"Senate GOP again kills jobless aid extension"

"Senate GOP again kills jobless aid extension" (AP):

For the third time in three weeks, Republicans in the Senate on Wednesday successfully filibustered a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to millions of people.

But since Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine voted with Democrats to advance the $33 billion measure, its passage seems assured next month once a replacement is named for Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, who died on Monday. Democrats would then have a filibuster-proof majority for the bill. MORE...

Howie P.S.: Ben Nelson was the sole Democrat who joined with the Republican senators.