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Relief is on the way for millions of jobless Americans: The Senate swore in West Virginia’s new senator, Carte Goodwin, on Tuesday, and he went on to cast the 60th vote to break the Republican Party’s filibuster of an extension of unemployment benefits. Maine Republicans Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe joined the Democrats in breaking the filibuster. It is expected that the House will take up the bill on Wednesday, and President Obama will sign it into law by week’s end.