House votes to extend unemployment benefits(DOA in Senate)

[papau]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/05/congress.unemployment/index.html




House votes to extend unemployment benefits
From Ted Barrett CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) --Thirty-nine Republicans in the House of Representatives crossed party lines to join Democrats in approving a measure that would extend the unemployment benefits for about 375,000 people whose regular benefits have run out for six-months.

The vote may be little more than symbolic, lawmakers from both parties predicted, because opposition from GOP leaders is expected to prevent the measure from ever becoming law, which means unemployed workers are unlikely to receive the benefits.

The measure, which would extend the temporary federal unemployment insurance benefits, was attached to an unrelated bill dealing with community block grants.

Democrats hailed the vote as evidence that there is majority support in the GOP-controlled House for the extension -- an issue Democrats have pushed for months.

But House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, dismissed the vote as a "clever political stunt" designed to give the Democrats fodder for the campaign season.<snip>

[GainesT1958]

1. No, that was a bill to help people who are hurting...

The "clever political stunt" would be passing a constitutional amendment denying gay couples basic civil rights. Delay--WHAT a BASTARD!:mad:

B-)

[Frodo]

2. WOW! I didn't expect that.

I suppose it's just never going to come up in the Senate right?

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. If this doesn't signal that the repugs.......

are worried then I don't know what does. Most couldn't give a shit about extending unemployment benefits so it's now cover their ass mode and protecting their phony baloney jobs.
I think more and more are going to try to come across as good guys and begin to distance themselves from bush.

[ET Awful]

4. They couldn't possibly let that pass. . . .

If they did, the unemployment numbers would suddenly show 7% or higher, there's no way they can allow that.

5. It has to be DOA in Senate

because if it passes, the unemployment rate will "jump" again if ex-workers are put on the rolls again.

That is what the "fall" was all about--people were taken off the rolls so don't count anymore in the pct figure.

Ditto the above message!