Harry Reid looks for jobs vote this week

I sincerely hope that a vote happens this week. This has gone on for too long. Too many people are hurting and it is unnecessary. We elected them to do a job and they are not doing it. If these people were on my staff, they would be facing some form of corrective discipline.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday he’s ready for a vote on a $35 billion jobs bill benefiting teachers, cops and firefighters – the first part to be broken off from President Barack Obama’s defeated jobs package.

The Senate will “vote on our bill this week,” the Nevada Democrat told a crowd of hundreds gathered at a Capitol Hill rally. Reid filed cloture on the Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act on Wednesday night, setting up a key procedural vote by Friday before the Senate leaves on a planned weeklong recess.

Backers of the legislation, to be financed by a new 0.5 percent surtax on millionaires, say it would save or create 400,000 jobs for teachers, police officers and firefighters.

But Republicans and a handful of Democrats oppose the bill, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called on Democrats to take up “bipartisan jobs legislation that’s designed to pass, not fail.”

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