[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8816]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

  (Mr. HORSFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HORSFORD. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor today to remind my 
Republican colleagues that there are over 2.8 million Americans who 
have been cut off from unemployment insurance benefits since December 
28, 2013.
  We are back here in session for 2 weeks, the Senate has worked and 
passed a measure to renew unemployment insurance, yet Speaker Boehner 
refuses to bring up a bill.
  Why, Mr. Speaker?
  One of those 2.8 million Americans is Mitch from Nevada. He is 55 and 
lost his job of 8 years in March of 2013. Since his unemployment 
insurance ended, he has sold many of his belongings just to stay in his 
house and to feed his family.
  Mitch is a Republican, but more importantly, he is an American, and 
he is pleading for congressional leaders to not turn their backs on 
him.
  For all struggling Nevadans, I want you to know that we have not 
forgotten about you.
  Mr. Speaker, schedule a vote to extend unemployment insurance 
benefits to the 2.8 million Americans, the 37,000 Nevadans.
  My time may have expired, but it is more important that the 
unemployment insurance benefits that has expired be extended.

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