By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press | AP – October 13, 2011
Desermithe Cyrius demonstrates for jobs outside of the offices of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, in Doral, Fla. Rubio voted against a jobs bill Tuesday night, which failed to get enough votes to move forward in the Senate. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in the Senate promise additional votes on pieces of the president's $447 billion jobs bill, but how those pieces might be arranged and when the votes might be taken is up in the air.
Instead of immediate votes on more jobs legislation, the Senate is turning to long-stalled spending legislation and then is going on recess （休息） at the end of next week.
The jobs package died Tuesday at the hands of Senate Republicans, but Obama and his Senate Democratic supporters promise to force votes on items such as infrastructure spending, jobless assistance, aid to local governments, and tax cuts for individuals and businesses that were major parts of the massive bill.
Obama's top ally in the Senate says it's unclear which items will get votes.
"I'm not positive at this time what piece of the president's bill we're going to do," Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said.
Instead Reid said the chamber will first debate a bundle of appropriations bills setting next year's budgets for the departments of Commerce, Agriculture, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development. That's likely to consume next week. And with the chamber taking a vacation at the end of the month, it appears that it'll be November at the earliest before any pieces of Obama's jobs package get a re-vote.
Obama, in his first, combative appearance since Republicans and a two Democrats filibustered his jobs plan to death, promised to keep the pressure on Congress.