Steny Hoyer criticizes the Senate

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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) blasted Kentucky GOP Sen. Jim Bunning’s filibuster of federal unemployment benefits this morning, but he also used Bunning’s one-man filibuster as an example of what’s wrong with the Senate.


“The Senate has got to come to a place where the Senate has the ability to function,” Hoyer said.


“We have one United States senator who has decided he’s going to block. A hundred thousand workers lost their unemployment benefits immediately,” Hoyer said. “Four hundred thousand workers will lose benefits within one to two weeks. That increases to 1.5 million for the month of March, if we can’t get this done, and 3 million within two months. So that one senator is impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands and prospectively millions.”



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