Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs indicated that President Obama might push for another unemployment extension in November, when the extension the Senate plans to authorize today expires.
The Senate is taking a cloture vote today, and hopes to push through a majority-rules vote as soon as possible thereafter. More…
Tomorrow, the federal extension of unemployment benefits held up for two months in the Senate should pass. On a call with reporters this afternoon, Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) lauded the extension but bashed Republicans for holding up the bill and causing the loss of benefits 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…
It has been 44 days since Congress let federally extended unemployment benefits lapse for 300,000 workers per week. Now, more than 2.1 million have lost the subsistence-level checks. Today, the National Employment Law Project highlighted the case of one 17-year veteran of the banking industry:
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While West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) has made no public comments yet on who he will pick tomorrow as an interim replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) — or even who is on his short-list — analysts and some of the candidates themselves have managed to narrow More…
It ain’t uplifting, but it’s arguably the most pressing issue facing the country right now, so after the jump, check out TWI’s Annie Lowrey and the omnipresent Reihan Salam discussing the unemployment crisis on bloggingheads.tv:
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) plans to announce his pick for a temporary successor to late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) sometime between Friday and Sunday.
“In a perfect world, Friday night I make an appointment,” he told The Associated Press yesterday. “In a perfect world, by Monday More…
The 2.1 million Americans hoping for a federal extension of unemployment insurance benefits are still waiting on Gov. Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia.
The governor will name a person to hold Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) Senate seat temporarily, until a permanent replacement can be voted in this fall. (Byrd More…
Gov. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) can legally call a 2010 special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), state Attorney General Darrell McGraw (D) ruled today.
The ruling moves forward what has become a bipartisan push to move the election from 2012 to this year. Shortly after Byrd’s More…
Yesterday, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) told reporters he hopes to hold a special election to replace Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) in November, rather than waiting until 2012.
Manchin said he will ask state Attorney General Darrell McGraw (D) for a legal opinion on the issue. If McGraw
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