Extension of jobless benefits loses in House

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The House has defeated a bill to extend unemployment benefits for Americans who can’t find a job.

Democrats needed a two-thirds vote to pass a bill giving all unemployed Americans an extra 13 weeks of jobless benefits. They also needed that margin to overcome a threatened veto by the White House.

But the final vote on the bill was 279-144, which wasn’t enough. Republicans complained that the bill would give money to states that still have low unemployment rates. They also said the Democratic legislation would let people get long-term jobless benefits by working as little as two weeks.

Read more: http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1000276,job061208.article

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Edit - to add link roll call.

Link here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll403.xml

All the Democrats voting voted Yea.

[gateley]

1. Republicans are soulless.

And I bet almost every one of those that voted against the extension is a "good Christian". :grr:

[ananda]

2. What is with those Reeptiles???

It's election season and they're voting
against anything and everything that
would help voters.

They are going to lose soooo bad in November..

.. unless they election is fixed or gamed
some way due to voter ID, Diebold and the
like, and obstructions in getting to the
polls.

[geckosfeet]

3. Are your sure? All I heard on NPR on the ride home was a story about the head

of Obama's Veep exploratory team resigning from a volunteer position. That one man is so much more important and worthy of news than millions of out of work Americans with no source of income.

I mean - NPR knows how to report on news that impact American lives - don't they? They know their way into and out of the white house - don't they? They can cover congressional proceedings can't they? They don't get talking points from conservative think tanks - do they?!

Surely that silly defeated bill was meaningless election year congressional blather, meant only to sway public opinion.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Well thank heavens they did that!

How else could we afford to continue the tax breaks and subsidies for the deserving oil companies?

[bluesmail]

5. Soulless and inhumane, n/t

[pollo poco]

6. color me pissed

We were really "hoping".

Will they try again? Or do they just want us to piss off and die?

[OhioChick]

7. K&R

Surprised this isn't on the greatest page, yet.

:kick:

[MikeNearMcChord]

8. And the repukes wonder why they are going to get their asses kicked.

in November, why they are losing in formerly republican districts, why even some Republicans are considering voting for Obama and the Democrats..

[KillCapitalism]

9. You gotta be fucking kidding me!

It failed with unemployment as high as it is? WTF. I think winning a BIG number of House and Senate seats this fall might be just as important as winning the Presidency.

[Blaze Diem]

10. Didn't they just vote themselves a F*ckin PAY RAISE????

Do they propose an alternative to the demise of the American people, this will surely create? What the F are people suppose to do to survive the horrific policies of the Bush clusterfuck?? I am soooo pissed.
Bush Base gets 100% and the American people get 0%.

They are in a hurry to speed up this third-world-society-thing for America aren't they.

God Damned Thieves

[Divine Discontent]

11. Do you hear me DEM candidates for office!? USE THIS AS YOUR MAIN ATTACK

to defeat these weak and evil GOP bastards for their Congressional seats - they'll vote for pay raises, to extend this dreadful war, to give tax breaks to the wealthy Oil Industry like "corporate welfare", but with unemployment surging they had the F*****G NERVE to vote down this bill!

You want to win - run a negative ad on those bastards with every dollar you can!


Obama & Anti-McSame/B*sh stickers & shirts!
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[krawhitham]

12. They are going to try again tomorrow

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democrats will try again Thursday to pass a bill extending unemployment benefits after it fell three votes short of a needed two-thirds majority on Wednesday.

"We expect it to pass tomorrow," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/11/unemployment.benefits/

[conspirator]

13. Well the army needs to meet its recruitment goals. People with benefits are

not desperate enough to enlist.

[CBHagman]

14. Not a single Democratic nay.

And there were 49 Republican ayes.

thanks, Lone Star Dem, for posting the roll call.

[sarcasmo]

15. Republicans hate the jobless, why can't Obama use this stuff.

He would win Michigan in a landslide if he used this vote.