Blog - Senate Passes Procedural Hurdle For Extending Jobless Benefits

I myself was a Republican for over 30 years, but last week I changed my status to Democrat, I am not able to support a group of people that only looks out for themselves and the rich, I’m sure they have constituents in their state that needs just as much help as the the thousands that have ran or about to run out of their benefits, this is SICK!!! to let people here in there own Country suffer for Politcal gain, just to prove something. We won’t forget 2010 and 2012 is nearer than you think!!!!!!

NO! That is not why they voted against the cloture motion.

The way the bill is now… ALL STATES, ALL COUNTIES, WOULD QUALIFY! (14 weeks)

The states with 8.5% or more would get an additional 6 weeks.

The reason it is being held up is that two Nebraska Senators want to add an ACORN amendment that Majority Leader Reid will not agree to.

Focus on CALLING the two Nebraska senators that are pushing for the ACORN amendment. This is the main amendment preventing an agreement on H.R. 3548.

Senator Johanns – DC office: 202-224-4224
Senator Nelson – DC office: 202-224-6551

Ask them to add their amendment to another bill. Tell them why passing an extension NOW is important to you and your family.

Today, Senator Jon Kyl, speaking on the floor of the United States Senate, said “The benefits haven’t run out yet. We’re going to pass this before the benefits run out.”

How can a United States Senator be so uninformed? Doesn’t he have aides that can correct him on such an important matter? Or is he just lying to the American people?

Dear Senator Kyl, for hundreds of thousands of Unemployed Workers, their BENEFITS HAVE ALREADY RUN OUT!

Just in case he doesn’t read this thread, will someone please call his DC office and let him know the truth. His aides must be keeping him in the dark.

Senator Jon Kyl: 202-224-4521

I changed my status from republican to democrat this week, so did my 8 cousins and my mom and dad.The reps are gonna feel it when 2012 comes. they will pay dearly for all this monstruosity that they are forcing upon us.

Why didn’t Reid take McConnell’s offer today? If they didn’t like the TARP sunset amendment they could just “vote it down”. What McConnell was “offering” was a losing proposition for Reid AND US! If the TARP amendment made it through, McConnell wins and WE LOSE because it would prevent it from passing the House. McConnell was simply delaying our extension AGAIN… and he knew it. McConnell’s DC office opens at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow. The Senate is not in session, but their staff should be there… unless they’re hiding.

Call his office non-stop and let him know how his political agenda has hurt you and hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country.

Ask McConnell to withdraw the offending TARP amendment from H.R. 3548.

Senator Mitch McConnell – DC office: 202-224-2541
Fax: 202-224-2499
Copy these numbers down and start calling early tomorrow… or don’t complain when nothing changes next week.

so does enyone have realistic idea about how long will it take for us to see a check or a dam claim form in the mail after Obama sighns it cuz im tired of hearing about 2 to 3 weeks theirs gotta be a more relistic answer?

Sell your car, take the bus and cancel your cable. Cable is not a neccessity. If you are not willing to give up your fancy car and luxury tv (yes, cable is a luxury) then stop complaining.

You can downsize, you’re simply choosing not to. Also, learn to spell.

And, in case anyone is wondering, I cancelled my cable a year ago. That’s $50 more in my pocket a month.

so when does this get voted on by the whole senate?

OBAMA SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

I love President Obama, but I have been thinking the same thing.

You said it BEST!!!!

How apt! This is exactly how I picture the senate too.

A very informative site to check out is for NELP (National Employment Law Project).
Read their comments on the Progress Illinois blog on the additional benefits topic.
Also a good site.

Lets all pray this passes THIS WEEK!!!!

billiness is right. We need to focus on continuing to apply pressure any way we can on the Republicans who are sand-bagging this process. Tom Hartmann the Air America progressive talk show host has been calling out Mitch McConnell all along as the head-of-the-snake on the hold up. Let’s use what ever means we have to focus on the 13 nayes. Our voices and our votes are our only weapons right now.

so after hearing Sherod Brown talk, and Ill paraphrase him…

Unemployment insurance is an insurance polity and when those benefits expire they are expired and those who have had their benefits expire [ last month, this month, yesterday] are NOT [Note: I emphasise NOT] eligible for an extension with this unemploment extension?

Now, what is that all about ?

Lynette 1015. many people on here have said time and time again that all 50 states are getting the extension of 14 weeks. If your state is over 8.5% your state will recieve an additional 6 weeks.

Senator Kyl said “The benefits haven’t run out yet”… What is he talking about, Everyone’s benefits? My benefits ran out in September. Hundreds of thousands have ALREADY RUN OUT!

And your not anonymous because you have pickyrose62 for a name?

You dummies, its just not retroactive, meaning when it does pass, it won’t backdate, but begin from that day…so it will be 20 weeks into the future but not cover any missing weeks from the pass.

All who have already exhausted are still covered

I have been watching the senate in tv and I never dreamed this bill would take so long. Thank god for the Senators who have been working thier butts off on the floor trying to get this bill passed.I will keep watching and you can be sure that i will never vote for anyone who votes against this bill. This is the first time in my life i have ever collected unemployment. i could always find a job before the unemployment check was approved and mailed. Times are bad. i just hope i can find a job soon.

They haven’t gotten their asses up about anything. This morning reports are that the US is gving money to the Taliban in Afghanistan to try and get them to our side and also that a business in England is profiting from US funds. ALL of those monies could be used to help Americans out of work. Also….the news is reporting that continuing jobless claims are down and that is good they say. BS…it simply means that more of us are falling off the rolls because our benefits have run out. How stupid do they think we all are? It is the Republicans who are issuing the wrong stastics so they will have more reason to deny us an extension.

BIG TIME!!! I will never vote in American politics again. Myself, and many others, I think have learned a very valuable lesson this time around. Watch and see how BIG a holiday season the Obamas have this year!! Bet your ass they won’t scale down to show support for those of us who will have NO holiday season. Bet they won’t be getting fed at a food kitchen for the homeless as many of us will.

And they are saying the economy is better. Yeah….in their wealthy worlds it is because the Republican false numbers have just increased the stock market, which this country shouldn’t and doesn’t need, so they can make more money on their investments. They aren’t pulling the wool over our eyes as they think they are but hopefully we are pounding nails in their coffins. Wonder if Obama will go to their funerals. He certainly isn’t going to ours!!!!

Humdinger….You have to read thru the crap but that info is there. It’s like crawling thru mud but we’re talking about Washington here. I certainly hope I’m wrong but I don’t think a damn tihng but idiotic talk will take place until mid-late Nov. if then. As of Monday hundreds of thousands more drop of the UI benefits roles and I’m sure the media and Washington will take the fact that we are no longer listed anywhere as a sigh things are getting better. What a bunch of morons.

billines…..Believe me we do call. I have called until it is ridiculous. Not calling is NOT going to change a thing and nothing will be done next week. They are nothing but a bunch of little kids in a sandbox fighting over toys only the toys this time are peoples lives. We call, write, e-mail and everything else we can think of. I hope the march on Washington next week gets notice for all of us but I suspect the government would rather arrest us for being a problem when the government is the REAL problem. Please don’t think we aren’t doing anything because we are night and day and still looking for work.

Get your facts straight. You are looking at antiquated information.

Sounds great but they are all Silver Spoon Babies like the Bushes and others. I haven’t known a politician yet who wasn’t rich before he took office. They ARE NOT for the little, common folk who really made America what it is and without us it is going to hell. It will and is to a certain extent being run by foreigners and big oil money and eventually it will fall just like Rome did.

If the Republicans are for this bill, they would have passed it back to the House already. They have tried to hold this bill out to advance their own political agendas (ACORN, Home buyers tax credit, etc.) which are totally unrelated to the emergency unemployment bill. They can’t get enough votes to pass anything on their own, so they hold up this bill for weeks trying to add rider amendments while children go hungry, cars and houses are lost, and utilities are shut off. Is this the big picture you speak off?

for the 13 individuals that voted NAY, I hope that someday you feel the pain,and the depression, that many of us are feeling on a day to day bases. We the people deserve better than this, you would not be where you are at today if it was not for us. I am so looking forward to the next vote, I can assure that I will remember all that has held this back from happening.
And for those who voted YEA. Thank you