This afternoon, the Senate cleared a crucial hurdle to reauthorizing the federal extension of unemployment benefits, held up in the Senate for an unprecedented two months. The upper chamber voted down a filibuster of H.R. 4213, also known as the jobs bill or the extenders package — the vehicle More…
Sen. Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) was sworn in about half an hour ago by Vice President Biden. At 36, he is the youngest member of Senate. The late Sen. Robert Byrd (D), his predecessor and 56 years his senior, was the oldest member of the body at the time of his More…
Today, Congress plans to vote on a federal extension of unemployment benefits, held up in the Senate for an unprecedented two months. The Senate will reconsider H.R. 4213, also known as the jobs bill or the extenders package, as the vehicle for a $34 billion extension of jobless benefits More…
When West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) said Friday that he was “passing the torch” to Carte Goodwin, his former general counsel and appointee to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D), he likely thought Goodwin would end up handing it back to him in just a few months. But More…
Speaking in the Rose Garden, surrounded by three unemployed workers, this morning President Obama again castigated Republicans for blocking the federal extension of unemployment benefits. And he implied hypocrisy on Republicans’ part — the GOP cut taxes and increased spending, expanding the deficit Republicans now demand get slashed; and the More…
On Tuesday, the Senate plans to vote on a federal extension of unemployment benefits, blocked by Senate Republicans for an unprecedented two months. The swearing-in of Carte Goodwin, the temporary replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), will give Democrats the crucial 60th vote to overcome a More…
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has answered the question on the minds of all the people who have lost their unemployment benefits in recent weeks: Senate appointee Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) will vote in favor of the unemployment benefits extension bill that the Senate will take up shortly after he More…
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) will name his administration’s former general counsel, Carte Goodwin, to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D).
While there has been no official confirmation from Manchin’s office, sources have identified Goodwin as Manchin’s pick to The Associated Press. Goodwin was one of More…
On Tuesday, the Treasury Department announced that the country’s deficit had hit the $1 trillion mark just nine months into the fiscal year. Fear of the deficit had already led Congress to kill or delay an administration-backed jobs bill, a federal extension of unemployment benefits, a war More…
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just indicated that the Senate might take up the unemployment benefits extension on Tuesday. The federally extended benefits, covered in detail here, lapsed at the end of May — leaving approximately 300,000 families per week, living in states with unemployment rates over 8 More…
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