GOP Filibuster on Unemployment Benefits Defeated on Fourth Attempt

How many unemployed miss the 4.2% unemployment , thriving economy, and record stock markets with small businesses booming from coast to coast that we had under Bush , up until the Democrats took over the houses in 2007? We also had a terrible economy under Clinton until the Republicans replaced the Democrats and ran both houses. Any of you unemployed see a pattern here?

One of the huge oil rigs that just left the Gulf for Africa stated that Political unrest was there reason for leaving the U.S. The Democrats that did not want to use either stimulous funds or any of that huge amount of repaid TARP funds to pay for this extention , and there is far more wasteful pork in this bill ,than actual funds for unemployment. Wake up Americans... The Democrats just want to keep on using the Federal credit card like a bunch of undisiplined teenagers.

bp darling....people took their money out of the market when they listened to Obama and saw that he was the lead in the horse race. They paid attention to Carter and knew what was coming,.

When the administration comes to reality about the deflated Dept of Labor unemployment rates maybe it would put an end to debates and take more time to find ways of creating jobs in OUR COUNTRY and keep them HERE.

WHY IS IT THAT A GOODLY MUNBER OF ECONOMISTS BELIEVE THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE TO BE CLOSER TO 22% (WHICH I AGREE WITH ) THAN DOL'S 9.5% ?

I am soooooo tired of people who are lucky enough to have jobs complaining about us who drew the short straw and got laid off from our jobs. I have worked all my life since I was 14 years old, I am now 57 and apparently unemployable. I've tried applying for full-time positions, part-time positions and so far no luck...so all of you out there thinking all we want to do is sit back and collect unemployment...read my lips...THIS IS NOT TRUE...unemployment just gets us by..does not afford me the little bit of the luxury I was once used too..such as a vacation once, maybe twice a year..dinner with friends once a month..it's all gone now and this is what I have to look forward to until the day I die...trying to survive. I sit in my house while my friends can enjoy. It makes me soooo sick you can't even imagine..no one can, especially our political reps, who always seem to be employed.

The job killers are gloating because they won an extension for the unemployment benefits that they made necessary. Now they want a pat on the back for giving the American taxpayer a kick in the rear.

So both husband and wife were employed. Wife/husband gets laid off and collects unemployment. No need to pay for child care. Hmm. Just wondering if the incentive to find work is really there.

The Republicans are right. LET THEM EAT CAKE! But the unemployed are to cowerdly to revolt!

What happens after my 3rd extension runs out? I have a diffucult time trying to get information from Human Resource Department. HRD asked me to wait until I have a ZERO balance on my UC claim receipt - then they will talk to me. In the meantime, does anyone know if there is going to be a 4th extension? At 63 I haven't been getting any job offers at all - but I keep trying anyway.

Thank you Senator Goodwin. Now all we voters need vote OUT everyone who wanted this bill defeated! I recently drove through Detroit and what I say made me sick. The city is a Ghost town. I'm from Ohio and SE Ohio is just about as dismal. We used to have a thriving beautiful country, vibrant and alive. We as voters need to clean house in the Senate and the Congress. We need to spend more time "sweeping our own front steps", GET IT TOGETHER PEOPLE, WE ONLY HAVE ONE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE -THE -PEOPLE have got to get this done. As far as our President - remember the old saying about SOWS EARS AND SILK PURSES!! He stepped into a mine field to put it mildly and he can only do so much with what he has to work with. His heart is in the right place which is more than I see from some of his co-workers. GET OUT AND VOTE!!!