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House Passes Watered-Down Jobs Bill, Too Late to Help Jobless
By 215-204, the U.S. House today passed a watered-down version of H.R. 4213, “The Promoting American Jobs, Closing Tax Loopholes and Preventing Outsourcing Act of 2010.” The bill extends unemployment insurance (UI) for six months. But the Senate, now on vacation, will not even consider the bill until the week of June 7, a week after UI expires for millions of jobless workers.
The bill that passed today did not include the COBRA extension or Medicaid assistance to the states. It does include $23 billion in funding to put off 21 percent cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors for 19 months and ensures that Medicare beneficiaries have access to quality and affordable medical care. It also includes subsidies for local infrastructure projects by extending the Build America Bonds program and funds for summer job creation.
Earlier this week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told members of Congress, “If you’re not for this bill, you’re not for jobs.” Today, Trumka says:
We are profoundly disappointed and angry with representatives in Congress—Democrats as well as Republicans—who refused to support health care for the unemployed and job-saving critical aid to cash-strapped states in the original version of H.R. 4213. Working family voters will not forget who sided with them and who did not.
We are in a jobs emergency—a national crisis. Millions of lives are in ruins and children are being condemned to poverty. Excuses from their elected representatives are of no help to them. Trumka praised the hard work by House Majority Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who pushed to get passage of the original, stronger jobs bill. Trumka called on the Senate to approve the UI extension as soon as it returns from the Memorial Day recess and urges the House to move quickly to restore health care benefits for jobless workers and aid to states to maintain jobs and vital services.
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Yes we will remember those scumbags that decided that workers are less important than them!!They will be returned to privacy by us workers!!!
All those scumbag politicians are only parts of a puzzle.The real decision makers are in the SHADOWS and are never seen.
What is really most important is for the PEOPLE to demand to know what the Federal Reserve is doing.Everything that is happening today in the World would be known,once the Fed is exposed.
too little, too late. Is that the motto of this congress?
Of course the motto of the gop is never and none.
Hard to believe we have entered a new era of hope
This government serves for the welfare of the paper wealth behind Wall Street, period.
Labor wealth is considered a business loss to Wall Street and so will always be marginalized by our government.
Until we the workers of this country come together and take the offense position, nothing will change.
Until we confront the paper profiteers, the wealth of Wall Street, nothing will change.
It must be the immigrants’ fault.
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