Senate Again Rejects Obama's Jobs Bill

A section of President Obama’s comprehensive jobs package focused on transportation and infrastructure spending failed a key test today in the Senate.

Needing 60 votes to end debate, the Rebuild America Jobs Act only received the support of 51 Senators, most of them Democrats, who have now failed three times to bring some form of the larger bill to a floor vote.

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.), an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats, voted no alongside the 47 Republicans in the upper chamber.

The $60 billion measure includes repair funding for roads, bridges and airports, and also contains money to establish a national infrastructure bank. Republicans opposed the bill because it was paid for through higher taxes on millionaires.

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