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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pressing to extend unemployment benefits and health-insurance subsidies for the jobless through December as he and Republicans try to clear leftover Senate business.
Reid also hopes to keep helping cash-strapped states with their Medicaid budgets, he said Tuesday on the Senate floor. Taken together, these proposals would cost in the range of $100 billion.
The Nevada Democrat is in talks with GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky over what to include in catchall legislation to help the long-term unemployed, extend several expired tax breaks and prevent doctors from suffering a big cut in their Medicare reimbursements.
