Earlier this evening, Annie Lowrey made an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,” guest-hosted by The Nation’s Chris Hayes, to discuss her piece today on the Senate’s nine-month effort to extend unemployment benefits — and GOP’s maneuvers to kill any extension that added to the country’s budget deficit. Check More…
This morning, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said he will introduce a deficit-neutral version of the jobs bill. His Fiscally Responsible Relief for Our States Act of 2010 does not raise taxes or expand the national debt, and instead borrows funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, last More…
This afternoon, the House failed to pass a standalone bill that would have extended federal unemployment insurance benefits. Last week, the jobs bill pending in the Senate — containing those benefits as well as Medicaid aid for states and dozens of other provisions — died. Each week that Congress fails More…
This Gallup poll, in some ways, is tautology: Republicans are conservative about the role of government, and Democrats are liberal. Members of the GOP believe that the government has overextended itself wildly — trying to convince businesses to hire more workers, cajole banks to reform and give more loans, More…
This week, the Senate might turn to Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)’s standalone bill to continue federally extended unemployment insurance benefits.* The jobs bill, also known as H.R. 4213 or the extenders package, that included the extension along with a number of other provisions failed to move forward to More…
There are only four states — North Dakota, Alaska, Arkansas and Montana — that will not run a budget deficit in the next fiscal year, which for states, though not the federal government, starts on Thursday. All 46 others plus the District of Columbia will be in the red More…
The jobs bill, which includes an extension to unemployment benefits among other provisions, could be passed if Democrats would be willing to pay for it with stimulus money and offset other spending, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in an interview with TWI sister site The Iowa Independent.
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Earlier today, I participated in a reporters’ call with Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), regarding the collapse of the jobs bill, also known as the extenders package or H.R. 4213, yesterday. They lashed out at Republicans and made the case for the stimulative effect of More…
This evening, 57 senators said they supported the jobs bill, also known as the extenders package or H.R. 4213, which would extend unemployment benefits and Medicaid payments to states, among other provisions. Just 41 said they did not. But in the strange logic of Congress, that is enough to prevent More…
There are signs of capitulation — or at least there is some clarification — coming from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the GOP member Democrats believe to be most likely to vote for the jobs bill, also known as the tax extenders package or H.R. 4213. Nothing is certain. But today, More…
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