UNEMPLOYMENT

Amendments

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), consideration (H. Res. 656), H3616 [2JN]

Articles and editorials

Bush Choice for Manufacturing Post in Question, S2595 [11MR]

Bush Supports Shift of Jobs Overseas, S2100 [3MR]

China's Workers—And Ours, E480 [30MR]

Disaster Lurks in April Jobs Numbers, H2899 [12MY]

Exhausting Federal Compassion, S351 [2FE]

Food-Stamp Calls Routed to India—Firm That Runs Part of the Virginia Program Outsourced Call Center, H1574 [25MR]

``High Tech'' Narrated by Walter Cronkite, H616 [25FE]

High-Tech Jobs Are Going Abroad! But That's Okay, S2184 [4MR]

Jobless; Benefits Are Running Out, S1556 [25FE]

Jobless Count Skips Millions, S1556 [25FE]

Lesson in India—Not Every Job Translates Overseas, S2084 [3MR]

One Big Job Lies Ahead for Last Two Years, H120 [27JA]

Permanent Job Proves an Elusive Dream, S11239-S11241 [11OC]

Poll—Enthusiasm for Free Trade Fades; Dip Sharpest for $100K Set; Loss of Jobs Cited, H737 [2MR]

Private Contractors May Handle Food Stamps, H1575 [25MR]

Protectionism Happens To Be Congress's Job, S3453 [31MR]

Snow Boasts Spring Has Sprung for U.S. Economy, H853 [4MR]

Trade and Labor Rights, E480 [30MR]

What Goes Around . . ., S2183 [4MR]

Whatever It Takes—City Is Down but Not Out Over Electrolux, H119 [27JA]

When Outsourcing Takes Your Job, Then It Will Matter, S8843 [7SE]

Bills and resolutions

Benefits: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (see S. 2006), S52 [20JA] (see S. 2250), S3294 [29MR] (see H.R. 4684), H4926 (see H.R. 4684), H5070 [24JN]

Business and industry: prohibit business enterprises that lay-off a greater percentage of their U.S. workers than workers in other countries from receiving any Federal assistance (see H.R. 3888), H830 [3MR]

Commission on American Jobs: establish (see H.R. 3878), H752 [2MR]

Dept. of Justice: establish the Office of Community Justice Services (see S. 2977), S11305 [11OC]

Employment: eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs and provide assistance and improve the health care tax credit for certain displaced workers (see S. 2531), S6881 [16JN]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (see S. 2143), S1891 [27FE] (see S. 2157), S1999 [2MR] (see H.R. 3881), H830 [3MR] (see H.R. 3957), H1071 [11MR] (see H.R. 4090), H1790 [31MR]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers and to certain communities (see H.R. 5030), H6898 [8SE]

———protect employees from outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries (see S. 2090), S1286 [12FE] (see H.R. 4740), H5149 [25JN]

———protect employees from outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries for performance of Federal and State services contracts (see S. 2094), S1286 [12FE] (see S. 2148), S1933 [1MR] (see H.R. 3820), H574 [24FE]

Health care professionals: establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals (see S. 2913), S10702 [7OC]

NIST: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program funding (see S. 2588), S7435 [24JN]

Northeast Regional Development Commission: establish (see H.R. 4739), H5149 [25JN]

Small business: extend redesignation period for certain HUBZones in States with persistently high unemployment (see H.R. 4695), H4927 (see H.R. 4695), H5070 [24JN]

Taxation: extend work opportunity tax credit relative to hiring of workers in rural areas (see H.R. 4945), H6703 [22JY]

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (see H.R. 4444), H3438 (see H.R. 4444), H3538 [20MY]

———establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), consideration (see H. Res. 656), H3604 [1JN]

Excerpts

As Income Gap Widens, Uncertainty Spreads, S9402 [21SE]

Data Dearth in Offshore Outsourcing—Policymaking Requires Facts (white paper): Senator Lieberman, S12089-S12092 [20DE]

Explanations

Kerry-Edwards Economic Plan: Senators Kerry and Edwards, S9403 [21SE]

Factsheets

Evidence on Job Creation, Wages, and Health Insurance, H852 [4MR]

Letters

Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act: Francisco Sanchez, Wisconsin Association of Job Training Executives, S10707 [7OC]

———Fred Schnook, Concentrated Employment Program, Inc., and Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board, Inc., S10707 [7OC]

———Hal Daub, American Health Care Association, S10707 [7OC]

———J. Michael Zelley and Jeffrey Howe, National Association of Workforce Boards, S10706 [7OC]

———Robert T. Borremans, Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board, S10707 [7OC]

Inclusion of undocumented or illegal aliens in certain labor statistics: Senator Alexander, S4737 [3MY]

Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program funding: James Haney, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (organization), S2594 [11MR]

Temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, S4983 [6MY]

Motions

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), H3738 [3JN]

Questions and answers

Jobs forecast: N. Gregory Mankiw, Council of Economic Advisers, H852 [4MR]

Remarks in House

AFL-CIO: filing of trade complaint relative to the effects of People's Republic of China human rights abuses on U.S. employment, E480 [30MR]

Benefits: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, H5 [20JA], H348-H358, H359-H361, H371 [4FE], H878, H880 [9MR], H1617 [29MR], H1695, H1713, H1716-H1718 [30MR], H2135 [2AP], H2383 [27AP], H2410, H2451, H2466, H2467 [28AP], H2821 [12MY], H2990 [13MY], H3172 [18MY], H3738, H3739 [3JN], H3945 [14JN], E66 [28JA], E126 [6FE], E161 [10FE]

Budget: evaluation of Bush administration proposals, H900 [9MR]

Bush, President: evaluation of administration, H1715 [30MR], H5466 [9JY], H6761 [8SE], H6906 [9SE], H7194 [15SE]

Business and industry: prohibit business enterprises that lay-off a greater percentage of their U.S. workers than workers in other countries from receiving any Federal assistance (H.R. 3888), H2724 [6MY]

Dept. of Defense: importance of job creation, H3426 [20MY]

Domestic policy: national objectives priority assignments, H2924 [13MY]

Economy: evaluation of Bush administration, H2497 [4MY], H3098, H3184 [18MY], H3232, H3361, H3365, H3377 [19MY], H3498 [20MY], H5132, H5133 [25JN], H5658, H5659, H5660 [14JY], H7449 [23SE], H8173, H8174 [6OC], H8862 [8OC], H9053 [9OC], H9707, H9709 [16NO], E1771 [1OC]

———importance of job creation, H66 [21JA], H423 [10FE], H543, H545, H546 [24FE], H579, H599, H615-H621 [25FE], H683-H686 [26FE], H846-H853 [4MR], H878, H901, H924 [9MR], H930, H995 [10MR], H1039, H1042, H1045-H1051 [11MR], H1096, H1099 [16MR], H1213-H1216 [17MR], H1279 [18MR], H1462, H1463 [24MR], H1761 [31MR], H2039, H2040, H2054-H2059 [1AP], H2140, H2141 [2AP], H2410, H2466-H2471 [28AP], H2721-H2724 [6MY], H2741 [11MY], H2891-H2893 [12MY], H2922, H2990 [13MY], H3364 [19MY], H3705-H3711 [2JN], H3724 [3JN], H7046 [13SE], H7839-H7842 [29SE]

———importance of job creation for young adults, H3184 [18MY]

———national objectives priority assignments, H7, H8, H16, H17 [20JA], H119 [27JA], H230-H241 [28JA], H296 [3FE], H543-H550 [24FE], H615-H621 [25FE], H671 [26FE], H731 [2MR], H804 [3MR], H846-H853 [4MR], H877, H880, H897, H899, H905, H907-H913 [9MR], H1045-H1051 [11MR], H1100 [16MR], H1583-H1585 [25MR], H2039 [1AP], H2134, H2139-H2144 [2AP], H2168, H2169, H2182-H2188 [20AP], H2227 [21AP], H2452 [28AP], H3600 [1JN], H3609, H3610, H3711-H3717 [2JN], H3750 [3JN], H3935, H3945-H3952 [14JN], H4292, H4294 [17JN], H4573-H4577 [18JN], H4617, H4620, H4622, H4635-H4638 [21JN], H4886-H4890 [23JN], H4896 [24JN], H5140-H5146 [25JN], H5187-H5192 [6JY], H5199, H5202, H5203, H5326-H5328 [7JY], H5464, H5466 [9JY], H5540, H5545 [13JY], H6717, H6740, H6744-H6751 [7SE], H6760, H6762 [8SE], H6905 [9SE], H7035 [13SE], H7309 [21SE], H7418, H7420 [22SE], H7839-H7842 [29SE], H9748 [17NO], H10003 [19NO]

Employment: extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (H.R. 3881), H1630-H1636 [29MR]

———impact of the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries on the economy, H398, H399, H401, H415, H416, H421 [10FE], H485, H494 [11FE], H533, H535, H544-H549 [24FE], H579, H599, H615-H621 [25FE], H683-H686 [26FE], H878, H880, H901 [9MR], H929, H995 [10MR], H1039, H1042 [11MR], H1096, H1099 [16MR], H1213-H1216 [17MR], H1234 [18MR], H1456, H1462, H1463 [24MR], H1541, H1573, H1574, H1575 [25MR], H1616, H1617, H1630-H1636 [29MR], H1716-H1718, H1723 [30MR], H2037, H2054-H2059 [1AP], H2169 [20AP], H2227 [21AP], H2338 [22AP], H2395, H2402 [27AP], H2466-H2471 [28AP], H2722-H2724 [6MY], H2777 [11MY], H2898 [12MY], H3723, H3724 [3JN], H3937, H3945-H3950 [14JN], H4393-H4403 [17JN], H5615 [13JY], H6107-H6111 [20JY], H6625 [22JY], H7754 [29SE], H8720, H8724 [7OC], E158 [10FE], E485 [30MR]

———protect employees from outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries (H.R. 4740), E1275 [25JN]

Foreign trade: impact of trade agreements on employment and the economy, H543-H550 [24FE], H1002-H1008 [10MR], H2228 [21AP], H3937 [14JN], H5785-H5788 [14JY]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, H2900-H2907 [12MY], H2922 [13MY]

Hispanic Americans: impact of Bush administration economic policies, E1111 [14JN]

House of Representatives: legislative priorities, H7081 [14SE]

———30-Something Caucus efforts to involve young adults in government, H3180-H3185 [18MY], H3955-H3960 [14JN]

Level, H7 [20JA], H130 [28JA], H877, H880, H896 [9MR], H1100 [16MR], H1233 [18MR], H1617 [29MR], H2040 [1AP], H2410 [28AP], H3180, H3181, H3183, H3184 [18MY], E315 [8MR]

NAFTA: impact on employment and the economy, H731, H737 [2MR]

NIST: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program funding, H5226, H5262, H5263 [7JY], H5440-H5449 [9JY], E485 [30MR]

Northeast Regional Development Commission: establish (H.R. 4739), E1279 [25JN]

Ohio: economic impact of Bush administration policies, H6106-H6111 [20JY]

Power resources: economic impact of increasing natural gas prices, H4293 [17JN]

———economic impact of increasing oil and natural gas prices, H1723-H1728 [30MR], H1794 [1AP], H2140 [2AP]

———impact of a national energy policy on job creation, H1723, H1728 [30MR]

Richland County, IL: tribute for pursuing international businesses, H2817 [12MY]

Taxation: impact of tax cuts on employment levels, H2133 [2AP]

Workforce Investment Act: establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), H3607, H3609, H3706 [2JN], H3725-H3740 [3JN], E1062 [8JN], E1103 [14JN]

———establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), consideration (H. Res. 656), H3611-H3617 [2JN]

———establish a Personal Reemployment Accounts grant program to assist Americans in returning to work (H.R. 444), motion to recommit, H3738, H3739 [3JN]

Remarks in Senate

Benefits: provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program, S15 [20JA], S227, S230 [26JA], S351, S352 [2FE], S626 [5FE], S971-S974, S1007 [11FE], S1441 [23FE], S1539-S1543, S1554-S1556 [25FE], S1641, S1649, S1655 [26FE], S3392, S3427 [31MR], S3555, S3557, S3596 [1AP], S3765 [6AP], S4895, S4898 [5MY], S4982-S4986 [6MY], S5054-S5056 [10MY], S5179 [11MY], S11793 [20NO]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 2006), S60 [20JA], S123 [21JA], S689 [6FE]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 2006), unanimous-consent request, S100, S101 [21JA]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 2250), S3312 [29MR], S3388 [30MR], S3424-S3427 [31MR], S4285 [22AP]

———provide for a temporary enhanced unemployment benefits program (S. 2250), unanimous-consent request, S3426 [31MR]

Budget: evaluation of Bush administration proposals, S2407-S2410 [9MR]

———reduce level of tax cuts and apply savings to promote job creation, discourage outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries, and provide adjustment assistance for dislocated workers, S2592-S2606, S2640, S2687 [11MR]

Bush, President: evaluation of administration, S3442 [31MR], S3523-S3525 [1AP], S8983 [9SE], S9120 [13SE], S9404-S9406 [21SE], S10213-S10215 [1OC], S10803 [8OC]

Congress: accomplishments of the 108th Congress, S8091 [14JY], S11794 [20NO]

Dept. of HUD: provide temporary mortgage assistance to workers displaced due to international competition, S4821 [4MY]

Dept. of Justice: establish the Office of Community Justice Services (S. 2977), S11306 [11OC]

Dept. of Labor: release of report on the state of unemployment in the U.S., S10795 [8OC]

Economy: evaluation of Bush administration, S3391 [31MR], S5176-S5179 [11MY], S5563-S5566 [18MY], S10795, S10810 [8OC], S11239, S11241, S11244, S11245, S11281 [11OC]

———importance of job creation, S675, S677 [6FE], S705, S709, S710 [9FE], S957-S964 [11FE], S1439, S1440, S1441 [23FE], S1554-S1556, S1559 [25FE], S2066-S2068 [3MR], S2270, S2271 [8MR], S2378-S2384, S2424-S2429, S2462-S2464 [9MR], S2467 [10MR], S2833, S2840-S2844 [22MR], S3052-S3055, S3068 [24MR], S3205-S3207 [26MR], S3323 [30MR], S3429-S3431, S3442 [31MR], S3521, S3555 [1AP], S3601-S3603 [2AP], S3627 [5AP], S3873, S3875, S3907-S3909 [7AP], S4006, S4008 [8AP], S4117, S4118 [20AP], S5033 [7MY], S5178 [11MY], S5739 [19MY], S8271 [16JY], S9272, S9273 [15SE], S10472 [6OC], S10795 [8OC], S11239, S11241, S11244, S11245, S11250, S11272-S11274 [11OC]

———national objectives priority assignments, S16 [20JA], S80-S83 [21JA], S227 [26JA], S351 [2FE], S675, S677 [6FE], S762 [10FE], S959-S964 [11FE], S1438-S1441 [23FE], S2186 [4MR], S2286-S2290 [8MR], S2389-S2392, S2396-S2398, S2399-S2403 [9MR], S3052-S3055 [24MR], S3555 [1AP], S3619-S3622 [2AP], S3730-S3732 [5AP], S3742-S3745, S3778-S3780 [6AP], S3873, S3875 [7AP], S4116-S4118 [20AP], S4782-S4784 [4MY], S5033 [7MY], S5176-S5179 [11MY], S5739, S5743 [19MY], S6387, S6388, S6390-S6394 [3JN], S6476-S6478 [4JN], S6826-S6828 [16JN], S7530 [6JY], S7691-S7697 [7JY], S7776-S7778 [8JY], S8433 [20JY], S8613 [22JY], S8825-S8827, S8842 [7SE], S8931 [8SE], S9059-S9061 [10SE], S9271-S9273 [15SE], S9401-S9404 [21SE], S9480-S9486 [22SE], S10416 [5OC], S10472 [6OC], S10770-S10774, S10800 [8OC], S10955 [9OC], S11246-S11249, S11250, S11272-S11274 [11OC]

Employment: eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs, S10410 [5OC], S11029 [10OC]

———eliminate tax subsidies for outsourcing of jobs and provide assistance and improve the health care tax credit for certain displaced workers (S. 2531), S6894 [16JN]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers, S4679 [29AP], S4753-S4760 [3MY], S4812-S4821 [4MY]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (S. 2143), S1892 [27FE]

———extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers (S. 2157), S2003 [2MR], S3758-S3760 [6AP]

———impact of the insourcing of jobs from foreign companies on the economy, S4006, S4008 [8AP]

———impact of the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries on the economy, S762, S769, S777 [10FE], S958-S962, S968, S982-S985, S1007, S1008 [11FE], S1196, S1197 [12FE], S1439, S1441, S1443-S1446 [23FE], S1554, S1557 [25FE], S2023, S2066-S2068, S2070, S2071 [3MR], S2181-S2186 [4MR], S2281, S2283 [8MR], S2409 [9MR], S2833, S2840-S2844 [22MR], S3052-S3055 [24MR], S3266 [29MR], S3442 [31MR], S3520, S3526, S3527, S3549 [1AP], S4678 [29AP], S6076-S6078 [21MY], S7726-S7729 [7JY], S8624 [22JY], S8979 [9SE], S9658-S9661 [24SE], S10410 [5OC], S10944 [9OC], S11029, S11030 [10OC], S11454-S11456 [18NO], S11794 [20NO], S12089 [20DE]

———protect employees from outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries, S2467 [10MR]

———protect employees from outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries for performance of Federal and State services contracts, S2083-S2101, S2171-S2173 [3MR], S2188-S2210, S2216 [4MR]

———protect employees from outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries (S. 2090), S1275 [12FE]

Foreign countries: report on congressional delegation trip to Haiti, S6258-S6260 [1JN]

Foreign trade: impact of trade agreements on employment and the economy, S699-S701 [9FE], S2092 [3MR], S3549 [1AP], S11870 [7DE]

———selection process for free trade agreements, S786 [10FE]

GAO: report on impact of the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries on the economy, S2774 [12MR]

Health: national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures, S5387-S5389 [13MY]

Health care professionals: establish a demonstration project to train unemployed workers for employment as health care professionals (S. 2913), S10705 [7OC]

Immigration: inclusion of undocumented or illegal aliens in certain labor statistics, S4736 [3MY]

Income: allow access to Individual Retirement Accounts upon exhaustion of benefits, S2663 [11MR]

Level, S211 [23JA], S272-S274 [27JA], S3052-S3055 [24MR], S3205-S3207 [26MR], S3392 [31MR], S3601-S3603, S3619-S3622 [2AP], S3873 [7AP], S10955 [9OC], S11245 [11OC]

National objectives: priority assignments, S2066-S2068 [3MR], S6825 [16JN]

NIST: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program funding, S2593 [11MR], S7280, S7281 [23JN]

Political campaigns: comparison of Vice President Cheney and Senator Edwards relative to war on terror and economy, S10473, S10474-S10476 [6OC]

Power resources: economic impact of increasing oil and natural gas prices, S3600 [2AP], S3871-S3873 [7AP]

Taxation: impact of tax cuts on employment levels, S3907-S3909, S3912-S3914 [7AP]

———waive early withdrawal penalty for distributions from qualified retirement plans to certain unemployed individuals, S2586 [10MR]

Workforce Investment Act: reauthorize (S. 1627), S3627 [5AP], S8091 [14JY], S8931 [8SE]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 444, Back to Work Incentive Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 656) (H. Rept. 108-518), H3604 [1JN]

Statements

Basic Assumptions and Principles for an Alternative Budget: Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Progressive Caucus, H241 [28JA]

Summaries

Offshore Outsourcing and America's Competitive Edge—Losing Out in the High Technology R&D and Services Sectors: Senator Lieberman, S6078 [21MY]

Tables

Cumulative extension of unemployment benefits program (1974-2002), S1646 [26FE]

Testimonies

FRS Monetary Policy Report: Alan Greenspan, FRS, and Representative Maloney, Committee on Financial Services (House), H852 [4MR]

Texts of

H. Res. 656, consideration of H.R. 444, Back to Work Incentive Act, H3611 [2JN]

H.R. 444, Back to Work Incentive Act, H3725-H3729 [3JN]

S. 2157, Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity for Service Workers Act, S2004 [2MR]

S. 2531, Keeping American Jobs at Home Act, S6895-S6898 [16JN]

S. 2913, Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act, S10706 [7OC]

S. 2977, Protecting Our Communities by Making Returning Offenders Better Citizens Act, S11307-S11309 [11OC]