From Politico…
Congress is poised to go home for the July 4th recess, leaving millions of jobless workers in the lurch because of a continued Senate impasse over financing unemployment benefits.
Democrats fell one vote shy of the 60 needed in the Senate Wednesday night to end debate, and by the time lawmakers return July 12, the government estimates that as many as 2 million workers will be without assistance.
The death of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) this week and defection of Sen. Ben Nelson (D—Neb.), a fiscal conservative from a low-unemployment state, helped to seal the fate.
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