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Friday, September 21, 2012

Forty repugican senators vote to kill the Vets Job Bill


A motion before the Senate this morning that would waive budgetary discipline (because the bill was fully funded) failed to pass and killed S. 3457: Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012, sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). The final tally was 58 to 40, and all 40 opponents of the proposal were Republicans.
What had been, up until Sen. Session’s objection, a bi-partisan bill, quickly became a partisan exploitation of a technicality to deny thousands of veterans a shot at getting hired as police officers, firefighters and parks workers, among other things.
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