Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Senate Democratic leaders said they would keep working to strike a compromise on reviving expanded jobless benefits, even as the chamber failed to advance the latest plan amid a partisan dispute over amendments.
On a vote of 58-40, with 60 required, the Senate again didn't have the votes to move forward a Democratic proposal to extend the benefits for three months. The cost of the plan, at the demand of Republicans, was covered with budgetary reductions elsewhere.
"We are not going to give up," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters before the vote.
Republicans have been balking at what they characterize as Reid's unwillingness to allow them to offer amendments to the measure. They say Reid and his Democratic colleagues are deliberately avoiding compromise so they can blame Republicans for blocking the jobless benefits.
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