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The House is expected to return from its summer recess for an emergency vote which, if passed, could potentially save tens of thousands of teachers' jobs. [...]

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Liz Cheney spread the myth that the stimulus bill has "not worked" to mitigate job losses. In fact, many independent and private analysts have agreed that stimulus spending significantly raised employment over what would have happened without it. [...]

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House Democrats on Tuesday pushed through a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from election-year layoffs. [...]

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House members are giving up a couple of days reconnecting with folks in their districts this week to pass a jobs bill that Democrats say is crucial to the nation's well-being, including those for teachers and other vital state employees. [...]

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Obama?s outspoken bitter half conscientiously and deliberately inserted herself into the public square long before the family moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ? whether it was organizing a Woods Fund panel with her husband and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, taking a publicly-subsidized government job with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley [...]

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The AFL-CIO launched a last-minute telephone blitz to members of Congress, August 9, demanding they approve a bill to provide $26 billion in emergency funding to the states to avert ruinous Medicaid costs and the layoff of 300,000 teachers, and first responders. [...]

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House members are giving up a couple of days reconnecting with folks in their districts this week to pass a jobs bill that Democrats say is crucial to the nation?s well-being. The unusual in-and-out session was called because the Senate waited until last Thursday, after the House had already recessed for its summer break, to pass a $26 billion [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House members returned to steamy Washington in a rare August callback to clear a $26 billion jobs bill with unmistakeable implications for the midterm elections. Is there any way to stop the spending orgy? [...]

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With a tone of sarcasm, a California Republican congressman said Tuesday that he "knows" why members of the House were summoned back to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. [...]

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Michigan Democrat Sander Levin tells C-SPAN the bill before lawmakers called back to Washington Tuesday was sought by 45 governors, Republicans as well as [...]

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The Democrats call their $26 billion, Big Labor/bankrupt states? bailout legislation the ?EduJobs? bill. Let?s inject some truth in advertising. The ?EduJobs? bill is nothing but a BigGovJobs bill ? a massive election season pay-off to Democrat special interests. With your money. [...]

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President Obama, signed a $26 billion jobs bill today designed to save the jobs of millions of teachers, and other government workers. According to the Washington Post , "With economic growth faltering and unemployment stuck at 9.5 percent, ? [...]

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$26 billion jobs bill that will send at least $2.5 billion to California to help balance the state budget and pay the salaries of its schoolteachers. [...]

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Some House Democrats and advocacy groups are getting squeamish about the move to fund the $26 billion jobs bill by making CUTS to FOOD STAMPS, a Federal Assistance Program currently depended on by nearly 41 million Americans. [...]

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Just when you thought the education jobs bill was dead and buried, it gets a pulse. The Senate is scheduled to vote tonight on a measure that would provide $10 billion to stave off education layoffs. And, as an added bonus, the bill would include $16 billion to help states with Medicaid funding. That money is almost as important for education as [...]

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'The House of Representatives plans Tuesday to approve funding that would save an estimated 161,000 teachers' jobs nationwide and pump billions of dollars into depleted state treasuries to help pay health benefits for the poor.' David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? House Democrats have pushed through a $26 billion jobs bill. It's meant to protect 300000 teachers and other nonfederal government [...]

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House Democrats on Tuesday pushed through a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from election-year layoffs. The bill would be paid for mainly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and reducing food stamp benefits for the poor. [...]

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The Senate has already signed off on the package, and Obama plans to sign the bill into law as soon as Tuesday, administration officials said, speeding the [...]

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House Democrats are rolling the dice this week by returning from a recess that had barely begun to pass a $26 billion teacher jobs bill -- at a time when calls for fiscal restraint are dominating the campaign landscape. [...]

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August 10, 2010 - The House of Representatives bravely dragged themselves back to Capitol Hill from their traditional six weeks of stateside work-cation to lock down teachers union votes for November's elections today. The Senate had already passed a version of the $26 billion jobs bill, which includes $10 billion in grants to districts to keep [...]

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Maurice Hinchey on Monday as he spoke of his intent to vote for a $10 billion education jobs bill this week. "It's really an investment in the future," said [...]

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handing President Obama a long-sought victory on his election-year jobs agenda. The bill advanced by a vote of 61 to 38, breaking a GOP filibuster and [...]

18 Jun 2010 The Senate effectively rejected a slimmed-down package of jobless benefits and state aid late Thursday, rebuffing President Obama's call for [...]

24 Feb 2010 Republicans and some Democrats were unhappy that Reid brought the jobs bill to the floor after abruptly dumping about $70 billion worth of [...]