one of the authors joins us from phone, michael catalini. where do things stand on the unemployment bill in the senate? >> on monday the senate comes back at 2:00 and we expect a vote on an amendment by senator jack reed who was one of the original co-sponsors of the three-month unemployment insurance extension and what happened last week was we saw deals coming together to pay for unemployment extensions for one year which is something republicans said they wanted to see but late last evening what we saw was that deal fell to pieces and the reason it fell to pieces was because the republicans are upset that senator majority leader harry reid was not allowing them to have amendments on the three- month extension. >> as the week starts, they have six senators who are in favor of moving forward with debate and now at the end of the week they're asking for more debate on amendments? >> what those six senators had said after they voted to advance the bill was they did that on the condition that or the understanding that they would get a vote on

one of the authors joins us from phone, michael catalini. where do things stand on the unemployment bill in the senate? >> on monday the senate comes back at 2:00 and we expect a vote on an amendment by senator jack reed who was one of the original co-sponsors of the three-month unemployment insurance extension and what happened last week was we saw deals coming together to pay for unemployment extensions for one year which is something republicans said they wanted to see but late last evening what we saw was that deal fell to pieces and the reason it fell to pieces was because the republicans are upset that senator majority leader harry reid was not allowing them to have amendments on the three- month extension. >> as the week starts, they have six senators who are in favor of moving forward with debate and now at the end of the week they're asking for more debate on amendments? >> what those six senators had said after they voted to advance the bill was they did that on the condition that or the understanding that they would get a vote on