Senate blocks $60 billion infrastructure plan, another part of Obama jobs bill

[spanone]

they want america to fail....

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The Senate shot down another piece of President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill Thursday, as a stalemated Congress goes through the motions of attempting legislation to spur economic growth largely as a mechanism to allow each party to blame one another for the failure to act.

By a vote of 51 to 49, the Senate blocked a measure to spend $50 billion on highway, rail, transit and airport improvements and another $10 billion as seed money for an infrastructure bank designed to spark private investment in construction. The measure needed 60 votes to proceed to a full debate.


The failure came in advance of a jobs report due out Friday morning that will show the trajectory of the job market in the final quarter of the year. So far, there are signs that employers are shrugging off the ill effects of Europe’s troubles and volatile financial markets and are continuing to hire at a gradual pace. The September unemployment report relieved concerns about massive waves of layoffs, and last week the Commerce Department said the economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the summer months, its fastest clip in a year.

The Labor Department also reported Thursday that the number of people filing new claims for unemployment insurance benefits fell last week to 397,000, from a revised 406,000 the previous week. That was the lowest level in five weeks. Also Thursday, a survey from the Institute for Supply Management on activity at the nation’s service businesses was little changed, at 52.9 in October compared with 53 in September. Numbers above 50 indicate expansion.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-blocks-60-billion-infrastructure-plan/2011/11/03/gIQACXjajM_story.html?hpid=z1

[Autumn]

1. Not a surprise at all. Aren't there tax cuts in that too?

seems like I thought I heard something on that. You can bet if there are, that part will pass.

[Poll_Blind]

2. "You can bet if there are, that part will pass." It's a terrible certainty. nt

PB

[madrchsod]

3. i love the senate`s 51 is not a majority rule.....

why the fuck do they even bother?

[spanone]

4. obviously, the majority does not rule.

[classysassy]

5. Zero for the average citizen aka poor citizens

but billions for the military,when will the insanity end,oh funny you should ask,when we get ride of the congressional criminals and replace them them with poor and middle class citizens.The career politicians must go in order for democracy to flourish.