For those of you who want to know which Republicans voted with Democrats, here they are:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140206-711340.html
Excerpt:
Joining Democrats in voting to advance the bill were four Republicans—Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, Susan Collins of Maine, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
“””Joining Democrats in voting to advance the bill were four RepublicansSens. Dean Heller of Nevada, Susan Collins of Maine, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.””””
My, that was unexpected.
States with the highest unemployment generally don’t have Republican senators (imagine that!) so I can understand Heller’s vote as political savvy, not necessarily an ideological decision. That might be true of the northeastern ones as well but it is hard to say since they are RINOs anyway.
How is it that those off unemployment benefits rose from 1.3 million a month ago to 1.7 million? Doesn’t this actually demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the program?