For a little while last week, a couple of aides to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) were playing around with an idea for a Twitter hashtag that would express Republican frustration with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV.) The hashtag, #LegislativeGraveyard, would be applied to posts about Reid’s unwillingness to take up measures passed by the Republican-controlled House.
As social media efforts go, it wasn’t much. Just a couple of tweets and then the idea was apparently abandoned. But the lack of uptake in the Twitterverse doesn’t mean that the term isn’t an accurate depiction of what members of the House Republican leadership think is happening in the Senate
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Boehner is taking a lot of heat these days for his apparent refusal to bring a Senate-passed proposal to renew an extension of federal unemployment benefits to the floor of the House for a vote. For his part, Boehner says that the House acted long ago – and more than once – to aid the unemployed by passing legislation meant to help the economy start creating new jobs.
In a press conference March 26, Boehner said, “If we’re going to consider dealing with emergency unemployment, we’ve got to do something about creating better jobs in America, higher wages in America. The Senate is sitting on dozens of bills that we sent over there. I think it’s time for the Senate to work with the House to help get the economy moving again. That’s the real issue.”
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