From left, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., arrive for a procedural vote in the Senate on a bill that would extend unemployment benefits, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Benefits expired for many long-term unemployed Americans on Dec. 28 after lawmakers did not extend the program as part of a bipartisan budget agreement. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., is leading the effort to reauthorize the benefits for three months nationwide, but Republicans are balking however have balked at the proposed extension without offsets for the $6.5 billion that it will cost. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)By way of Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A White House-backed bill to renew jobless advantages for 1.three million American citizens narrowly cleared a U.S. Senate Republican procedural roadblock on Tuesday. On a largely birthday party-line vote of 60-37 – 60 had been wanted to prevail – the Democratic-led Senate agreed to start consideration of the measure, which would extend just lately ended advantages for three months at a value of $6 billion. The Senate may just vote later this week on whether or not to approve the invoice and send it to the Republican-led House of Representatives, the place it is going to die until there is a deal to cover the cost without rising the federal debt. (For a photograph on U.S. emergency unemployment benefits: http://link.reuters.com/nej45v) At the White House, President Barack Obama praised the Senate for moving forward and urged swift passage so he may signal the emergency law into regulation.