Posted on 04/06/2014 8:49:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The Senate on Monday is set to approve legislation that would provide unemployment benefits to people who lost it when the funding expired at the end of last year.
House Republican leaders are not expected to hold a vote on the bill, after raising concerns about paying the unemployed retroactively. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has also said the measure doesn’t include a job creation provision.
The administration has been urging an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour as part of a broader populist pitch by Democrats.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has been working on a deal to raise the wage, but it may not be as large of a hike as the administration is demanding. President Obama will host two events on the economy this week as Democrats seek to pivot the political discussion away from the healthcare law.
Democrats dispute that that the healthcare law will be a liability for the party in this year’s elections, and celebrated the news last week that ObamaCare enrollments topped 7 million.
Still, they argue that jobs and the economy will be the central battleground in November.
“That’s the debate that the election will be about, jobs and the budget,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said last week.
Obama will be hosting two events on the economy this week. On Monday, he will travel to Prince Georges County, Md. to host an event on the economy, and will follow that up with another event Tuesday at the White House.
The renewed focus on the economy comes on the heels of new figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released Friday, that suggested the U.S. is rebounding after a tough winter. In March, 192,000 jobs were added and the unemployment rate remained at 6.7 percent.
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“Obama is RoundUp to any possible economic green shoots.”
I was thinking more in terms of dioxin.
Oh thank God now we can expect NOTHING once again The mans a blithering idiot who thinks he’s intelligent
Doesn’t he have a golf game he needs to tend to?
Please, Obama go golfing, you do less damage that way.
Remember this?
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IOW, Obama lied.
He's channeling Robert the Bruce....
According to a legend, at some point while he was on the run during the winter of 1306–07, Bruce hid in a cave on Rathlin Island off the north coast of Ireland, where he observed a spider spinning a web, trying to make a connection from one area of the cave's roof to another. Each time the spider failed, it began again until it succeeded. Inspired by this, Bruce returned to inflict a series of defeats on the English, thus winning him more supporters and eventual victory.
The story serves to illustrate the maxim: "if at first you don't succeed, try try try again."
Other versions have Bruce in a small house watching the spider try to make its connection between two roof beams;[74] or, defeated for the seventh time by the English, watching the spider make its attempt seven times, succeeding on the eighth try
Shouldn’t this headline really be...
President Obama TRIES to shift focus to economy.
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