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Mother Jones- GOP to Jobless Vets: Drop Dead

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As if to underscore Mitt Romney's indifference to the 47 percent, his Republican Party colleagues in the US Senate used a procedural vote Wednesday to block a $1 billion bipartisan bill that would have given tens of thousands of jobless military vets the opportunity to work. Forty Republicans succeeded in blocking the bill Wednesday afternoon.

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