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WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders sent mixed signals Friday on a jobs bill supported by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and a senior Republican senator predicted his party will block action on the Senate floor.
The two events further complicated plans to quickly pass election-year legislation addressing huge job losses.
Senate Democrats scrapped a bipartisan jobs bill Thursday in favor of one they say is leaner and more focused on putting Americans back to work, all but daring Republicans to vote against it.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said the 41 GOP senators would keep the bill from coming to the floor for an up-or- down vote.
