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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Apr 9, 2014, 11:06 AM Apr 2014

Upstate NY GOP house member urges house to extend jobless claims.

Brian Tumulty

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Gibson of Kinderhook is among a small group of House Republicans who want their chamber to approve legislation the Senate passed Monday to temporarily renew long-term unemployment benefits.

Gibson recalled that his father once was laid off as a mechanic for Otis elevator company.

“I know firsthand what this is like,” Gibson said Tuesday. “He spent a lot of time out of work in the late 1970s.”

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20140409/NEWS/304090013/Gibson-urges-House-GOP-extend-jobless-benefits

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