Congress Fails to Act as Thousands Collect Their Last Unemployment Checks

[brentspeak]

(Note: The links embedded within the article at the main link are all screwed up and direct to the wrong articles).

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/congress-fails-act-thousands-collect-unemployment-checks/story?id=8795069

By BETSY STARK and SADIE BASS
Oct. 9, 2009

The House of Representatives voted on an extension of unemployment benefits 17 days ago, but today the Senate failed to pass a bill of its own.

In those two weeks the Senate has failed to act, an estimated 200,000 Americans have lost a lifeline.

Many who contacted ABCNews.com said lawmakers are missing the emergency.

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In the time since the House voted to extend benefits, the Senate has kept busy -- with other bills. Senators marked up a major health care reform bill, passed $636 billion in defense spending, passed $32 billion to fund the Department of Interior, and $4.6 billion to fund Congress itself -- including a pay raise for House and Senate staffers.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Are the unemployed from companies that are STILL making huge profits?

I need to know

[DJ13]

2. They'll have to act on this very soon

Otherwise the fiction that the economy is improving will come crashing down around the government.

That would be bad for their masters on Wall Street.

[old mark]

3. What a bunch of trash we have elected, no matter what party.

They probably left for the long weekend Thursday, and are home getting drunk with someone elses wife.

I wonder when the American people will get angry at them.....


mark

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Now, if this were in France... they would be in the streets, as we should.

Why do we not have the balls to do this? We fear our government; in most other countries, the government fears the people.