A cloture vote was held in the U.S. Senate this past Tuesday, June 21, 2011, for The Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011 (S 782), which helps to maintain over 4000 jobs in Nevada, and has had bipartisan support in the past, was voted down this time, 49-51 and Senator Heller was one of the no votes.
Here in Nevada, "the program has already created or sustained 4,326 jobs. Reauthorizing the legislation would continue to create new jobs at a time when Nevada is suffering from the highest unemployment rate in the Nation. Tuesday’s vote comes on top of Heller’s vote earlier this year to gut the Department of Energy loan guarantee program that would create thousands of jobs in Nevada, including a recent announcement of a loan for a clean energy project in Tonopah that would create 600 jobs alone."
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