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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 30 days ago
Obama to sign unemployment extension Friday
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Washington (CNN) - As the White House braces for new numbers coming out Friday that could show unemployment has reached double digits, senior administration officials tell CNN the president is planning to quickly sign legislationjust passed by Congress that will offer up to 20 additional weeks of unemployment insurance. The legislation that will be signed Friday morning also aims to stabilize the housing market with a one-time extension of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers. The ...
CNN Poll: Public wants Congress to keep working on health care
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 30 days ago
CNN Poll: Public wants Congress to keep working on health care
— politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — Nearly six in ten Americans want Congress to continue working on health care reform bills that have... been passed through various committees, according to a new CNN poll. Washington (CNN) - Nearly six in ten Americans want Congress ... (more) CNN Poll: Public wants Congress to keep working on ...

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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 23 days ago
Officials: Top White House lawyer to be pushed out
— politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — In the first major shakeup among President Barack Obama's senior staff, White House Counsel Greg Craig is... being pushed out in favor of veteran Democratic lawyer Bob Bauer because of a dispute over plans to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba, CNN ... (more) Officials: Top White House lawyer to be pushed out  ...

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Fort Hood Massacre: A Day of Courage and Cowardice
pajamasmedia.com - 30 days ago
Fort Hood Massacre: A Day of Courage and Cowardice
— pajamasmedia.com — A self-described "devout Muslim" who praised suicide bombers opens fire on brave American soldiers — and most... people in the mainstream media insist there is no sign of terror. (more) Fort Hood Massacre: A Day of Courage and Cowardice

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Political Animal — ... . President Obama is expected to sign them into law tomorrow. * A dozen right-wing protestors refused to leave Speaker Pelosi's congressional office and were ...

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As GOP Holds Up Unemployment Extension, Nearly 200,000 Lose Their Benefits
huffingtonpost.com 11/3/2009 — In the world outside the Senate, time is money; inside it, time is everything. Senate Republicans are taking full advantage of that reality, using every parliamentary device at their disposal to slow down an extension of unemployment insurance ...
Orszag Curiously Circumspect About Unemployment Insurance Extension (VIDEO) — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Appearing on the Charlie Rose show Tuesday night, White House budget chief Peter Orszag was surprisingly noncommittal about the idea of extending unemployment insurance to people whose benefits have run out. Despite Republican stalling in the Senate, the passage of a 13-week extension of ...
The Unemployment Extension Depends Just as Much on the States as on the White House — Huffington Post
With unemployment topping 10.2%, and 50,000 Americans exhausting their unemployment benefits each week, President Obama is expected to sign a bill today to temporarily extend unemployment insurance payments. However the amount which families will be able to put toward the rent or the grocery ...
Low Standards — Mojo Feed | Mother Jones
Photo by flickr user dionhinchcliffe used under a Creative Commons license. Kevin is sarcastically celebrating the Senate's passage of unemployment insurance extension (which was packaged with the homebuyer tax credit that pretty much every expert thinks is a bad idea): And Democrats ...
Senate expands first time homebuyer program too far — NPI Advocate
Despite some criticisms of the program, the Senate today unanimously approved an extension and expansion of the popular homebuyer tax credit. Since January, the tax credit has been giving first time homebuyers with incomes of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for couples an $8,000 tax break. ...
House Poised to Clear Extension of Jobless Benefits, Homebuyer’s Tax Credit — Top Stories from CQ
With rare bipartisan enthusiasm, the House on Thursday was preparing to clear legislation that will extend unemployment benefits for jobless Americans across the nation, continue a popular tax credit for homebuyers and offer tax relief to money-losing businesses.
Reid Picks Pelosi's Pocket To Pay For Business Tax Break — Huffington Post
In order to fund business tax breaks and an extension of a first-time homebuyers tax credit this week, Harry Reid stole one of Nancy Pelosi's revenue generators, leaving the House Speaker scrambling at the last minute to find billions to cover a funding gap in her health care reform bill. As ...
Senate Democrats to bring unemployment insurance to final vote — News
Senate Democrats succeeded on Wednesday at ending debate on a bill that would extend most Americans' jobless benefits by at least 14 weeks. The 97-1 cloture vote concludes a four-week standoff between the majority party and GOP leaders over the extension, a version of which passed the House in ...
Senate Democrats set to bring unemployment insurance to final vote — Home/News
Senate Democrats succeeded on Wednesday at ending debate on a bill that would extend most Americans' jobless benefits by at least 14 weeks. The 97-1 cloture vote concludes a four-week standoff between the majority party and GOP leaders over the extension, a version of which passed the House in ...
Harry Moroz: Faux Stimulus Is No Stimulus — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
For the past month and a half or so, the Senate has been trying to pass an extension of unemployment insurance. The problem is clear: 7,000 unemployed workers are running out of benefits every day, 400,000 exhausted their benefits at the end of September, and 1.3 million will exhaust them by ...
Partisan Argument Slows Unemployment Benefits Extension — The Note
ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports on the Partisan that is slowing an extension of unemployment insurance Yes, there is a reason for your déjà vu. You might be thinking that Senators overwhelmingly supported a cloture vote regarding an extension of unemployment benefits just last week. They ...
Republican Filibuster Of Unemployment Insurance Extension Broken — DownWithTyranny!
Early in the week the Senate tried taking up Rep. Jim McDermott's rather urgent bill, H.R. 3548 , which would extend unemployment insurance to the hundreds of thousands of American workers for whom it has expired-- the banksters having eaten up all the TARP money in cartel-like mergers and ...
Reid Sets Up Vote on Tax Extensions in Jobless Bill — Top Stories from CQ
The extension and expansion of a tax credit for first-time homebuyers has been incorporated into Senate legislation that would extend unemployment benefits.
Durbin: GOP's Obstruction Of Unemployment Benefits Extension "Fundamentally Unfair" — Crooks and Liars
DOWNLOADS: (39) PLAYS: (74) From Progress Illinois-Durbin: GOP's Obstruction Of Unemployment Benefits Extension "Fundamentally Unfair": Now that the Senate has overcome a procedural hump and voted by a wide margin in favor of cloture on H.R. 3548, an extension of federal unemployment insurance, ...
Still no unemployment insurance extension from the Senate — Newshoggers.com
by Jay McDonough Exactly one week ago today I wrote about the Senate's or, more specifically, Senate Republicans lack of urgency to pass an extension to federal unemployment benefits. Seven thousand Americans per day are losing their unemployment benefits. Four hundred thousand ...
Jobless Benefits Extension One Step Closer — Daily Kos
What should have been passed long ago took another step toward resolution Tuesday. The Senate voted 87-13 for cloture on a motion to proceed to a debate on extending unemployment insurance benefits. It will probably take yet another cloture vote to end that debate and finally get the extension ...
Senate votes to take up jobless benefit extension — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Associated Press[/b] WASHINGTON — After weeks of political haggling, the Senate agreed Tuesday to take up legislation that would give people running out of unemployment insurance benefits up to 20 more weeks of federal aid. Senate Democrats, saying that 7,000 people a day are ...
House Poised to Clear Extension of Jobless Benefits, Homebuyer's Tax Credit (CQPolitics.com) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
CQPolitics.com - With rare bipartisan enthusiasm, the House on Thursday was preparing to clear legislation that will extend unemployment benefits for jobless Americans across the nation, continue a popular tax credit for homebuyers and offer tax ...
Senate acts to extend aid for jobless, homebuyers (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a ...
US Senate approves jobless help extension (AFP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - With jobless numbers soaring and year-end holidays close at hand, the US Senate on Wednesday voted to extend unemployment benefits and expand a vastly popular tax credit for homebuyers.
Reid Sets Up Vote on Tax Extensions in Jobless Bill (CQPolitics.com) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
CQPolitics.com - The extension and expansion of a tax credit for first-time homebuyers has been incorporated into Senate legislation that would extend unemployment benefits.