Senate Democrats, emphasizing that 7,000 people a day are running out of unemployment insurance benefits, pushed Tuesday for action on legislation to extend those benefits for up to 20 weeks.
The Senate was to vote later in the day on whether to take up the measure that would provide up to 14 weeks in extra financial aid for everyone exhausting their benefits by the end of the year, and another six weeks for those living in the 27 states where the unemployment rate is at least 8.5 percent. Sixty votes were needed to advance the measure.
The House passed a less generous benefit extension more than a month ago, but Senate Republicans, at odds with Democrats over what amendments they can offer to the bill, have blocked Senate consideration.
Again, because the economy is in the shitter, they are going to have to keep extending the benefits for a couple of years.
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