[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13023]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Madam Speaker, today this body will have an 
opportunity to show the American people that we get it. We will be 
asked to vote on an extension of unemployment insurance for 13 weeks 
for every State in the country.
  Normally, this would be a no-brainer, given the fact that a couple 
weeks ago we had the largest percentage increase in the number of 
unemployed. There are almost 4 million Americans without a job who 
can't find one, and we have had millions of Americans lose their homes 
through mortgage foreclosures. All of our constituents are paying over 
$4 a gallon for gas, almost three times what they were paying before 
the Bush administration came to office.
  But it is not a no-brainer, because many of our Republican colleagues 
have consistently opposed extending unemployment insurance. A number of 
times, President Bush said he would veto the bill if we tried to extend 
unemployment insurance.
  Madam Speaker, this is a failed economy. Let's not fail the American 
people today. Let's extend unemployment insurance.

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