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NAACP
S. 1447 / Aviation Security / Extend Unemployment Benefits.
Motion to invoke cloture (thus limit debate) on the Carnahan (D-MO) amendment to authorize $1.9 billion in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 to extend unemployment,
job-training and health benefits to aviation industry workers displaced as a result of the attacks on September 11, 2001. Three-fifths of those voting are needed to
invoke cloture, and the motion failed.AFL-CIO
AVIATION WORKER RELIEF—S. 1447.
Tens of thousands of aviation industry workers were laid off because of the economic impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The aviation security bill introduced in the Senate contained $15 billion in loans and loan guarantees for the airlines but failed to provide any assistance to those workers.
Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-Mo.) offered an amendment that would have provided unemployment, job-training and health benefits to displaced workers. However, Republican leaders and most Republican senators opposed the amendment and mounted a filibuster against it. A motion to end the filibuster and vote on the Carnahan amendment failed.
International Union, UAW
Senate Kills Assistance for Aviation Industry Workers.
After the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Senate took up legislation to improve airline security. At that time, the UAW and other unions backed an amendment by Senator Carnahan (D-Mo.) to provide unemployment benefits, job training and health care coverage to laid off workers in the aviation industry. However, the Bush Administration and Senate Republicans strongly opposed this amendment, and ultimately used a filibuster to kill it. An effort to invoke cloture to cut off the filibuster failed. It takes 60 votes to invoke cloture to cut off a filibuster.
Service Employees International Union
Unemployment for Displaced Workers.
On October 11, the U.S. Senate missed a chance to help tens of thousands of airline and related industry workers who lost their livelihoods as a result of being laid off in the wake of the September 11, World Trade Center attack. Senator Jean Carnahan (D-MI) offered a fair, affordable, and extremely limited assistance package for aviation workers. On a procedural vote, the Senate was denied the opportunity to debate and vote on the package, that would have helped 150,000 workers who lost their jobs as a direct result of the September 11, attacks. It was a vote against giving those workers unemployment insurance, maintain health insurance, and future jobs training. 60 votes were needed to consider the Carnahan amendment. The motion failed.