{"id":364584,"date":"2010-02-25T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/scott-brown-crosses-the-aisle-to-advance-democratic-jobs-bill\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:01:51","slug":"scott-brown-crosses-the-aisle-to-advance-democratic-jobs%c2%a0bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/364584","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brown Crosses The Aisle To Advance Democratic Jobs\u00a0Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Scott+Brown_1961_19633063_0_0_7051808_300.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Brown crosses the aisle to advance Democratic jobs bill \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">The $15 billion jobs bill that was kept alive on Monday by five republicans who crossed the aisle to support cloture, including newly elected Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.), passed in the Senate on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Brown and four other Republicans joined 57 Democrats in voting to block a GOP-led filibuster of the jobs bill, which was championed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I came to Washington to be an independent voice, to put politics aside and to do everything in my power to help create jobs for Massachusetts families,&quot; said Brown, who represents the 41st Republican vote in the Senate. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This jobs bill is not perfect &#8230; but I voted for it because it contains measures that will help put people back to work,&quot; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Brown also noted that he wished the tax cuts for businesses outlined in the bill were deeper and more expansive. <\/p>\n<p>If passed, the bill will exempt businesses from Social Security payroll taxes if they hire the unemployed as well as give them another $1,000 tax credit if new workers remain on the job for a full year, according to <i>Fox News<\/i>. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19633063-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19633063\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $15 billion jobs bill that was kept alive on Monday by five republicans who crossed the aisle to support cloture, including newly elected Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.), passed in the Senate on Wednesday. Brown and four other Republicans joined 57 Democrats in voting to block a GOP-led filibuster of the jobs bill, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}