on it…..
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
Nope, so far its been said it will not be retroactive, thats why I posted saying its to late for many of us.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
sorry …. it's not retroactive. They just let us keep sliding off a cliff.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
It's not just the Republicans at fault here. The Dems have the majority and could ram this down their throats so fast they wouldn't know what hit them – but they're not. I hold both parties to blame – in the next 6 years I'll be voting out any incumbent.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:34 pm
Nope. Any retroactive payments are “back dated” to the date of Presidential signature. While it may take a month or more to actually receive any money, once Pres. Obama signs it, the weeks start counting again. If you phone your claim in each week afterward, you should get them.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
thank youf ro the reply derek, thats terrible news!! :(
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
Republicans only care about fetuses. Once you're born , you 're on your own. No welfare, no food stamps, no unemployment benefits no education money.
The list of aid they are opposed to for the poor is LOOOOOOOONG.
But they are right there fighting the fight for executive pay, oil company tax breaks, endless money for wars ( and they profit/ Halliburon?)
They loved the bail outs. Didn't see them blocking that money did ya?
They hold hungry, desperate Americans hostage for their pork projects and political posturing !!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
If they are anything like myself i've been without payments for 7 weeks now and live in Michigan, Flint none the less where unemployment is well above 20%. That even when the payments start coming it wont be in time. I hope they all sleep well at night in their big warm beds with the heat on and their bellies full of food.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
Where is Obama on this??? Screw Pakistan and Afghanistan!!! We are building them schools and hospitals there for FREE HEALTHCARE!!! What about us?
We have NO LIMIT on money spent for other countries! We have NO LIMIT on money given to wealthy! It is time in America to revolt against this system!
Our voices are ignored ! You are either for us or against us! PERIOD !!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
Senate doesnt work tomorrow,so next week they will go through all of this xxxx again
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
Carterdale – Do you CLAIM to be a Christian??? Most of the Right Wing Do- BUT they are NOT!! Try to remember that “Even as ye have done unto the least of them” so shall you be rewarded through eternity.
I guess you are one of the GREEDY ones for whom Capitalism with no restraints, boundarys, or regulations has worked well. For the rest of the HARD WORKING people who's lives have been ruined by the previous free-wheeling, non-regulatory Republican Administration. These people are not asking their “nanny” for a hand-out. They have PAID THE SALARY of the government for years, and are now simply asking that the government act in the best interests of the PEOPLE… remember …..of the people, by the people & for the people???
By the way- what the businesses pay is a PITANCE…. MOST OF THE U/E comes from TAXPAYERS!!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
Car companies, here you go billons, Banks here you go billons, the unemployed, here you go F*ck yourself. It’s going to take at best 2 more months before we get a dime. For my self that’s 4 months of no benefits. It’s going to be the next economic down turn, the UI benefits feed our economy, and this one is do to the inaction of the Senate again. But they don’t care homeless people don’t vote. The best I can hope for is a bad winter and a good cheep shovel.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
I think that's how long it's been for me too. My last benefit week was the last week of August.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:49 pm
hey carterdale,
why are you wanting to add to the deficit? TARP money adds to deficit. If it is not used it goes back to the Treasury. The unemployment tx businesses will pay is already paid now. It has been paid for the last 30 years!! The amount is $14 per employee. Why should we reward the companies who have laid off so many and shipped jobs to China? It's not like they will hire someone with $14 a year savings?? Hello??! I know you are uneducated, hence the mindless “socialist” rants. How about formulating a thought? Instead of parroting the fat drug addict? What disc jockey makes a billion dollars in the real world?
Just the fat drug addict who gets paid to pimp for corporate America. You pied pipers on the redneck right keep up the good work . Soon enough America will be a 3rd world country.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:50 pm
The same thing happened last year. My benefits ran out before Thanksgiving, and although an extension was passed, I didn't get anything until after Christmas.
It looks like another holiday season is all shot to @#$%
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
What the hell does ACORN and home buyer tax credit have to do with F@cking unemployment… are they smoking something there… worry about unemployment, if people dont have any money to pay bills they wont have any homes to get credit on…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 12:54 pm
Hey atleast I can tell my kids, hey we live in a free country where the Rich get richer and the people you vote in stop giving a shit about you after the polls close. At this point its no longer republican or democrat. Its both sides being worthless and not stepping up to the plate in time to see or fix this mess. Taking your summer break KNOWING FULL WELL that people were gonna start running out of unemployments is just assinine. They should no longer get days off or vacations or pay checks paid by the people until they start working for the people. Unemployment numbers are fixed to not seem as high as they really are. So they are saying nationally 9.something % when its more like 15-20% in most areas. Those of us that no longer receive checks aren't being counted so thats why for the last couple weeks unemployment numbers havent gone up. There are 7000 a day or week or whatever dropping off the books to be counted. The numbers are worse then they want you to know.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
We are just pawns in their evil game. I hope they rot in hell for stealing all our tax money. Thank God the end times are near and they will pay.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
I know for a fact the both my Senators and my Representative in the House were aware of the impending exhausting of benefits – because I urged all three of them to take action in JULY! I knew it wouldn't get done overnight, and even if it did get passed & signed on their last day before their vacation that it wouldn't come in time for uninterrupted weeks.
This is just silly. Some of us will have been WITHOUT benefits for 13 weeks before we start receiving them again!
And what ticks me off is how nonchalantly they take days off. Not only is Columbus Day a holiday, they then take the following Friday off as well! It must be nice to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and be able to show up for work only when you feel like it.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear on the news that thousands of unemployed stormed the Capital Building. Why not? there's nothing to lose. At worst, you're guaranteed “3 hots and a cot” for years to come.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:03 pm
WOW! I am reading all of your comments, while I am agreeing with all of you that the Republicans are to blame… try living in my home… My husband is a die hard Republican and every day he blames Obama for the issues… and I try to avoid it but doesnt happen… I tell him Obama has not been in office long enough for this stuff to be his fault… He is trying to clean up YEARS worth of a mess made by the Bush administration… this stuff doesnt happen in 9 mos…It took years to do, it is going to take time to clean up… I have not had unemployment since August and our car was already taken and we are trying to keep a roof with heat over our head… so food is very little… hopefully this extension will pass… we all need it… the one thing I dont understand about Obama is WHY havent we heard from him on this issue… I feel he should be putting pressure on them… pure craziness… I hope the Senators who are holding this up end up with out a job… and need to figure out how they are going to pay there bills…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:05 pm
What the hell is up with this? Apparently there is not enough money at stake for them to care about the unemployed! Please remember this at election time. I am embarrassed for this country! Politics as usual!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:06 pm
theres got to be a better way day after day its the samething wtf…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:06 pm
What it has to do with unemployment is this: In order to placate the Republicans, they're adding amendments they want.
That's all there is to it. Politicking. What makes this so unacceptable is that their votes AREN'T NEEDED! @#$% the Republicans, I say. Tell them where to go and pass this bill.
It's a shame that Sen. Reid didn't have the cojones to do what he threatened to do.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
Remind him that the recession began a year ago – before the election.
Obama has been shamefully quiet on this issue, but I think I know why. If you turn on CSPAN-2 just about any day at any time, they'll be talking about his pet project – Health Care Reform. I believe Obama's afraid of losing any of his backers on this if the stands up for what he knows needs to be done for the unemployed.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
We have to stay on Sen. Mitch McConnells (Ky.) (R) butt (202) 224-2541. He and Jon Kyl (Az.) (R), Johnny Isakson (Ga.) (R), Demitt (S.C.) are stalling this bill. They want to add amendments that are not relevant to unemployment. They feel “entitled” to have their issues included. Tell them we are entitled to our entitlements. Entitlements that we paid into (yes you naysayers there are states that employees pay into UI) over many years of hard work. That is why it is called unemployment insurance.
We need to be loud and clear on this issue. Get the media involved to expose this hypocracy. Does anyone know of some groups to contact in D.C. to swarm the Senators offices? Senator McConnells office hung up on me when I questioned why McConnell was stalling. I wish I were up there to give her @#$%.
Solidarity, Unite, Lets be heard !!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
It saddens me to say that I am an American!! No wonder other countries laugh at us. It amazes me when ever anything in this world happens the good-ole-USA is there to the rescue!! When the unemployed are out of benefits and looking at homelessness with winter fast approaching it's ok, we'll think about it and get to you in a month or two…meanwhile back at the ranch……………………..
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
Problem is that it hasn't been able to get to the floor for a vote yet!! As long as it stays “in committee” it can't be voted on.
Thank you, “REPUGNATCANS”!!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
This is an aspect I don't know much about… but there's GOT to be something that can be done to force it to the floor.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:24 pm
I read today where we are going to pay the Taliban to switch sides in Afghanistan!!!!!! I guess we have to JOIN THE TALIBAN to get any of OUR tax dollars in this time of crisis !!!!! It's time for a REAL CHANGE !!!!
All republicans AND democrats need to GO !!!!!!!!! Only AMERICANS
to serve in congress…not these TRAITORS!!!!!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
south carolina just got signed for 7 more weeks, at least someone is seeing some porgress
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
They will find out how they helped ruin America in the near future. It's already too late for some. As I understand it when (or if) HR-3548 gets passed and signed in, it won't be retroactive. Therefore people are not going to get paid for all the weeks they have missed. People who are behind on mortgage and car payments, and other bills are still going to be SOL.
Unfortunately, we are going to see foreclosures, car repossessions, and bankruptcies go through the roof. All will be due to our few unpatriotic senators.
This will only cause more financial hardship for everyone and will cause more unemployment.
I hope if they ever get anything ironed out, they will think about the future. Let's face it. They will have to be doing this all over again next May when benefits exhaust again and the unemployment rate is over 10%.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 2:32 pm
Can someone tell me how the same evil people keep getting voted in every election? I can tell you why. Most voters vote for a party and a name. If they are a registered Democrat then they only vote for a Democrat and vise-versa. It is thinking like this, that has screwed up this world. If you have a Democrat that is a known Saint, and cares about all people, and Republican that is a known devil, and would cut his own mothers throat, and you are a registered as a Republican, why in the hell would you vote for the devil instead of the Saint. Until people start voting for the candidate by who he or she is, and not what party he or she is, then this world will always be corrupt because of you.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
This is a picture of all of us unemployed.
http://airamerica.com/economy/10-28-2009/unempl…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
Cloture vote has passed- now more time is required….
You are right!! The system is messed up- but things should start to move–although with the REPUGNANTCAN's amendments for the RICH. Can you believe they used an unemployment bill to move an amendment for rich people???
Cloture is a French & English Parliamentary Procedure which was adopted by the U.S. IN THE EARLY 1900's to prevent fillibustering. You need a minimum of 60 Senators present to vote for it. Hence, it was not voted on at midnite. Here's what is it about:
A similar procedure was adopted in the United States of America in response to the actions of isolationist senators who attempted to talk out, or filibuster, a bill to arm U.S. merchant ships. President Woodrow Wilson urged the Senate to change its rules to thwart what he called a “little group of willful men”, to which the Senate responded by introducing cloture in the form of Rule 22 on March 8, 1917.[1] Cloture was invoked for the first time on November 15, 1919,[2] during the 66th Congress, to end filibuster on the Treaty of Versailles.[3]
The cloture rule originally required a supermajority of two-thirds of all senators “present and voting” to be considered filibuster-proof.[4][5] For example, if all 100 Senators voted on a cloture motion, 67 of those votes would have to be for cloture for it to pass; however if some Senators were absent and only 80 Senators voted on a cloture motion, only 54 would have to vote in favor.[6] However, it proved very difficult to achieve this; the Senate tried eleven times between 1927 and 1962 to invoke cloture but failed each time. Filibuster was particularly heavily used by Democratic Senators from Southern states to block civil rights legislation.
In 1975, the Democratic Senate majority, having achieved a net gain of four seats in the 1974 Senate elections to a strength of 61 (with an additional Independent caucusing with them for a total of 62), reduced the necessary supermajority to three-fifths (60 out of 100). However, as a compromise to those who were against the revision, the new rule also changed the requirement for determining the number of votes needed for a cloture motion's passage from those Senators “present and voting” to those Senators “duly chosen and sworn”. Thus, 60 votes for cloture would be necessary regardless of whether every Senator voted. The only time a lesser number would become acceptable is when a Senate seat is vacant. (For example, if there were two vacancies in the Senate, thereby making 98 Senators “duly chosen and sworn”, it would only take 59 votes for a cloture motion to pass.)
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
Scroll down this page to see the republicans who are blocking the unemployment extension:
http://unempbenefitsdebate.proboards.com/index….
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 3:04 pm
to the best of my knowledge, all it requires is 60 votes. The time of day is unimportant. It can be voted on at midnight if the Senate is in session.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
I am here agan trying to get a sense of where this may lead all of us. I write to everyone who is blogging about this unemloyment extension. All of the Senate is to blame Republicans and Democrats. The fact that this bill can be held up for this long when every senator and representative knew that this was coming during the summer lets me know that all of them are responsible.
I am a Democrat and I am just as ashamed of the Democrat party as the Republican party. I am angry and hurt and scared. I have already lost everything and the only things left for me to do is keep job searching, and praying.
But we must keep job searching, we must try to help one another. If you know someone who needs help try to help them. Contact people who may be in the same situation and see if you can pool resources to help each other. I don't know but maybe if we all assist each other we can come out less scarred.
I just want to hope for the best for everyone but I also want everyone to remember this come election time, I want these American senators to feel the power of the American people. I want to Kyl and Hatch and every other Republican and Democrat to look back and know that treating the people who supported them like crap will cost them more than they took from us.
Stay strong
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
I am all for a better healthcare plan but run by the Gov't ??? we see now how they work, spending all day long talking about something that even if it does work, wont happen until next year, by then most of us will be pennyless and homeless, and wont be able to afford it anyway, I live in one of the 10 ten poverty stricken citys in the South and only came here for a transfer and a better life, I left Nebraska which is only around 5% unemployment and I had a great job but people here have a culture of not wanting to work it makes me want to vomit, I am not a racist but ambition is lacking where I live, We are all God's chidren as far as I am concerned, we need to cutback importing I know some things are better made in other countries so we need to take more pride in our work when we do find a job and keep businesses here in the USA “You know the old saying dont buy an american car made on a Monday or Friday, if the big 3 CEO's would have spent more money on quality control instead of stuffing thier fat faces and wallets we would never had to bail them out and at a time when when no one can even buy a new car, and not buy parts made in Mexico. We need to take control of our Nation or it will go into the ABYSS
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
As of 4:05 pm est 10/29/09 CSPAN2 is in the senate debate , I think the repubes are acting like little school children, waiting for the fists to fly now
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
I'd like to know why is it that whenever I turn on CSPAN the Reps. have the floor who has majority in congress? What a damn joke they are still bickering the healthcare reform and the environment. Where are their priorities on this?
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
Senator McConnell, objected to to passing the unemployment extension again just a few minutes ago. I hope the people from Kentucky are proud of him. They are trying to add a tarp amendment to it. The house has already stated if the unemployment bill comes back with the tarp amendment attached, they will not accept it.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:21 pm
I swear if , I could get a hold of that Mitch McConnell, I would beat the living shit out of him !!!! That bastard just put another objection on the unemployment extension. So we have ANOTHER week of delays!! F+ CK YOU MITCH MCCONNELL AND THE REPUBLICANS !!!!!!!!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
Sen. Harry Reid (Majority Leader) (Nv.) (D) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (Minority Leader) (Ky.) (R) just finished speaking (3:45-4:00 P.M. EDT) on the Senate floor (C-Span 2).
McConnell said, “they offered a “modest” 8 amendments to the bill. Now they are satisfied with 3 amendments (home buyer tax break, tarp moderator program, net business loss).
Sen. Harry Reid responded by saying the Democrats are willing to accept the three (3) amendments but the House leader has indicated that the Tarp amendment would not pass the House.He also indicated that this bill should have been completed and voted on three weeks ago.
McConnell said then submit the bill and vote on it because the Majority has the votes to pass the bill.
Sen. Reid said,” this is another stall tactic by the Republicans to hold this bill up while people are hurting.”
Sen. McConnell said he is ready to have the bill voted on with limited 60 minute discussion on the bill. Then the bill could be voted on today.
Sen. Reid repeated it was another stall tactic by the Republicans. Then Harry Reid asked the Senate President what is the next business item on the Senate schedule.
End of Discussion on Unemployment Extension (Total: less than 15 minutes)
It appeared to me that a agreement could have been made right there. There could have been discussion for 60 minutes and a vote taken. Why are they playing games? What is it going to take to get through to these two?
Suggestion: Keep on these two. Sen. McConnell (202) 224-2541
Sen. Reid (202) 224-3542
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
Now I see why the republicans like the 2nd ammendment so much. They will need all those guns before it's over with !!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
And dont forget the repubes said they need time to read through 1000's of pages of the bill what a bunch of BS, I will say this bill will be passed but it may be too late for me and alot of us, luckily my good neighbor just bought me a 6-pack I dont usually drink but I need to now and it is setting in.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
I am glad that tthey don't have a 2nd thought to all of us starving families out here who can't even find a job sweeping floors. Let alone a job well enough to halfway support our families.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
it is a pity that we are still in this situation. but we need to keep our heads up, and become creative, BTW I got a gun and alot of ammo. The REPUBES F'd this nation up and they will totally anialate it.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
I cant even find a job cleaning urinals thanks to the illegal aliens
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:44 pm
I bet if they attached this unemployment extension to the defense appropriations bill it would have been passed in record time. Or attached to THEIR FREAKING PAY RAISES!!!!!!!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
I know we are all in awe right now to what the senate is doing but here is a picture that may bring a little smile to your face
http://declubz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:07 pm
Cut it all off. No more lazy welfare entitlement programs for the fat lazy couch potatos that don't want to work. I would agree to this if there was an amendment that forced the recipients to work 4 hous per day in the fields picking lettuce. I bet the unemployment rate would be at 5% after a month.
Now get to looking for that job. Lots of love, Johnson
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
not to be humerous but i had to sell all my guns to pay the rent…lol
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:09 pm
Monkey see, monkey do. bla, bla, bla, bla. Get to work
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:12 pm
Gotta love the gop. who loves ya baby. delay, delay, delay. Now get to work.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:12 pm
You must have a job, born with a silver spoon or just a pure jackass. Only a dumbass would make a statement like this. You must be Paris Hilton because only a idiot like her does not know what is going on in this real world.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
Thanks for coming JOHNSON I missed you. its not welfare we all worked most of our life and very hard you probably have not reached puberty yet, oh is that a hairy mole on your chin or is that your ARSE? evidently you have issues so dont forget your medications you need them. one day you will be in the same situation we are in. 2 million jobs open and 5 million out of work do the math you anal orifice. and I could get a job picking lettuce but the illegal immigrants you republicans let in this country have stole all the open positions
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
what a loser Johnson
lots of love friendly neighbor :)
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Conservative895
I thought you were a monkey? you make very educated posts you must be a college graduate. dont leave I am having fun with you
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
another repeat you must be a shopping cart shagger
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:52 pm
Dear Senator McConnell,
I was born into a poor family and did not have the opportunities that you had. No money for education. I have worked since I was sixteen years old. I had to work very hard to get everything that I did have, that’s right what I did have. I have sold everything I own just to try and stay in my home. Well, it did not work. I will have to leave. You have a mansion and I have a tent. You have a blackberry phone ans I have a gooseberry. I have one thing that you do not have, love and compassion for people. I am human, and you are not. If I could trade places with you, I would say no, because thank God I was born poor.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:57 pm
Dear Conservative89 – you will live to regret your words. I am sure of that.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
Time for your diaper change and medication. Mitch should be your daddy. He might teach you how to interview properly. No wonder your having a hard time getting a job. Temper, temper, temper. You might want to invest in anger management classes. Hugs and kisses, GOP JOHNSON Happy Holloween
Lots of love, Johnson
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Excellent, I started delivering newspapers at 13 and shoveling snow off driveways at 12
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:07 pm
Senator Kyl says the benefits have not run out yet call him and tell him when yours ran out
KYL's senate office number is 202-224-4521
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:09 pm
More unemployed than jobs available? what happened this country?
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
before leaving your home tell the mortgage company to produce the Note you signed. Most mortgages have changed hands so many times they may have a hard time finding it.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:20 pm
conservative895 reminds me of an idiot on a phoenix newspapers blog just spout BS to get a rise out of you. what a dumass
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
Texas got a 7-week extension, beginning 11/8.
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/busin…
I don't know how, but I am grateful…as God only knows WHEN HR3548 will see action!!
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:28 pm
Kyl in No Real Hurry to Extend Unemployment Benefits
Moments ago, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) took to the chamber floor with a strange claim about the urgency surrounding legislation to extend unemployment insurance.
“The benefits haven’t run out yet,” Kyl said. “We’re going to pass this before the benefits run out.”
It’s tough to decipher exactly what he means.
KYL's senate office number is 202-224-4521
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Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
Conservative895,
You have been on every article posting you crap all day 24/7, why are you here?
Not working??
Oh thats right you get a pension,and drive your bentley around….
I live inGA, I only hope you are close to me, I would come there and slap you like the bitch you are!!
And end all this useless bickering…
I picture you laying in your bed, fat gut hanging out to prop your lap top up,smoking and eating potato chips,and you have a hard time moving because you have'nt been out of bed for weeks,.
time for a shower dirt bag….
You may think you are messing with people and think its funny,but im the one messing with you…have at it give it your best shot…
after all im unemployeed, whats your excuse?
hahhahahahahhahahahahhaha..
people don't try to talk to this guy with sense because he dosen't have any….just keep telling him what a loser he is and hell go away..
He attacks everyone but me! check the other post, he cracks me up!!!
keep it coming!! if you can think of anything new to say besides, “change your diaper” “waaaa” “hooooo raaa” hahahahhahah
I
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
just like the old citizens band radio hiding behind but there are ways to sniff out his IP address but its not worth it he will get his sooner if not later
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
Was that state or federal??
you know the states could step in and do something too…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
It is because you did not get all of the last extension because your states unemployment rate was not among the worst. The same thing just happened in Utah we just got 13 weeks from the last extension starting same day Nov 8
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705339581/Ut…
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
Whats notbeatmedownyet. Is that your header for your resume or your IQ. Time to get to it. Go Mitch
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
voteindependemt
I feel your anguish, I live in Ga also not enough jobs and too many out of work, dont acknowlege Conservative895 he will go back to his pedophile chatroom, he is ignorant if he is getting a pension it may end before he knows it and by then I hate to say Social Security big wigs are lining their pockets so we will have nothing. “The Meek Shall Survive”
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Are you intelligent idiot oh thats an oxymoron do you know what that means? or are you just a moron
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
I cant even find a job cleaning urinals for the illegal aliens
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 11:30 pm
When i find you, i will slit your mothers throat , fuck your wife , and kill your kids!
See Ya soon my friend..muah
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 6:36 am
Conservative895 :
You are just a skidmark on the underwear of society
and a hemmoroid on ass of humanity andhave had a sheltered life
it appears you dont have a life or you would be in the gay chatrooms.
so you come here to try to stir it up. NEWSFLASH it will
get passed. and one day you will think back maybe it is the right
thing to do now. There are too many out of work and not enough jobs.
“WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT” my career track record is impeccable and my resume shows it also….BITE ME!!!!!
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 7:24 am
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.”
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 9:52 am
Thank You Mitch, Go Mitch, go Mitch, Yaaaa Whooo
Who loves you baby, Senator Mitch does. Time to pound the pavement, get to it. Hugs, Johnson
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 9:54 am
Time to dig a ditch for Mitch. Get to work. Thanks to Senator Mitch it is delayed again. Thanks GOP. Hugs, Johnson
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 10:28 am
The great thing about this country, free will, free opinions. You can't handle opposition, along with 90% of these lazy idiots out here. So get real, eat your fries and try not to bite your tung. You never know, I might be unemployed as well. Good luck in your job search.
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 11:42 am
You crack me up :) I think you hit the nail on the head !
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 11:52 am
Well said…
Luke 6:20-21 “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours in the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.”
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 7:41 pm
Yes, as long as there are 60 people there to vote. Don’t know if 60 people could be compelled to be there at midnite.
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 7:59 pm
If you’re a Democrat Senator and the Senate Majority Leader tells you to be there at midnight, you darn well BETTER be there at midnight! :)
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
Some states are stepping up and providing additional weeks. Oregon already has, and Texas just did. I believe other states have as well. Not mine (Ohio) though.
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
Wow,
we must have crashed the website last night,every link I went to was all screwed up! working fine now!
Oh well its monday then!!
Comment posted October 30, 2009 @ 9:47 pm
lets see how can we stall this again? how about a tax credit for home buyers. that way when they get unemployment they can buy a new home with it. how about accorn? if we put this in they can get a job with accorn. how about TARP? I don't know what they can do with that,but it will hold it up some more. Are polls are down.we my lose our jobs. lets see. the poor and homeless are less likly to vote. if we hold this up we put 7000 people a day into poverty. hay thay won't vote. If they don't vote, we keep our jobs. So lets put as mini of them into poverty as we can and maybe they won't vote us out. they will be to busy trying to feed there kids to vote us out. ha!ha! the master plan.
Comment posted October 31, 2009 @ 8:53 am
I watched CSPAN Friday and realized people are trying to beat the $7500 credit by taking the $$ and not even buying a home. where are the checks and balances this Gov't is supposed to put into place. if it does get passed it will be not a loan but a gift and it should be used to offset closing costs or mortgage payment amount but not a free check…wait for G W BUSHES nephew Jebs son google it…I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
Comment posted October 31, 2009 @ 8:55 am
I thought it was my PC thanks for the info
Comment posted October 31, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
I restarted my computer I thought I had something wrong but after an hour I decided we must have overwhelmed the server. lets do it again on monday, let them know there are a lot of us looking for resoulution of this issue.
Comment posted October 31, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
What taxes? All I did this year is collect unemployment with nothing withheld. It is absolutely moronic that the government will pay Unemployment and then want to tax it.
Comment posted October 31, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
Its ashame they expect us to pay taxes on unemployment benefits. But as law goes if you paid the premium on it in instead of employers it would not be taxed, but if employers paid, they expect you to pay the income tax, same goes for Disability in your workplace if the employer pays which is a tax advantage, you are expected to pay taxes on it, but if you dont have a job and dont have income e.g. unemployment benefits then who gets the burdon of taxes the conservatives (repubs) and all the poor Democratic peeps who are struggling to survive as it is… lets stop wasteful spending of tax dollars, put people back to work. so they wont have to rely on the the little they get from unemployment. and help the citizens of the USA before helpin other nations. State taxes are a joke also
Comment posted November 2, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
Conservative895, u are in denial and waiting on this bill to be passed like the rest of us…you just dont want to admit it asswipe! Thats why ur on here everyday…and everywhere!
Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 1:46 am
Sounds like you need anger management classes.
I'll be waiting, anytime, any place. Now go put some anal lube on your lips, wrap them around a big exhaust pipe and inhale deep. Let me know how that works. Lots of Love, smooches, Big Daddy Johnson
Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 6:46 am
Sounds like you need anger management classes.
I'll be waiting, anytime, any place. Now go put some anal lube on your lips, wrap them around a big exhaust pipe and inhale deep. Let me know how that works. Lots of Love, smooches, Big Daddy Johnson
Comment posted June 9, 2010 @ 2:34 pm
I have been unemployed for 18 months, their are no jobs in PARIS, TN . I AM DESPREATED FOR MONEY TO PAY FOR FOOD AND i HAVE NO INSURANCE, i AM 64 AND TO OLD FORE A JOB AND TO YOUNG FOR INSURANCE
Comment posted June 21, 2010 @ 7:44 pm
You big fat cats set up there in your big office.you dont knon how create jobs for us.when we have to get in our kids piggy banks.to pay a light bill or water bill.its pretty dam bad when you watch your kids go hungry!but just remeber they will be another voteing day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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