Carte Goodwin, an aide to West Virginia governor Joe Manchin, was appointed by Manchin to fill the seat left vacant by the June 28 death of Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. Unemployed Americans have been waiting patiently for Goodwin to take the seat and change their lives. Every person expects that Goodwin will give the final vote to pass the jobs bill making unemployment benefits go longer.
Carte Goodwin shows the young replacing the old
At 92, Byrd died as the oldest senator ever to be in office and is now replaced by Carte Goodwin, who is the youngest senator at age 36. CBS News reports that His vote will prove critical within the first hour of his service within the Senate. A proposal that has yet to go through that can be extending unemployment benefits, could be voted on minutes after Goodwin is sworn into office on Tuesday morning.
Republicans against extension of benefits
The seat left vacant by Byrd has left Senate democrats without the 60 votes they need for the unemployment extension. The bill would re-establish an additional 73 weeks of benefits to unemployed workers who can’t discover jobs. Republicans have argued that the unemployment extension just adds to the national deficit. The other side argues that the economy would get better when all that money is instantly put back to the economy and is spent. 70 percent of adults aren’t that concerned about the deficit considering they are worried about their own employment, according to a Bloomberg poll shown on all247news.com.
Senator- Joe Manchin or Carte Goodwin?
Carte Goodwin no gets to be in senate until the November general election comes along. The Huffington Post reports that Goodwin already has ties to West Virginia’s Senate delegation. Rochelle, his wife, is a director for his colleague, Senator Jay Rockefeller. Rockefeller called the governor’s pick “unquestionably among West Virginia’s best and brightest” in a Friday statement. Right now, nobody thinks Goodwin will run in November. Joe Manchin already wants to seat too bad.
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CBS News
cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20010823-503544.html
all247news.com
all247news.com/bloomberg-poll-has-7-out-of-10-americans-favoring-unemployment-reduction-over-deficit-reduction/1908/
Huffington Post
huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/16/carte-goodwin-west-virgin_n_648886.html
