A House-approved bill to extend unemployment benefits isn't seeing much progress within the Senate, according to the Associated Press. The bill would have given another 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to people from states where the jobless rate is at least 8.5 percent.

But opposing lawmakers say states that have lower unemployment would be left out.

"The original hope among Democratic leaders was to get quick approval of a proposal giving four extra weeks of benefits to the jobless in all 50 states and 17 weeks to workers in those 27 states where the unemployment rate is 8.5 percent or above," writes Jim Abrams for the Associated Press. "But that drew opposition from lawmakers from the 23 states who wouldn't qualify for the greater benefit."