Reid Blocked Vote On Jobs Bill

Barack Obama repeatedly calls for a vote on his jobs bill.  He continually blames Republicans for there being no vote.  Not one Democrat has sponsored his tax bill he calls a jobs bill and only Harry Reid has sponsored it in the Senate.

In the Senate Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer says Obama's bill won't pass.  They know not even the Senate Democrats will vote for a tax increase during a recession.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), announced that he’d like to give the president what he wants: an immediate vote on the jobs bill.  he said Tuesday afternoon that he would propose a vote on the Obama's jobs bill as it stands right now in its entirely, and would try  to push it into the debate on  the Chinese currency bill that is currently under way on the Senate floor.

“I agree with the president,” McConnell said Tuesday.  ”I think he’s entitled to a vote on his jobs bill. The suggestion that Senate Republicans are not interested in voting on his jobs bill is not true. I think he’s entitled to a vote. … I think we ought to accommodate the president of the United States on a matter that he has been speaking about frequently over the last few weeks and give him his vote.”

“What the president’s asked for is not parts of it but the whole thing,” McConnell said  today.  ”He’s been critical of Congress for not giving him a vote. I think we should. I think he’s entitled to know where the Senate stands on his proposal in its entirety, and that’s why I hope that the majority leader will allow this vote to occur.”

Harry Reid used a set of procedural rules to block  McConnell’s request for a vote on the full jobs bill, keeping it on the back burner for a while longer.

“I’ve said I’m going to bring up the president’s bill,” Reid said in response, adding that that “right away” in  the president’s mantra is a “relative term.”

“We’re going to do it this way period. And I’m disappointed that Sen. McConnell would try to play some kind of games with this important legislation,” Reid said curtly.

McConnell argued that Reid’s blocking the vote signaled that the majority leader did not have the support within his caucus that he  and the president would like and need to pass the bill.

“There is bipartisan opposition to this, and we’ll discuss at what point the majority leader is comfortable with going forward with this proposal,” McConnell said. “My only reason for offering it today was to respond to the question — to the president’s request that we vote on it, and we’re prepared to do that.”

This isn't a jobs bill.  This is a tax bill.  Obama had a stimulus bill.  What did he do with that money?  He paid off unions and contributors to his campaign.  We tax payers are out $1 trillion dollars.  Solyndra though walked away with $500 million of that money.

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