Unemployment Benefit Ext Fails by 1 vote: Kerry's

by ben frank

Wed, May 12, 2004 11:49AM

yesterday the Senate passed a $170 corp tax cut bill.... Maria Cantwell of Wash offered an amendment to include extending unemployemnt benefits to over 1 million workers.... and it missed by one vote 59-40. (it needed 60 to pass)

Kerry was the only Senator not to vote, he was campaigning in Kentucky.

Shouldn't this have any Kerry supporter rethinking their position... is anybody but bush really a good strategy- will Kerry be any better?

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Tuesday rejected by a single vote Sen. Maria Cantwell's amendment to provide extended federal unemployment benefits to 47,000 Washington workers and more than 1 million others nationwide.

The vote came as the chamber moved toward passage of a $170 billion corporate tax bill that would benefit Boeing, Microsoft and other U.S. exporters and help defuse a mounting trade dispute with the European Union.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/business/story/5063012p-4990803c.html

What's really funny is Kerry's 10 million new jobs promise is by way of corporate tax cuts. So here they give away a huge corp tax cut, and Kerry promises to give away even more... this is a new direction? not!

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