[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12912-12913]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION INSURANCE BENEFITS

  (Ms. KILROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

[[Page 12913]]


  Ms. KILROY. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to call on my colleagues, and 
particularly my colleagues in the Senate and those Republicans, to give 
much needed relief to 15 million out-of-work Americans and extend 
unemployment compensation insurance benefits. It is unprecedented not 
to do so at a time of high unemployment, over 10 percent in my 
district.
  And I take strong issue with comments that the unemployed don't want 
to work, that they aren't looking for jobs. They do. They want to pay 
their bills. They want to support their families, make those utility 
payments, put food on their table, send their children to college.
  But right now I have talked to anguished, hardworking men and women 
who have lost jobs when their factories closed and have been looking 
continuously for work. It's not yet there. They are looking for these 
jobs, but they need this help now. It is time that we extend 
unemployment compensation and give these hardworking citizens the help 
that they need.

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