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.
With Carte Goodwin, the youngest replaces the oldest
At 92, Byrd died as the oldest senator ever to be in office and is now changed by Carte Goodwin, who is the youngest senator at age 36. Senate will make sure his first vote is probably the most significant one, according to CBS news. A proposal that has yet to go through that could be extending unemployment benefits, could be voted on minutes after Goodwin is sworn into office on Tuesday morning.
Republicans against extension of benefits
There hasn’t been the 60 votes needed for unemployment extension because of Byrd’s death making passing the bill impossible. 73 more weeks would be added to unemployed workers for benefits. Republicans think that an unemployment extension would make the deficit worse. Democrats believe that the unemployment extension bill would stimulate the economy because unemployment benefit recipients have to spend all the money to survive, which right away puts it back to the economy. 70 percent of American adults, as outlined by a Bloomberg poll on all247news.com, would rather help the unemployment rate than work on the deficit the nation has.
Joe Manchin and Carte Goodwin fight for senator seat?
Until the November general election, Carte Goodwin is going to keep the seat in senate. West Virginia’s senate delegation was already looking towards Goodwin, the Huffington Post reports. His wife, Rochelle, is state director for Senator Jay Rockefeller, Goodwin’s new Democratic colleague. Rockefeller said that Goodwin was “unquestionably among West Virginia’s best and brightest” in a statement made on Friday. Right now, nobody thinks Goodwin will run in November. Joe Manchin, his previous boss, has already placed his dibs on the seat.
More information available at these sites
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
