[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise because today in the House we 
will bring up a vote on approximately $310 billion of permanent tax 
credit extenders, including the very popular research and 
experimentation credit, a bipartisan-supported tax extender, but this 
is something that is being brought up without a pay-for at a time when 
the United States of America now has 2.6 million citizens who have lost 
their long-term unemployment benefits.
  In my State of Pennsylvania alone, we have 125,000 families who lost 
that lifeline because, Mr. Speaker, you refuse to bring this up for a 
vote because it doesn't have a pay-for.
  Fair is fair, Mr. Speaker. We support many of these extenders, but we 
can't leave these American families out in the cold like this.

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