Democrats in the Senate and Republicans in the House of Representatives clashed once more, this time regarding a law project which seeks to reestablish unemployment benefits which have expired for 2.4 million American who have been unemployed for the last six months.
The law project, approved by the democrat majority in the Senate will face an uncertain destiny in the House of Representatives, dominated by republicans who oppose the measure which, they say, doesn't do enough to stimulate the creation of jobs in the country, according to The USA Today.
With 59 votes in favor and 38 against, the law project approved on Tuesday must be approved by the House of Representatives before becoming a law, a scenario specialists have described as unlikely.
John Boehner, republican representative from Ohio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, assured that he will not support the measure unless it includes dispositions to create more jobs.
"I made clear that if we're going to consider dealing with emergency unemployment, we ought to do something about creating better jobs in America, higher wages in America," said Boehner, reported USA Today.
Shortly after the Senate approved the project, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, asked republicans to approve the project which will continue to support over 2 million unemployed Americans.
"The Senate just took action on a bipartisan bill" to renew unemployment insurance, Obama said in a Twitter message. "It's up to the House to follow suit." reported Reuters.
Yesterday the Senate voted to renew unemployment insurance, but there's still more work to do. See how you can help: https://t.co/3Bi5u3AIyL
- Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 8, 2014
According to the same source, Dean Heller, one of the few republicans who support the bipartisan project told the media that he wants to meet with Boehner to get the measure to advance.
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