by Bill Scher | Feb 6, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
Republicans today ended all doubt: They do not want to help the long-term unemployed. Given a bill that would help for a mere three extra months without adding to the deficit, Republicans refused to let the majority rule and filibustered the legislation. If only one...
by Bill Scher | Feb 6, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
Today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to call a vote on a new compromise bill to retroactively provide and extend unemployment insurance for the long-term unemployed. In this version, Reid and the Democrats have met the Republican demands, yet...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
Senate Republicans have been using the filibuster to block the extension of long-term unemployment benefits. There are rumors of a "deal" that gives Republicans a payoff to stop obstructing the extension. The price this time is "pension smoothing," which means letting...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 27, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
As Congress reconvenes this week, it faces one overriding imperative: Act immediately to renew emergency benefits for the long-term unemployed. Today, you can tell the Senate to make this their first priority. Call one of your senators now using our...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2014 | The Jobs Challenge, Unemployment Benefits
[fve]http://youtu.be/IodMh1T-eVw[/fve] As Republican senators were preparing to head to their home states Thursday for a week-long recess, several of them told The Huffington Post's Michael McAuliff that they have no regrets about filibustering an extension of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 13, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
Republicans are engaged in yet more hostage-taking obstruction. (Whatever gave them the idea that hostage-taking can work?) They are engaged in a filibuster of the effort to extend unemployment insurance, using it as a hostage to try to get even more cuts to the...
