[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11401]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    EXTENDING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, today, millions of Americans across the 
country need emergency unemployment insurance to support their 
families--to provide for their very basic needs--as those hardworking 
Americans have lost their previous jobs and are simply in search of 
their next opportunities, through no fault of their own.
  Somehow, this issue has been turned into a partisan issue. It is not 
a partisan issue back home. There is no such thing as a Democratic or a 
Republican unemployed person. They are unemployed, and they are looking 
for all the help they can get.
  The week before last, I and three of my Democratic colleagues and Mr. 
LoBiondo--a Republican--and three of his colleagues introduced a 
bipartisan unemployment insurance extension. It is a mirror image of 
the language that has been introduced by Mr. Reed and Mr. Heller in the 
Senate. This is a bipartisan bill. We can take this up right now.
  Is it the bill that I would have written by myself? No. In fact, I 
did submit an extension of unemployment that the House has not taken 
up, but we have compromised. We ought to do the work of the American 
people.
  We have a bipartisan bill to extend unemployment insurance. The House 
should take it up immediately. Millions of Americans need it, and it is 
upon us to take this action.

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