Unemployment benefits ended on Sunday for hundreds of thousands of Americans after Senate Republicans prevented a vote last week to fund extended benefits for people who have exhausted the basic twenty-six weeks of coverage. The Senate vote was blocked by a filibuster from Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning. Meanwhile, in the House, the Democratic leadership is struggling to get enough votes to pass a $15 billion jobs bill. Many progressive Democrats have criticized the legislation for focusing too much on tax breaks that will do little to create jobs. Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, the co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus, said, “That’s not a jobs bill. For us to call it that and then think we’ve accomplished something is a mistake.”