Congress is one vote away from resuming unemployment payments
Congress is one House vote away from resuming unemployment payments to millions of people whose benefits have lapsed as the nation suffers through a wretched job market.
Today the Senate passed the unemployment benefits extension bill 60-40 as two Republicans, Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, voted in favor of the bill while one Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted against the bill.