Unemployment extensions status: As of July 19th

#unemployment #hr4213 #economy #s3520 #hr5618 #paygo

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Republicans pushed back Monday against President Obama’s harsh criticism of the GOP over a stalled extension of unemployment benefits.

As the president slammed Senate Republicans in the Rose Garden for having held up legislation extending the benefits, the GOP sought to turn up the heat on Obama about the deficit.

“The president knows that Republicans support extending unemployment insurance and doing it in a fiscally responsible way by cutting spending elsewhere in the $3 trillion federal budget,” said House GOP leader John Boehner (Ohio). “At a time of record debt and deficits made worse by Washington Democrats’ massive spending spree, that’s the right thing to do and the right way to do it.”
Source: The Hill

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At 2:30pm tomorrow, the senate will be voting on the unemployment extensions. Reid says he has the 60 votes needed. But he is not voting on the house version of HR5618 the standalone unemployment extension bill.

If Reid chooses to vote on the house version of HR5618 and it passes, it would be signed into law by this Wednesday.

But Reid is choosing to vote on a larger HR4213 that Congress has not been able to pass since last December. Not even the House and Senate democrats can agree on what should be in HR4213. It has been amended from the last version approved by the House.

Since both the House and Senate have to vote on the exactly same worded bill, the House would have to approve the Senate version before Congress goes on it’s third summer vacation, the august recess. They may be leaving early July 30th and returning in September.

If your unemployment checks do not continue until September, blame Reid for choosing HR4213 rather than HR5618.

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For the common liberal responses,
how does GOP/Bush own spending spree prevent unused stimulus funds from being used to pay for the extensions?

For those that hate money being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, how does that prevent unused stimulus funds from paying for your UI checks?

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