Senate Could Vote to Extend Jobless Benefits
With U.S. unemployment rising, lawmakers hope to resolve a logjam this week on a measure that would extend jobless benefits for those who already may have exhausted them, Senate aides said on Tuesday.
Congressional leaders had hoped to extend benefits before the end of September, when some 400,000 recipients were expected to use them up. But while the House of Representatives last month passed a bill, jobless benefits legislation stalled in the Senate due to a dispute over how many workers should be eligible.
While some details remained unresolved, the measure could come up for a vote in the Senate within days, said an aide to Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who argued that the legislation was too narrowly targeted.
Shaheen objected to legislation passed by the House that would extend benefits for jobless workers only in states where the unemployment rate is above 8.5 percent. The unemployment rate was 6.8 percent in August in Shaheen’s home state of New Hampshire.
[...] Senate has been mingling with the idea of extending jobless benefits for those who’ve lost their jobs. The problem is that the politicians can’t quite make up their minds. A bill was passed last [...]
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LANETRA JONES said this on October 9, 2009 at 4:26 am |
PEOPLE NEED TO HELP THE ONES WHO NEED HELP NOT THE ONE WHO TRYING TO TAKE FROM GOV IF THE RICH CAN LIVE IN OUR SHOSE FOR 3DAYS THEY GO RUNING BACK HOME WE BLACK GAOT HARD BUT WE TO FIND AWAY TO GET IN LIKE THE OTHER STAND TALL FOR WHAT WE WANT
LANETRA JONES said this on October 9, 2009 at 4:30 am |
ARE WE GOING TO GET EXTENTION WHATS YOUR OPINION
chris said this on October 14, 2009 at 6:45 pm |
i hope that we continue to receive unemployment benifits a lot of people have been lead into oppression because of this crises and stop letting other people in this Country and take care of your own people people are dieing from these destitute Situations what’s so hard about making the right decesion for the american People’s for a change they need to stop playing games with Our lives
tonia sneed said this on October 15, 2009 at 6:18 am |