Giving these people support is not only humane, it actually helps support spending throughout the economy, creating jobs throughout the private sector.
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Reid argues for supporting unemployed individuals to boost the economy.
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we have now three hours until 10 o'clock. I hope that during that period of time, people will do whatever they need to do to make sure they get anything they want in, whatever they are trying to get. The reason I say that is that we are…
if some rule of the Senate stands in the way of getting that, making sure that every American has the right to vote and the vote counted, then we got to change that rule.
Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
You cannot have a democracy that record 60 percent of the vote on everything. And that’s what the Republicans have done. They have made a mockery of what the Senate should be.





