[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 8, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H46]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    PASS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE NOW

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, when Lyndon Baines Johnson came before this 
House and this Nation to say that the United States, the richest 
country in the history of the world, should not have people living in 
squalor and in poverty, shouldn't have seniors eating dog food, 
shouldn't have poor kids living with no chance of a better life, he did 
what this Nation really is all about. He really lived up to the true 
meaning of ``liberty and justice for all,'' and he made those words 
real when, for so many years, they had not been real.
  And yet those programs which lifted millions of Americans out of 
poverty, that war on poverty which lifted so many out and gave so many 
people a chance, after about 10 years, there became a war on the war on 
poverty.
  Now the latest battle in the war on the war on poverty, what took 
place on December 28, 2013, this House refused to extend unemployment 
insurance for 1.3 million Americans. This is no way to uphold the great 
legacy of the war on poverty. Let's pass unemployment insurance. Let's 
do it now.

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