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Related: About this forumG.O.P. Blocks Veteran Jobs Bill
Veterans wont be getting a new, billion-dollar jobs program, not from this Senate. Republicans on Wednesday afternoon blocked a vote on the Veterans Job Corps Bill after Jeff Sessions of Alabama raised a point of order he said the bill violated a cap on spending agreed to by Congress last year. The bills sponsor, Patty Murray of Washington, said that shouldnt matter, since the bills cost was fully offset by new revenues. She said Mr. Sessions and his party colleagues had been furiously generating excuses to oppose the bill, and were now exploiting a technicality to deny thousands of veterans a shot at getting hired as police officers, firefighters and parks workers, among other things.
The vote was 58-40; the bill needed 60 votes to proceed.
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/g-o-p-blocks-veteran-jobs-bill/
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MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Which two are missing?
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)anybody know?
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Earth Bound Misfit
(3,554 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)This needs to be out there for all to see.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)GEOpix
(65 posts)the Senate Republicans obstruct another jobs bill. Maybe, for once, they should pass one and take some credit for bipartisanship.
VespertineIconoclast
(1,130 posts)I'm glad that Rachel Maddow spent a segment ripping into the Repukes for this.
This travesty of a vote needs to repeated over and over again to demonstrate the complete lack of caring or concern the G.O.P. have for our military service men and women.