[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 23801]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the news from Nevada about those unemployed 
is that it is going up every day. Nevada now has an extremely high 
unemployment rate, over 7 percent. But Nevada is not the most 
unemployed State. Michigan is over 9 percent. We Democrats are deeply 
concerned with the continued rise in unemployment and the fact that 
many unemployed workers have exhausted or soon will exhaust their 
benefits. We hope our Republican colleagues will allow the Senate to 
move legislation forward and extend unemployment compensation benefits 
and do it now before we recess.

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