Democrats won the vote of Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine to pass an extension of unemployment benefits Wednesday, but it wasn’t enough to overcome obstruction by the remainder of the Senate GOP. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says Democrats will try again to break an ongoing Republican filibuster of unemployment extension legislation once a replacement is named for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who died Monday. But that leaves more than 1 million jobless Americans in limbo at...
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Democrats Pick Up Snowe, But GOP Filibuster Of Unemployment Extension Stands
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