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"House Dems Will Be Bugging John Boehner A Lot About Unemployment"
House Dems Will Be Bugging John Boehner A Lot About Unemploymentby Arthur Delaney at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/08/unemployment-extension_n_5112997.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats are going to be spending a lot of time hounding House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) about unemployment insurance.
The Senate approved legislation on Monday that would restore benefits to the 2 million long-term jobless Americans who have not received checks since Congress let federal unemployment insurance lapse in December. Boehner doesn't like the Senate bill and House Democrats have no way to force a vote in the lower chamber, but they sure can make noise about it.
To that end, a dozen Democrats staged a press conference outside the Capitol on Tuesday, calling on Boehner to bring the Senate bill to the House floor for a vote.
"Today over 2 million unemployed Americans are hearing from the Republicans in United States Congress, 'You are on your own,'" Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said at the press conference. "It is past time to act but it is never too late to do the right thing."
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