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Is this gets approved when will it go back to the house of reps? Do you think they will act on it quickly? and then how long does ot take for the President to sign it? Will we see anything before Thanksgiving?

Why do they keep closing previous forums and starting a new one? lol

:-)

If my benefits are ending six weeks from now will I qualify for the extention?

7,000 people a day losing extended unemployment benefits. Over 200,000 already have lost benefits.

THE LIST of the irresponsible republicans still saying no to passing the H.R.3548 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009. Unbelievable! Everyone pass this list along to everyone you know. And post it everywhere you can on the internet! These politicians do not serve the people and do not deserve their job. Vote them out of office and a job.

Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY]
Sen. Christopher Bond [R, MO]
Sen. Jim Bunning [R, KY]
Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK]
Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX]
Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC]
Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY]
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC]
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, UT]
Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK]
Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL]
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA]
Sen. Roger Wicker [R, MS]

I just made my last Teleserve call...I hope they pass this

Why do people ask these questions like do you think it will happen by thanksgiving? Knowing everyone on these boards really has no better information than you do. The ones with the answers are not reading this stuff! Are you just wanting people to tell you what you want to hear or need sympathy? I don't get it. Don't be afraid to talk to the people that most likely would have the answers.

hedonistic no need to get nasty about it? Obviously you have no answers!!!!

IDES just told me that if your benefits have run out that you will get a letter in the mail if this passes

Does anyone know if the Senate will start talking about the bill in about 15 minutes?

I don't claim to and I don't ask either. I don't rely on board chatter. It really serves no useful purpose.

OK, Thanks GW.

They are getting ready to talk about it now.

at 21 past and they are not talking about it...jeez board chatter

They were.

Started out as unemployment then Durbin went right back into healthcare.

Now they're talking about it.

my benefits don't run out until a few months into 2010.......would this extension help me with additional weeks if I am not able to return to work by then?

Baucus was talking until a few minutes ago, now this repug is talking about pure nonsense. I am glued to this cspan2 thing as if my life depended on it,

I know this is crazy!

PASS THIS THING, YOU OLD REPUG FARTZZZ, WE CAN'T GO ON ANYMORE LIKE THIS, WE ARE DESPERATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they just mentioned bringing this to a close. they are calling names now, WHAT IS HAPPENING????i don’t understand what is going on now. Is someone here watching this????

They are performing another cloture vote to stop debate on the bill.

so does that mean something promising for us? sounds like a good thing, right? thanks InTheSameBoat!

LoveD80s needs to chill

LoveD80s needs to chill -- yeah CHILL!

It means if they pass the cloture vote they will vote on the bill, hopefully sometime this week.

Looks to me like they have the necessary votes to pass it.

what are the qualifications needed to get the job of sitting on the floor next to the desk??? HAHA i want that job

I could do that job and do it really well :)

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IT PASSED!!!!!!!

Cloture passed! Now we wait.

Now we wait 30 hours so the senate can take a final vote, hopefully it will happen tomorrow.

Cloture has passed. Here is our new post on the vote

http://progressillinois.com/2009/11/2/ui-extension-clears-second-cloture

Does anyone know if they have to wait 30hrs?

read at the top

Democrats will have to wait an additional 30 hours before a final vote can be called.

It's 30 "working" hours (like they work, lol). So between the senate and house, that's a minimum of 60 working hours, or 7 1/2 working days, which means at the earliest it could pass is next Thursday the 12th, in the afternoon. Assuming the house passes it, it will probably get to the president for signing on Friday. Then, it has to be approved by the House appropriations committee, which incidentally, is not set to reconvene until the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, which is Dec. 1. Assuming approval, funds must be dispersed to each state, which should be completed at least by the end of that week no problem. After notices are mailed out, and other necessary "paperwork", I'm thinking the soonest anyone will see a check is Monday Dec. 7.

so if you've exhausted benefits by then you will be eliglible or not(say you have 2 or 3 weeks of EUC left currently)??? thanks.

so where is everybody? has someone been watching what has been going in the senate today>? i have not seen any movement in this forum today.....

check that senate schedule website...thats really all you need, most of the stuff on here is way off base speculation and redundant questions.

I just got off the phone with the NC Governor's office. Gary you're right they're saying it will take them up to six weeks to get things worked out. All I can say now I will remember this when it's time to go back to the Polls. Their concerns are about bring movie projects to NC and adding roads and focusing on making everything green in NC. That's great but should'nt the people who helped you now be helped. I don't understand how the government has money for that but nothing for the people who's about to be homeless. I've never been like this before and I pray and hope people will never have to go thorough this again. The only time government cares about people is when they need our votes. I will remember this when election time comes around again.