[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 8, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H33]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               EXTEND EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

  (Ms. BROWNLEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on 
Speaker Boehner to allow the House to vote to extend emergency 
unemployment compensation, a program that is critical to thousands of 
my constituents in Ventura County struggling to find work.
  We also need to extend unemployment insurance for the more than 
20,000 veterans who were cut off while they make their transition to 
the civilian work force. We need to extend unemployment insurance for 
the nearly 2 million children whose families need it for food, 
clothing, and shelter.
  Mr. Speaker, it is also an economic imperative. Extending 
unemployment insurance to nearly 214,000 unemployed Californians who 
will use it to buy groceries, put gas in their cars, or keep the lights 
on, would save over 46,000 jobs in my State.
  Mr. Speaker, it is both a moral and economic imperative that we 
extend unemployment insurance, and that we do so without delay.

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