Senate Republicans are fillibustering H.R. 4213, the Jobs Act of 2010, which would extend federal aid to state Medicaid programs. Beyond the fact that they were supposedly against the practice of fillibustering. they've taken a truly indefensible position: opposing the extension of unimployment benefits and COBRA (the insurance of last resort for the unemployed), as well as adequate funding for Medicare. The end result of this obstinacy is that more than half the states, including PA, will have to go back to the drawing board on their budgets.
