{"id":528681,"date":"2010-04-15T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82422"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:54:44","slug":"senate-shoots-down-efforts-to-offset-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528681","title":{"rendered":"Senate Shoots Down Efforts to Offset Unemployment Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats&#8217; hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival of the deadline to file for new tiers, which came and went on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma Republican &#8212; known not endearingly as &#8220;Dr. No&#8221; &#8212; has insisted that the new costs be offset with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. Democrats, on the other hand, want to tack the costs onto the deficit.<span id=\"more-82422\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today, Coburn has been at it again, offering two separate amendments that would have forced Democrats to offset the new spending.\u00a0Both were shot down, but they did accomplish one thing: They&#8217;ve stalled the passage of a bill that could be helping hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers weather the jobs crisis, thereby keeping the Democrats from tackling other priorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/69795\/gops-go-to-play-stall\" >Don&#8217;t say they aren&#8217;t consistent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats&#8217; hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival of the deadline to file for new tiers, which came and went on April 5. The Oklahoma Republican &#8212; known not endearingly as &#8220;Dr. No&#8221; &#8212; has insisted that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528681","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}