News Alert: Extension of Jobless Benefits Clears Key Senate Hurdle -60-40 Vote!
With the bare minimum of votes required to avoid a
filibuster, the bill to extend unemployment benefits cleared
the most important procedural hurdle in the Senate and
advanced to a final vote and all but certain passage,
expected later today.
Democrats in the Senate moved ahead
with the bill after an interim appointee, Carte Goodwin, was
sworn in this afternoon to fill the West Virginia seat left
vacant by the death of Robert C. Byrd and provide the 60th
yes in a largely party-line vote. The bill is expected to be
approved by the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
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