And she wrote to me and said, ive wanted nothing more than to find a new fulltime job and i dedicated every day to that mission. Im asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended Unemployment Benefits to make ends meet. I just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction, shes are not statistics. These are your neighbors, friends, family members. It could at some point be any of us. Thats why we set up a system of Unemployment Insurance. The notion was everybody is making a contribution because you dont know when the Business Cycle or an economic crisis might make any of us vulnerable. And this insurance helps keep food on the table while dad is sending out resumes. It helps mom pay the rent while shes learning new skills to earn that new job. That provides that extra set of security so that losing your job doesnt mean you have to lose your house. Where everybody you worked so hard to build for years. We make this promise to our fellow american
Mr. Sessions madam president . The presiding officer the senator from alabama. Mr. Sessions i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Sessions madam president , i wanted to share some remarks that senator ayotte had relevant to the amendment that she offered that would pay for the Unemployment Insurance extension and veteran pensions benefits and would just say its an issue her payfor is an issue that i have had some experience with, offering several years ago an amendment to fix it and was disappointed when the majority leader, senator reid, objected to that amendment. Senator ayottes amendment would pay for the jobless benefits of unemployed americans, restore veterans pensions by cutting off fraudulent tax payments to illegal aliens. This is a very simple concept and theres a clear abuse going on here that needs to be fixed and it should have been fixed a long time ago. The amendment contains offsets of
The senate is expected to that test vote on a bill will extend jobless benefits for the longterm unemployed for months. Three voters need 60 votes to advance the White Housebacked bill. Susan collins of maine says shell vote to advance it in opes that her fellow republicans will offer changes to offset the costs. Follow that vote on cspan 2. At 10 45, Senate Democrats will the jobless ng on benefitsish issue. For you here on cspan. President obama will comment on unemployment te on benefits. John boehner said House Republicans wont take up the unless the additional cost is offset. Well have the president s comments live at 11 40. As comments after that well. Army chief of staff genere at the National Press club talking about the future of the army. Efore taking his current position, he was commanding general for the u. S. Campaign in iraq. Comments ge of his begin at 1 00 eastern. 2 30 eastern, we bring you live judiciarys the Senate Subcommittee looks into the plight of Syrian Refugee
Unemployment funds stopped three weeks ago. She is a single mother who is caring for her daughter and received no child support. She has no family to rely upon and she is not eligible nor seeking welfare. All of the 1 2ians i have met with have had their Unemployment Insurance lapse and they are scrambling to make ends meet. No one, none of them, wants to live on Unemployment Insurance forever. In fact, they all said, by a person, that they wanted to go to work. Some of them were in training and were using unemployment as a bridge. Others go to the work forest Connections Office on a regular basis, every week, looking for jobs to apply for. And none of them are lazy, mr. Speaker. When Unemployment Insurance expires, it doesnt just mean that those struggling to find work wont be able to put food on the table or pay the rent. It means money thats pump intod our local economy will also be lost. And thats a serious drag on the economy. So if you dont want to listen to me talk about the peo
Pollution and create 33,000 jobs. Host his point about where the spent, what is eing done to ensure this money stays in the United States and doesnt fund jobs overseas . Note it is important to that the american recovery and reinvestment act which provided the resources had a buy america clause in it make sure was built inssible the u. S. I will give you an example from the wind industry. Years ago only onequarter a wind omponents for turbine were made in the u. S. Hanks to investments under the recovery act threequarters of the components in turbines are made in the u. S. Last month the Siemens Company which is a Fortune Company to have it was going the largest order ever to build 2 turbines, almost billion, to build at their plant mason, iowa. I believe that will create about 1,000 jobs. Sorry, fort madison, iowa. Hat is an example of where you sort of jump started the industry in 2009 when the credit markets were frozen after the horrible financial crash of 2008 capital ovided some