GOP Seeks To End Emergency Unemployment Benefits

[Katashi_itto]

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House Republican leaders are angling to end emergency unemployment benefits when they expire on Dec. 28 for some 1.3 million Americans, sparking a confrontation with White House and Democrats who are pushing hard to extend them.

Reflecting the sentiments of his members, Speaker John Boehner suggested Friday that the "positive" November jobs report is a sign that the emergency benefits should lapse. (The economy added 203,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 7 percent.)

"Today's report includes positive signs that should discourage calls for more emergency government 'stimulus,'" the Ohio Republican said in a statement. "Instead, what our economy needs is more pro-growth solutions that get government out of the way."

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Thursday stressed that the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program was approved in 2008 "as emergency spending, as emergency need" when the economy was in free fall. He said the solution was to get more unemployed Americans back to work.
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[handmade34]

1. "Jobs Bill"

Republicans are irrational

[giftedgirl77]

2. They use jobs bill as a buzzword just like terrorism.

They say they are going to produce a jobs bill, yet in 4+ years not one has been produced. Stupid Boner.