Senate blocks money for teachers, firefighters

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Nine days after President Obama's $447 billion jobs package was blocked in the U.S. Senate, a key plank of the plan that would provide $35 billion to states to hire teachers and first responders suffered the same fate late Thursday.

The vote represented the legislative angle of a broad political strategy by Democrats designed to convince voters they are pushing popular job creation bills but are being thwarted by Republican opposition.

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Philip Kennicott 21 Oct, 2011

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