Senate To Vote On Modest Jobs Bill, Passage Likely The Senate is set to vote today on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) $35 billion jobs bill. Final passage is expected after the bill cleared a Republican filibuster on Monday. The House of Representatives had previously passed a more ambitious $174 billion bill, though it is possible that it could simply be discarded and the Senate’s bill adopted by the House.
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