[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 590-591]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                FLEXIBILITY TO PROMOTE REEMPLOYMENT ACT

  (Mr. RENACCI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. RENACCI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge support for the 
Flexibility to Promote Reemployment Act. Under the Middle Class Tax 
Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, States were granted unprecedented 
flexibility in the use of unemployment insurance funds to help 
unemployed individuals collect paychecks instead of benefit checks.
  Unfortunately for States, the DOL issued restrictive, burdensome, and

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costly application requirements. To date, one State has completed the 
application process, only to have the application swiftly denied. The 
Flexibility to Promote Reemployment Act increases flexibility in the 
use of State UI funds by enabling the DOL to revisit current 
application guidance and allow States to operate demonstration projects 
that test alternative means of helping the unemployed return to work.
  At a time when our unemployment rate remains unacceptably high, we 
need to be doing everything we can to advance solutions that will 
promote job creation. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle 
to support this commonsense legislation.

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