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Senate rejects extended federal unemployment benefits
AP ^
| 5/11/2004 14:25
| Mary Dalrymple
Posted on 05/11/2004 1:14:09 PM PDT by TexasCajun
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate by a single vote rejected an election-year effort Tuesday to extend federal unemployment benefits.
Democrats tried to attach the benefit to a corporate tax bill. On a 59-40 vote in the GOP-controlled Senate, they fell just shy of the 60 votes needed to overcome objections that extending the benefits violated last year's budget agreement.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2004; awol; benefits; issues; kerry; missedvote; unemployment; unemploymentbenefits
I love it! David Wade, the reason you didn't succeed this time is because your man failed to show up for work. Again!
To: TexasCajun
Kerry will have a hard time explaining this to his buds down at the labor union hall.
To: TexasCajun
Kerry spokesman David Wade said, ''John Kerry has fought again and again to extend unemployment benefits for workers left behind in the Bush economy. The reason we haven't succeeded is because George Bush opposes extending unemployment insurance and so do his allies in the Republican House of Representatives and 39 Republican senators.
To: TexasCajun
Kerry 'fighting' for the little guy again.
To: TexasCajun
I think democrats are staying unemployed to keep the numbers up. Now they'll have to go back to work. Good news for America=bad news for dems.
To: TexasCajun
He voted for the extension before he decided not to show up and vote for it!
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posted on
05/11/2004 1:22:27 PM PDT
by
Nasty McPhilthy
(Some days you're the Windshield....and some days you're the Bug.)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
Kerry tell your free loaders that they will have to find a job now.
7
posted on
05/11/2004 1:28:22 PM PDT
by
jocko12
To: Semper Paratus
Kerry missed this vote....again....
8
posted on
05/11/2004 1:32:25 PM PDT
by
smiley
To: TexasCajun
Fellow Freepers here is the best part!
Kerry was the only Democrat Senator absent from the voting!
His vote would have given the 60 needed!
But he was out talking about voting instead of voting!
Another Gaff!!!!!
9
posted on
05/11/2004 1:32:32 PM PDT
by
Pylot
To: Pylot
Doh!
10
posted on
05/11/2004 1:35:19 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: TexasCajun
What is Kerry's voting record for 2004?
He has missed an incredible numbers of votes this year, maybe 80%???
Freeper Help Please.
To: TexasCajun
TANSTAAFL
12
posted on
05/11/2004 1:45:19 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Where arms are not to be carried, it is well to carry arms.")
To: TexasCajun
"I actually voted for extending unemployment benefits before I skipped the vote."
13
posted on
05/11/2004 1:46:47 PM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: TexasCajun
Kerry will find some way to blame it on Bush. Look as what those nasty Republicans went & did.
To: TexasCajun
Thanks very much for posting this because I was about to post it. I emailed Ed Gillespie and asked him to please make an ad about this. I can't believe that the GOP wouldn't! What a gift! It's a hoot! hehehehe!
To: Pylot; All
Isn't that the kicker though?! I love it! Everybody please email Ed Gillespie and ask him to make an ad on this. The President's ads have been great so far.
To: Lady In Blue
He voted for it, before he neglected to show up and vote for it. HA!
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posted on
05/11/2004 4:49:53 PM PDT
by
Swanks
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