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The Senate's senior Democrat is asking the top Republican to allow votes next week on new emergency loans for the Detroit Three automakers and more jobless aid to the unemployed.

Harry Reid wrote to GOP Leader Mitch McConnell today asking him to clear Republican roadblocks to passing the package in a post-election session that begins Monday. Reid says aid for the auto industry and jobless is "especially urgent."

McConnell has not taken a public position on such a plan. He is calling in...