{"id":717401,"date":"2010-04-15T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82422"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:18:40","slug":"senate-shoots-down-efforts-to-offset-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/717401","title":{"rendered":"Senate Shoots Down Efforts to Offset Unemployment Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats&#8217; hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival of the deadline to file for new tiers, which came and went on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma Republican &#8212; known not endearingly as &#8220;Dr. No&#8221; &#8212; has insisted that the new costs be offset with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. Democrats, on the other hand, want to tack the costs onto the deficit.<span id=\"more-82422\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today, Coburn has been at it again, offering two separate amendments that would have forced Democrats to offset the new spending.\u00a0Both were shot down, but they did accomplish one thing: They&#8217;ve stalled the passage of a bill that could be helping hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers weather the jobs crisis, thereby keeping the Democrats from tackling other priorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/69795\/gops-go-to-play-stall\" >Don&#8217;t say they aren&#8217;t consistent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats&#8217; hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival of the deadline to file for new tiers, which came and went on April 5. The Oklahoma Republican &#8212; known not endearingly as &#8220;Dr. No&#8221; &#8212; has insisted that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30CZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819016,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717401\/revisions\/819016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}