How to Be Santa Claus Congress rushes to pass jobs bills, however flawed
With 12 million or more Americans likely to be still unemployed at Christmas, a legislator who fails to vote for something or other that can be labeled a "jobs bill" is casting himself as Ebenezer Scrooge. Or so believe many Representatives and Senators who are scrambling to push supposed job-creating measures through the lameduck session of Congress that is scheduled to end this week, while simultaneously growling to themselves the equivalent of "bah, humbug!" A startling number confess to the deepest skepticism that any of the bills would...
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