Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) “late Thursday afternoon called a rare ‘live quorum’ in the Senate chamber in an effort to break an impasse over a one-month extension to unemployment insurance benefits,” Roll Call reports.
Reid called the live quorum call – during which the Sergeant-at-Arms is authorized to compel Members to come to the chamber – following more than an hour of unsuccessful negotiations on the Senate floor with Republicans and Democrats.
Reid spokesman Jim Manley said the quorum call is “an attempt to bring all the Members of the Senate together to try and figure out how to proceed” on unemployment insurance, adding that “the question is whether we’re going to work through the weekend or if we can work something out” Thursday night.
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From:
http://takeamericaforward.com/economy/unemployment-benefits-stimulus/
“Unemployment benefits are (and have been) an ongoing stimulus shoring up the basic economy, Without those benefits, businesses providing basic needs would be observably under much more economic duress.”
What the objectors should confront is that UI has been an ongoing 10 billion per month stimulus.
If benefits cease before jobs are regained, the lost patronage referred to above could push the economy over the edge.
The plan at the above link, keeps the stimulus of UI AND creates jobs!