edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
After attempting to derail the process because their counterparts would not hear a series of unrelated amendments, Senate Republicans have finally exhausted all of their options for blocking a bill extending federal unemployment insurance to jobless Americans. Moments ago, the Senate passed its third cloture vote on H.R. 3548 by a 97-1 margin. [...]
From ILCAAP -- the vote is being taken today back in the House; passed the Senate.
These amendments to HB 1306 would allow existing licensed establishments to conduct video gambling for up to 2 years after the date of the approval of an ordinance to ban video gambling. As Rep. Jack [...]
As we've repeatedly highlighted in the past week, Republicans in the Senate have been holding up efforts to extend federal unemployment benefits, attributing the delays to an internal debate over how best to fund an extension. But it turns out that the mysterious yet-to-be-released amendments that they've purportedly been working [...]
Republicans in the Senate have consistently said that they do not intend to defeat an unemployment extension this fall. Instead, they just want the Democratic leadership to consider some amendments they've drafted about the bills' funding mechanism. But if really want to provide more assistance to the nation's jobless, they don't [...]
