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.
Nelson Kills Unemployment Extension
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July 1, 2010 5:32 a.m.
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