Unemployment Benefits: extensions after EB, part 3

[NorCalDubber]

Not unemployment.

[Mr North Jersey]

Originally Posted by NorCalDubber

Not unemployment.

LoL, Circle gets the square!!!

[Chubz]

my honest opinion is they have to get this passed either tomorrow or first par tof next week. I think the president has no choice but to get in this if nothing is done. I think the Obama admin figured the senate was tackling it and let them handle it. Now that they are acting like a bunch of kids I think he has no choice but to step in here.

This will get passed, there's no way it can't. Its political suicide for all involved, democrat or republican. And they better do it soon, the problem is only going to get worse.

None of those amedments has any right on this bill. This was an emergency bill created for quick passage. With how long its taking now, they should have just went with the original version of this bill that addressed everything. because now its going to become somewhat of a big financial bill. Which is exactly the reason why they streamlined this bill, so it didnt get caught up in a financial debate.

[mf4576]

They are voting if I should go out of my house in North Caldwell and stand in traffic

[Mr North Jersey]

Reid, McConnell Still in Knots Over Unemployment Bill

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) traded verbal jabs on the Senate floor Thursday over a stalemate that has blocked action on a popular unemployment benefits package.

So what round is this in and is there a no knockdown rule in effect?

[Mr North Jersey]

I demand Senator McConnell let the unemployment extension bill pass without delay.

To: NBC News, Your U.S. Senators and The President of the United States, see more...Sen. Harry Reid (NV), Sen. Mitch McConnell (KY), Brown Forman Corporation, NBC News, Your U.S. Senators and The President of the United States
Started by: Liberal Democratic Party Of The United States
I demand Senator McConnell let the unemployment extension bill pass without delay.
Until this unemployment bill gets enacted into law, I refuse to do business with Senator McConnell's campaign contributor Brown Forman Corporation of Kentucky the distributor of Jack Daniel's whiskey and Southern Comfort.
Do as we ask or your friends at Brown Forman lose our business.

McConnell has no choice now woo hoo

[NorCalDubber]

Just hope they can get it done in the 2 days they are in next week.

[diorgirl]

Originally Posted by Chubz

With how long its taking now, they should have just went with the original version of this bill that addressed everything. because now its going to become somewhat of a big financial bill. Which is exactly the reason why they streamlined this bill, so it didnt get caught up in a financial debate.

Just FYI --

09/10/2009 - McDermott introduced HR 3548 (streamlined version of HR 3404) in the House of Representatives.

09/22/2009 - Passed by the House of Representatives and received in the Senate the same day.

10/08/2009 - Reid proposed S.Amdt. 2668 to strengthen the House bill (HR3548) by increasing unemployment extension to 14 weeks for all states and and additional 6 weeks for states with unemployment rates of at least 8.5 percent.

10/08/2009 - Read for the first time in the Senate.

Lots of debate in the interim, but really no significant forward progress has been made on passage since 10/08/2009.

[Mr North Jersey]

Reid just said he doesn't want it to seem like he is the boy who cried wolf when he once again threatened the senate has a more than 50% chance of working next weekend.

Somehow I think it is too late for him on that one I can see him in his hunters uniform trekking through the snow just like Disney's "Peter and the Wolf" with McConnell as the Wolf.

[ctcpete]

I read that the wording of the bill indicated that it would include only those whose benefits run out by the end of the year. I may miss that deadline by a week or two. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks