More than 400,000 Americans exhausted their unemployment benefits on October 1, 2009. That number is expected to reach over a million by the end of the year. Still, a small minority of Republican Senators are playing politics with a compromise bill that would extend benefits for those individuals and their families.
The group, led by Republican Senator Jon Kyl (AZ), is holding up legislation that would provide every state at least 14 weeks of additional benefits. States with an unemployment rate of at least 8.5 percent will receive an additional 20 weeks.
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Mon. October 19, 2009
How can a handful of people in the senate hold up a bill like this. Those senators who are not in agreement with this bill have to face the people in their states who do not have any income coming in? Can someone get this passed in a hurry a lot of us are suffering with no life line.Thu. October 15, 2009
If the democrats have a filibuster-proof majority in the House and Senate, why is a handful of republicans able to hold up this bill? Doesn't make sense to blame only one of the parties.