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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 888017" data-attributes="member: 1246"><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/10/11/its-official-dem-controlled-senate-votes-down-obamas-jobs-bill/" target="_blank">It’s Official: Dem Controlled Senate Votes Down Obama’s Jobs Bill…</a>Does this mean we won’t have to listen to Obama shriek “pass the bill!” over and over again?<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/10/11/senate_republicans_vote_to_kill_obamas_jobs_bill/" target="_blank">WASHINGTON (AP)</a> — Senate Republicans have voted to kill the White House jobs bill despite weeks of campaign-style barnstorming by President Barack Obama across the country. Forty-six Republicans joined with two Democrats to filibuster the $447 billion plan. That vote was not final. The roll call was kept open Tuesday night to allow Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. to vote. But it would have taken 60 votes in the 100-member Senate to keep the legislation alive. The plan would have included Social Security payroll tax cuts for workers and businesses and other tax relief totaling about $270 billion. There also was to be $175 billion in new spending on roads, school repairs and other infrastructure — as well as jobless aid and help to local governments to avoid layoffs of teachers, firefighters and police officers. Despite President Barack Obama’s exhortations, the Senate prepared to swiftly kill his jobs package Tuesday and the White House and congressional leaders were already moving on to other ways to cut the nation’s painfully high unemployment without raising taxes. Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill didn’t figure to get a single GOP vote, even after his weeks-long campaign-style effort to drum up support for a measure he said would reduce the jobless rate from its current 9.1 percent. </blockquote>

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