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McConnell Ties Jobless Benefits to Obamacare Delay

By Meredith Shiner

Posted June 30, 2015 at 12:30pm

By Meredith Shiner

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Attention President Barack Obama and the 1.3 million Americans who lost their unemployment insurance coverage Dec. 28: Senate Republicans say they will extend the federal jobless benefits program … but only if Democrats agree to delay the health care law’s individual mandate to pay for it.

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