<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0888812b-a799-42c2-943a-c8fdb54ef819/1A06794C-A338-4CC8-9E6B-BFA81C881F9C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/143788/after_5_weeks%2C_3_gop_filibusters_and_200%2C000_americans_running_out_of_bennies%2C_obama_to_sign_unemployment_extension/" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/143788/after_5_weeks%2C_3_gop_filibusters_and_200%2C000_americans_running_out_of_bennies%2C_obama_to_sign_unemployment_extension/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/143788/after_5_weeks%2C_3_gop_filibusters_and_200%2C000_americans_running_out_of_bennies%2C_obama_to_sign_unemployment_extension/"><P class="storyheadline">After 5 Weeks, 3 GOP Filibusters and 200,000 Americans Running Out of Bennies, Obama to Sign Unemployment Extension</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/143788/after_5_weeks%2C_3_gop_filibusters_and_200%2C000_americans_running_out_of_bennies%2C_obama_to_sign_unemployment_extension/"><P>The good news is, President Obama will sign a measure today to <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110505439.html">extend unemployment benefits</A> for at least 14 weeks for people out of work. It's money well spent -- it helps struggling people, and the investment tends to be stimulative -- and with new, discouraging job numbers, the timing is right.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/143788/after_5_weeks%2C_3_gop_filibusters_and_200%2C000_americans_running_out_of_bennies%2C_obama_to_sign_unemployment_extension/"><P>"Given the employment situation and the general bang for the buck you get from unemployment insurance, that's probably the most sensible of the stimulative policies to extend," Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110505439.html">said</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/143788/after_5_weeks%2C_3_gop_filibusters_and_200%2C000_americans_running_out_of_bennies%2C_obama_to_sign_unemployment_extension/">Because even though Republicans were allowed to tack on a tax cut to the bill as the price of getting it passed, they decided to filibuster anyway</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/politics/143788/after_5_weeks%2C_3_gop_filibusters_and_200%2C000_americans_running_out_of_bennies%2C_obama_to_sign_unemployment_extension/"><P>Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wondered yesterday why any lawmaker would deliberately hold up unemployment benefits during a recession. "<A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/gop-folds-on-unemployment_n_346259.html">Who are they representing?</A>" she wondered.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A06794C-A338-4CC8-9E6B-BFA81C881F9C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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