Ben Nelson announced his retirement in a YouTube video on Tuesday afternoon, not "a press conference back home in Nebraska," as Politico had reported earlier in the day.
President Obama's jobs proposals are having no easier passing as individual policies as they did as one big package, as the Senate stayed up late on Thursday evening to reject a plan to give states and cities $35 billion to rehire up to 400,000 public workers.
Politicians like Jon Bruning now raise money off their most controversial statements
No Democrats voted for the legislation, despite pressure on moderates to curb spending
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