Senator Ben Nelson No to Unemployment Benefit Extension
Senate Fiddles While Jobless Workers Suffer And have they ever been using it on the pending jobs/tax bill (H.R. 4213) that the House sent over in late May. I thought by now I'd be telling you what the Senate managed to pass. Instead, I've been following a seemingly endless round of amendments and insider reports on what Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Finance Committee, has been doing to get a couple of Republicans on board. He figured he'd probably need at least two because Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) had said that he wouldn't vote for anything — no extended unemployment benefits, no emergency aid to the states, no extension of the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund, no nothing — unless it was totally offset by other spending cuts, revenue raisers or a combination of both. As of Thursday, the already-curtailed unemployment benefits extension had taken another hit. The extra $25 per week that's been in unemployment checks since Congress passed the economic rec
