Senate Dems strip Republicans of power

Published October 6, 2011 4:00am ET



Senate Republicans tried to embarrass Democrats who don’t support President Obama’s job bill by forcing a vote on the measure Thursday, but Democrats responded by stripping Republicans of legislative power.

The GOP tried to force Democrats to vote on Obama’s $447 billion jobs-creation bill to prove that even the president’s own party doesn’t support the proposal. Republicans tried to attach the jobs bill to a measure dealing with China.

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