[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6550]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, today there are 2 million Americans that 
stand to lose everything they have worked for, through no fault of 
their own--2 million Americans that are working Americans that get up 
every day and work hard to find their next job. They are America's 
unemployed who have lost their extended unemployment benefits. They 
stand to lose everything.
  Rather than taking up H.R. 4415, which I introduced right after the 
Senate acted on a bipartisan basis to deal with this problem of the 
unemployed in our country, to make sure that that unemployment 
compensation is there for them when they need it, rather than take that 
up, the House Budget Committee has sent to this floor for its 
consideration a budget that would slash essential programs to provide a 
safety net for those hardworking Americans who stand to lose everything 
in order to fund tax cuts--big tax cuts--for America's wealthiest 
people. That is policy that we just can't tolerate. Rather than taking 
up the needs of those 2 million, we have taken on the challenge of 
trying to provide more tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
  If this had happened because of a storm, we would act overnight. We 
need to take up H.R. 4415 right away.

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