U.S. Congress - H.R.589 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011
H.R.589 - Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011
To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. view all titles (4)
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- Official: To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Popular: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act as introduced.
- Popular: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011 as introduced.
- Short: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011 as introduced.
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Sorry Was, posted before I looked…
No problem my friend. We all have done it too.
Alexandra Jarrin, Who Organized ‘Letters to Bernie,’ is Nearly Homeless and Needs Help
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-thornton/alexandra-jarrin-who-orga_b_822465.html
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Don’t waste time with fakk2, he is behaving like a troll.
We question his real motivation behind being here and his professed desire to help… and thus far he certainly hasn’t shown the ability to contribute anything meaningful to solving this problem.
Ignore him and he’ll go away.
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The way to help is to pass this legislation as introduced! This will provide an unemployment extension to millions that lost their job by no fault of their own, the rest is pie in the sky, what if, conjecture at best.
We are on this board to support the passage of HR 589 and to discuss strategies to assist in getting this bill out of committee and on to the floor for a vote. Most on this board have fought hard just to get this bill to the stage that it is today. Your straw poll may be be of interest to you but based on the current vote you are greatly outnumbered here at 152 to 14 as of this moment.
We want good jobs created and we want a modest financial bridge until those jobs are available. Nothing more, nothing less. How about we just call it a bail-out like we did with Wall Street?
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It looks like someone has minimum wage stuck in their head. And they keep recommending things that are illegal. Maybe they should just repeal the Davis-Bacon act. It’s only been around since 1931…
Actually, I like the Davis-Bacon act. I don’t think we should overspend on it (i.e. have too many construction projects that put us into debt to China), but I can see it’s usefulness.
Out Of 400 Amendments, Just One For The Jobless
Of the 403 amendments submitted to a stopgap budget measure to fund the government through the rest of the current fiscal year, only one mentions the word “unemployment.”
Legislation by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (R-Va.) would provide an additional 14 weeks of benefits to Americans who have been out of work for six months or longer. Lee and Scott asked Republican leaders to consider the measure as an amendment to their “continuing resolution,” the budget measure that funds the government through Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
Many of the 400 amendments will be pulled, but if the Lee-Scott item is deemed germane by the Rules Committee, it will see a vote on the House floor.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/budget-long-term-unemployed_n_823599.html
I just got this in an email from a usually reliable source, does anyone know anything about this ????
“As I write this, the Senate is poised to pass a bill extending unemployment benefits – sort of. Yesterday’s headlines trumpeted the success of Senate Democrats but jumped the gun slightly. What happened on Tuesday was a cloture motion, breaking the Republican led filibuster that had bottled the bill up, and allowing for an up or down vote on the bill itself, which will easily pass.
But there is still a delay, one that will likely push the open vote back at least one day. While this may seem insignificant, the extension applies to people whose unemployment insurance has already expired, some of whom are living off of short term high interest loans. It’s a terrifying position to be in and every day really does matter."
There is no unemployment bill in the Senate.
that is from July of 2010! very old inforation
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fakk2 you are trolling again. No one here wants to read your inflammatory comments. Time for you to go for good.
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Political boogers working for corporations is even worse ;)
I was just reading “Political Experience”
http://www.advantageconsultants.org/02_dougsbio.html
Ya just gotta love the way they call themselves “consultants” instead of paid bloggers, what’s in a couple of words anyway except the truth.