House fails to move standalone unemployment extension bill

This will not pass this week………The consensus for Unemployment #’s on Friday is for 9.8%……………up from 9.7% last month…………this does not include the 1.2 million that have fallen out of the system, myself included. If we were counted it would be above 10% easily……………they will let this go in the the holiday to make it seem less worse…………go figure as if people are that stupid, but then again some seem that way so I guess it is feasible to think they can slide it by everybody……….Hence will we starve, they will be yachting, swimming and fishing to name a few………….of course thanks to all Americans……….They should be taken out and beaten silly…………..BASTARDS !!!!!!!!!!

Al Franken couldn’t have possbly co-sponsored house bill H.R. 5618. He’s in the senate, much to our chagrine.

This “report” is lacking a lot, and has factual mistakes.

1) The House bill cannot be co-sponsored by Sen. Al Franken since he has nothing to do with the House. Maybe you mean Senator Stabenow’s Senate bill 3520, of which he is a co-sponsor.

2) The House bill we’re talking about here failed to pass on suspension of the rules, meaning it now has to go through committee (likely today and/or Wednesday) and then be voted on in full by the House requiring only a majority vote to pass, not the 2/3rds suspension requirement. This bill is not done yet.

3) A minor quibble with the “rejected” wording in the quoted part. The bill was not “rejected” but set aside to be worked on in committee.

Correct. Franken cosponsored the Senate version. I’ve deleted that reference. Thanks.

What the fuk is the story with these people? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH VOTE FOR THE FUKIN’ THING ALRADY (INCLUDING 99r’s) and stop jerkun us off……BS with the deficit, they send money to the fukin’ apu and sand niggers without hesitation but us people in the USA get stiffed in the ass… DO IT NOW WE NEED IT

I am made because we need it and they are doin it to us good how can we live witout the checks? they send it out to eveyone andw e the american workes get f-ed in the a and they go on there vacation and trips a BS US an lie all the time,

I wish Reid would just use the stimulus funds already……….The Reps F’d everything up and now we have to pay for it…………..Where was the deficit concerns going to TWO WARS, bailing out banks and Wallstreet……oh yeah, where are those WMD George………….You asshole…..sitting in Texas enjoying your arse while the rest of us struggle…………Yeah Mission Accomplished………PUTZ !!!!

John,
Thank you for clarifying:

“2) The House bill we’re talking about here failed to pass on suspension of the rules, meaning it now has to go through committee (likely today and/or Wednesday) and then be voted on in full by the House requiring only a majority vote to pass, not the 2/3rds suspension requirement. This bill is not done yet.”

I think many people interpreted the vote today, as the bill not passing (myself included). Your correction has given me new hope.

This argument is over the 60% of pay that the unemployed are now living with. An average of 200-300 dollars per week for the unemployed to live. This is being held up by our elected officials that make roughly $3400 per week of taxpayer funded income. This is base pay, does not include all the sweet little perks they get, like free health care nor the sweetheart deal they have for retirement. I would submit that those that serve in the senate are millionaires in their own right and don’t need their paychecks like the unemployed do.

How can a group of people making so much money even begin to comprehend what someone living on a few hundred a week is going through? How can they represent those of us that have worked for so long and so hard but now we have to watch as everyone else is helped, with free needles, free food, free cell phones, but those of us that have paid into the system for so many years are thrown under the bus. All for political gain. On both sides.
I am disgusted.

Nevada’s Harry Reid doesn’t seem too concerned with the 14.2% unemployment rate in Las Vegas.

http://tinyurl.com/34modmk

He’s blaming the “Republican House.” Heh. You can call them that after November, Harry, but not yet.

I am angry as hell that this was not on a “Stand alone” basis a long time ago. It has been used as a bargon chip for both parties for too long. We need help and need it now. This is not a game. Dick Durbin claims to be helping get this passed yet he only gets up there today and says to the Rep’s Ok will you pass the UI extensions if it is with this that and the other. HELLO quit trying to pass all your selfish crap and pass just the Unemployment that even the rep’s had said they support. This adding other crap you want done is just that…crap. Time to look after our needs. This will effect them all directly or indirectly in the long run. When we all can not even go buy milk it will add up. I say we all stop spending any money we may have left for a week to make a statement. When they see that a million plus people don’t spend a damn cent in a week it will be alarming. You’d think. IDK but I know one thing, it is time to start teaching them lessons instead of sitting here idle while they play games with our lives.

I’m not even too sure WHAT the bill is for anymore. Does it even cover the long-term unemployed (99ers)? Believe me, I wish I didn’t need it so bad, but I’ve looked for work for over two years now and due to my age I’m pretty much tapped out here. Never in my life had a problem finding a job. I’ve started over (almost back to almost minimum age) twice now and my last job was for 18 years! But being 58 at that time pretty much took me right out of the equation. Again with the discrimination against age. So, if the bill gets passed, is it just for the newly unemployed looking to get their extension, or does it apply to everyone. Trust me, I really feel for the people who have just been recently laid-off and could not even get one extension because Congress decided enough
was enough (even though nothing was done yet to make jobs). Just wondering.

IVE BEEN UNEMPLOYED SINCE AUGUST 2009 AND IM SO SICK OF PEOPLE BLAMING THE REPUBLICANS TELL THE DEMOCRATS TO STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY AND USE THE STIMULUS FUNDS FOR IT INSTEAD OF FOR THEIR PET PROJECTS!!! NO MORE MONEY FOR BANKS!! AND WMDS? R U KIDDING ME? OBAMA HASNT AND WILL NOT STOP THE WARS HE PROMISED TO END. T H I N K ! FOR YOUSELF AND REELECT NOONE

I say this with a heavy heart:

Take the last of your unemployment money. Go and buy a firearm.

Trust me, you are going to need it when the crime rate hits an all time high in every city, in every state across our country.

We’re living in the days we all thought we would never see.

This isn’t fear speaking… this is reality.

my husband lost his job in November 09 and has just exhausted his benefits. how is this fair that some people have collected for two years and he collected for 7 months and is done? something is wrong with this system.

I am so tired of these idiots in both parties who have forgotten who they work for. Maybe when I vote Libertarian in November they will get the message and keep doing it for the rest of my life. Where’s Obama? Just wondering???

I don’t understand how they can do this to Americans. I received a letter stating my new benefit amount; but now they’re telling me I can’t claim it. How can they put a halt to Tier 1 benefits after you’ve already filed? They’re not even following a legal process. If you got an extension letter, then you should be entitled to getting it! I’ve only been unemployed for six months. What do they want me to do; go live under a bridge? My unemployment pays rent and food for my family. If I don’t get this extension, we will be unable to pay our bills and quite possibly homeless. Is this what they want our country to become?

If this vote doesn’t pass by the end of the week, they should start fearing the worse recession in history. I don’t think this is Constitutional in an way. What happened to the peoples vote? All I know, is that the House is not voting for me or any of the other millions of Americans who are unemployed. Judging by what I’ve seen this week, it might be time to move out of the country.

Are they kidding me? Not even a Tier 1 extension has been passed? Are they insane or crazy? I agree with Liam; If this doesn’t pass, the worst recession is yet to come. It’s going to get really bad. They need to put their differences aside and work to get this passed as quickly as possible.

Quit playing games bolsheviks and pay for the bill.Then just go to shula on Saturday and pray that god will have mercy on you for you shenanigans.

Get a job, Get a job, Get a job – you morons voted for Democratic congress and Obama – you got what you deserved.

So are all these unemployed people with families going to apply for welfare which the government will pay for ? My husband is 57 yrs old worked all his life lost his job when his company closed I’m 62 and hoping to retire but since I’m they only one with an income I guess I will continue to work so we don’t lose everything we have worked for . Like I said hopefully you can all get welfare and food stamps for your children let them pay one way or the other . I hope all these rich senators really enjoy their holiday while the unemployed suffer and wait . I don’t know how they sleep at night.

It’s really crazy that these congress men and women, can go on there vacation on 4th July with there yachts and playing golf on our tax money. We as Americans are struggling just to put food on the table. We as Americans need to do something!!!!! They can’t even help out their own people????? but it really amazes me that we can help out other Countries….

Back in the day, we only agreed to “disagree” for so long, then some fed up crazy bastard would do what we were all thinking. J.F. Kennedy. Robert Kennedy. Martin Luther King. George Wallace.Larry Flint. And less successfully, Ronald Reagan. The time for passive resistance is over.The world is a horrible place to live, but don’t go out alone. Take a republican with you when you go.

Go to the petition and send a message to Washington. http://uspoverty.change.org/petitions/view/we_demand_an_immediate_passage_of_bill_hr_4213_extension_of_unemployment_benefits Mark As Violation