Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, is joined by newly-sworn Sen. Carte Goodwin, D-W.Va., right, after the Senate cleared a hurdle to restore unemployment benefits to millions of Americans who have been out of work for more than six months, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. The 60-40 vote came moments after Goodwin, a successor to West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, took his oath of office. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Senate Democrats broke through a stubborn Republican filibuster Tuesday and pressed to restart jobless benefits for 2 1/2 million Americans still unable to find work in the frail national economic recovery. The Democrats were victorious by the single vote of a new senator sworn in only moments earlier.




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