[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8815]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is just wrong. It is wrong that we have 
2.8 million hardworking Americans who have lost their jobs and are 
looking every day for their next job.
  They stand to lose everything that they have worked for, and this 
Congress has within its power the ability to act to save them from 
losing decades of hard work, losing their house, losing their car, 
losing the roof over their head; but this Congress fails to bring up a 
bill that has passed the Senate, that the President would sign, that 
would extend unemployment benefits to 2.8 million Americans who work 
hard every day.
  There is one reason that this Congress has failed to act, and it is 
because the Speaker and the Republican leadership will not bring this 
bill to the floor.
  This bill would not increase the deficit. It is paid for, but it 
would end the misery and the suffering of so many hardworking people 
who get up every day, wondering if today is the day that the 
foreclosure notice will come, if today is the day that the car will be 
repossessed.
  We are all Americans. We have always stood together. We have always 
helped one another when times are tough. For 2.8 million people, times 
are tough.
  Congress needs to act. I call on this House to bring up H.R. 4415. 
Let's do this now.

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