Nelson Kills Unemployment Extension

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE).
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If Robert Byrd had been alive and on the Senate floor last night, the Democrats would have broken the Republican filibuster of the unemployment insurance extension bill. But Ben Nelson (D-NE) stepped forward to kill the bill and put any extension off until July.

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