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 Alert-June4th June 4, 2008 Action Alert – Tell the House Leadership Not to Buckle In to President Bush on Jobless Benefits. We all have to act fast to help the nation’s jobless families. As reported in the Washington Post today, the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives is considering dropping the extension of jobless benefits from the war spending package that they will vote on late this week or early next week. If you remember, the Senate passed the unemployment benefits extension along with a number of other domestic spending items with the war spending bill. While the House of Representatives passed the extension as well, now they have to decide whether to adopt the whole Senate package before them – a package which includes more domestic spending items than the previous House measure -- or cut it down in the belief that the President would be more likely to sign a more limited war spending bill. With all the strong bi-partisan support for the extension of unemployment benefits in the House and the Senate, we believe the House leadership should send the message to the President that the extension of unemployment benefits has to be signed into law right away with the war spending bill. If not, and another bill is introduced later just to extend jobless benefits, it could take a very long time before it makes its way again through the House and the Senate (it would require at least 60 votes in the Senate, which is never easy), plus the President could always veto that bill as well. Act Now! Please call both Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office right away and leave a message saying, “The extension of unemployment benefits must be included in the war spending bill to be voted by the House of Representatives.” Please also call you Congressperson right away and say, “Please tell Speaker Nancy Pelosi you strongly support providing extended unemployment insurance benefits as part of the war spending bill to be voted on by the House of Representatives.” The toll-free number is 1-877-331-1223. Thank you for keeping up the fight for the unemployed! National Employment Law Project Washington Post story: |
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