Senate Dems Again Fail to Pass 'Doc Fix' and Unemployment Extension - The Note
June 17, 2010 9:19 PM
ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports:
There are going to be a whole lot of angry Medicare doctors banging on lawmakers' doors tomorrow.
Senate Democrats just failed for the second time this week to get the 60 votes they need for a host of expiring social programs and corporate tax credits.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb, voted with Republicans.
The expiring provisions include extending emergency unemployment benefits for the long unemployed and averting a 21 percent pay cut for Medicare doctors. The latter is an ongoing issue in Washington, where deficit reduction laws known as the Sustainable Growth Rate mandate cuts to keep Medicare solvent but lawmakers periodically pass legislation to ignore them. The cuts have piled up over the years.
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