Reply #3: it's a great program that realy helps - link on when the amendment failed

[karynnj]

earlier this summer. The amendment included Murray's summer job bill with Kerry's TANF bill

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans -- along with some Democrats -- defeated a measure to provide $1.3 billion for summer jobs for young people this year and a $1.3 billion extension of enhanced subsidies for poor families with children.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who introduced the amendment along with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), pleaded with her colleagues not to object.
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Murray unsuccessfully argued that the amendment was paid for over a 10-year period. But Democrats could muster only 55 votes against Gregg's budgetary point of order, five short of the supermajority needed to overcome it. Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Jim Webb (Va.), Mark Warner (Va.), and Ben Nelson (Neb.) joined the Republicans in voting no.

The Kerry-Murray amendment would extend stimulus bill provisions creating a summer jobs program and subsidies for vulnerable families with children via the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The stimulus bill created the TANF Emergency Fund, which provided $5 billion to reimburse states for 80 percent of increased state spending on cash assistance, subsidized jobs and other short-term benefits for families. The amendment provides $1.3 billion to extend the program, which expires in September, until March 2011.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/09/senate-drops-funding-for_n_491493.html


And because nothing is complete without a link to Kerry speaking on TANF, here is the link to when he introduced it:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=597789750
TANF was in the original stimulus program - Kerry describes it well and speaks of the range of jobs)

(after this it was combined with Murray's summer job program.)\

when the combined bill was introduced - Here is the link of Kerry's 1 minute -http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=597812868, here is Senator Murray's one minute http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=597812866
(The Gregg budgetary point is because the combined bill was not completely offset.)