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Senate aims help at jobless vets, contractors

The Senate seemed ready Monday to temporarily ease its partisan standoff over President Barack Obama's jobs plan and come together on providing an economic boost to two potent interest groups: veterans and businesses.

By Alan Fram | Updated on November 07, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate seemed ready Monday to temporarily ease its partisan standoff over President Barack Obama’s jobs plan and come together on providing an economic boost to two potent interest groups: veterans and businesses.

Senators were expected to vote overwhelmingly Monday to start debating a bill repealing a requirement that federal, state and many local governments withhold 3 percent of their payments to contractors. That bill has been lobbied by a wide swath of industry groups large and small and has no significant opposition.

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