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Deal reached in Senate on unemployment assistance - Roll Call

"Be prepared for an all-nighter," Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., told reporters. "We're hammering out a couple of things," she added, likening the process to "sausage-making."

Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, expressed support for the package even if unemployment benefits were scaled back. Brown cited the entirety of the package, including things like emergency rental assistance, expanded tax credits for low-income households and money for schools as reasons to support it.

"I think people recognize this is a big, big deal," Brown said. "This bill is extraordinary what we're able to do, and if some things change at the margins, they change at the margins."

Republicans earlier appeared to delight in the Democrats’ struggle to hold their caucus together. At a news conference and in interviews, GOP senators pointed to the challenge of trying to pass a mammoth aid package on a party-line vote in a 50-50 Senate.

“That’s why reconciliation is a bad idea,” Portman said, referring to the procedure that allows Democrats to skirt a GOP filibuster with a simple majority vote. “They should have worked with us.”

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