[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13306]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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               RESTORE THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, I rise today to once again beg my 
Republican colleagues in the other body to restore the unemployment 
insurance program.
  Yesterday, I read a story in the Washington Post that noted that 
Montgomery County, Maryland, one of the five richest counties in the 
United States, is now serving 15,000 free meals a day to children who 
would otherwise go hungry. This is an increase of nearly 15 percent 
from previous summers, and I'm sure that most of these children come 
from families who have lost their unemployment and have no other way to 
buy food for their families.
  Nationwide, an estimated 16 million children will go hungry this 
summer. I'm not sure what it will take for the Republicans to wake up 
and recognize that they're literally starving American families. We 
cannot wait one second longer.
  George Bush said he was a compassionate conservative. They've simply 
thrown away, Madam Speaker, the word ``compassionate.'' They are just 
conservative. They will not take care of working people in this 
country.

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