Which Democrats Voted Down Jobs Legislation?

Terrance Heath - Ourfuture.org - Congress has sent a clear message to unemployed Americans squeezed by this economy: You’re on your own. Help is not coming now, nor likely to come later. That's the message sent by the Senate's scaled back jobs legislation, and the Senate vote that slammed the door on any real action to create jobs or save job.

The 56-to-40 vote left Democrats with no clear path forward on legislation that, among other things, would protect doctors from a 21 percent drop in Medicare reimbursement rates, reauthorize extended unemployment benefits, and provide $24 billion in federal assistance to state Medicaid programs, preventing an expected wave of public sector layoffs.

"Tonight, every single Republican voted to deny states critical aid that would keep firefighters, police offices and teachers employed," said Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "And tonight, every single Republican voted to tell the one in ten Americans who have lost their jobs that they are on their own."
By the end of this week, 903,000 people who have been unemployed for longer than six months will have missed benefits checks they would otherwise have received had Congress managed to reauthorize the stimulus bill provisions that expired on June 1. By the end of next week, that number will climb to 1.2 million.

42 Democrats voted along with Republicans (with the exception of Rep. Cao, of New Orleans) to deny both help and hope to those 1.2 million Americans facing long-term joblessness.

In the HOUSE:

1. Bean (IL)
2. Boyd (FL)
3. Bright (AL)
4. Connolly (VA)
5. Cooper (TN)
6. Donnelly (AZ)
7. Driehaus (OH)
8. Edwards (TX)
9. Giffords (AZ)
10. Herseth (SD)
11. Hill (IN)
12. Himes (CT)
13. Inslee (WA)
14. Klein (FL)
15. Kosmas (FL)
16. Kratovli (MD)
17. Markey (CO)
18. McIntyre (NC)
19. McMahon (NY)
20. McNerney (CA)
21. Michaud (ME)
22. Minnick (ID)
23. Mitchell (AZ)
24. Murphy (CT)
25. Murphy (NY)
26. Nye (VA)
27. Polis (CO)
28. Salazar (CO)
29. Smith (WA)
30. Taylor (MS)

The Senate: SENATE

1. Bayh (IN)
2. Begich (AK)
3. Feingold (WI)
4. Kohl (WI)
5. Landrieu (LA)
6. Lieberman (CT)
7. McCaskill (MO)
8. Menendez (NJ)
9. Nelson (NE)
10. Nelson (FL)
11. Pryor (AR)
12. Webb (VA)

Read the rest of Terrance Heath's article here.

Have a great weekend NoJobSurvivors.

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