LEAD: Welcome back to THE LEAD live in Trenton, New Jersey. We have breaking news now from Capitol Hill. A proposal to reinstate long-term unemployment benefits has failed to clear two procedural votes in the Senate. That leaves more than one million unemployed Americans in a sort of limbo. So, what now? CNN chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash is live from Capitol Hill. Dana, does this mean that hopes are dashed for reinstating these benefits, or are there other venues that they can proceed down?</s>DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Not completely dashed, but certainly not looking good, promising, for this to be done before Congress goes on another recess in one week. What's going on here is that Democrats and Republicans can't decide on several things. One, the length of the extension. Democrats said maybe three months but only if it's not paid for. If longer, they want it to be - they want it to be longer if paid for. And then the second thing is the idea of amendments, fairness. Republicans are saying that they don't -- they are being stifled. They don't have the opportunity to offer their version of how they want to do this. All of this, Jake, despite the fact that you have eight Republican senators who have been working pretty much nonstop to try to have a bipartisan agreement. Senator Reid and some of his colleagues are doing the same. And still, still, they can't bridge their differences over something that all of these senators say they do understand is important for people who don't have jobs and haven't for so, so long. It's really a classic state of affairs right now in the Senate.</s>TAPPER: As of right now, the Senate bill for extending unemployment benefits, dashed, at least for now. Dana Bash on Capitol Hill, thank you so much. Coming up next, a new honor for Edward Snowden. That's coming up.
Unemployment Benefits Proposal Dead In Senate For Now