WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Senate surprisingly announced a deal Thursday to restore unemployment insurance benefits to more than 2 million long-term unemployed Americans.
Optimism for a deal appeared low as early as Wednesday, when several senators said they didn’t think a compromise would be reached before the chamber left Friday for a week-long break. But late Thursday afternoon, a group of 10 senators led by Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., said they had a deal to reauthorize emergency unemployment insurance benefits for five months.
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