[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

  (Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I have learned a 
lot in my first year in Congress, but I could serve here a lifetime and 
never understand how some Members could be so callous and so 
shortsighted that they are ready to cut off a lifeline for millions of 
Americans, including 137,000 New Yorkers.
  These New Yorkers are hardworking people, like Stephen from Sugar 
Loaf, who wrote to me because he needs unemployment insurance to stay 
in his house; like Brenda in Fishkill, where she and her husband are 
both enrolled in retraining courses right now trying to get work and 
need this insurance just to make ends meet; like Johnine in Warwick, 
who lost her job to outsourcing, but still has to take care of her 
daughter; like Carol in Dutchess County, who may not be able to take 
care of her disabled husband without this assistance; like Ingrid from 
Highland Falls, who fought for her country in war and now has to worry 
about putting food on the table for her children.
  We must renew unemployment insurance for people like these now 
because every week that goes by, there are 5,000 more people like 
Stephen and Brenda and Johnine and Carol and Ingrid. These aren't 
statistics. They are hardworking Americans, and they need this Congress 
to act, and act now.

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