{"id":528850,"date":"2010-04-15T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82452"},"modified":"2010-04-15T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:13:54","slug":"senate-reaches-deal-on-unemployment-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528850","title":{"rendered":"Senate Reaches Deal on Unemployment Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve been stalled on it for weeks, but tonight the Senate will vote on final passage of legislation providing a short-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, behind Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), have been fighting the $18 billion proposal because the Democrats didn&#8217;t offset the cost with spending cuts elsewhere. But the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this evening that Democrats have rallied a few Republicans behind the bill, leading Coburn to agree to tonight&#8217;s vote on final passage.<span id=\"more-82452\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bill extends the filing deadline for UI benefits through June 2 (retroactive to April 5), allowing those who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state benefits to access emergency federal help. It <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77922\/unemployment-extension-does-not-create-additional-benefits\" >does not, however, create an additional tier of benefits<\/a> for those who have exhausted everything they&#8217;re eligible for.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the UI provision, the bill also extends COBRA health benefits and delays a scheduled 21 percent pay cut for doctors treating Medicare patients.<\/p>\n<p>After passage in the Senate, the bill will move to the House, where lawmakers are expected to pass it quickly. It then moves to Obama&#8217;s desk to become law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve been stalled on it for weeks, but tonight the Senate will vote on final passage of legislation providing a short-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits. Republicans, behind Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), have been fighting the $18 billion proposal because the Democrats didn&#8217;t offset the cost with spending cuts elsewhere. But the office of Senate [&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-528850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528850","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=528850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}