Cummings Votes To Help Unemployed Americans
Congressman continues the fight for
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H.R. 5618 will extend unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to millions of Americans families. This is urgently needed after weeks of Senate Republicans’ ongoing obstruction of job creating legislation that extended critical unemployment insurance benefits to help Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
“We cannot allow people who have lost everything to have their hope taken as well,” said Cummings. “Nearly two million American families are without their economic lifeline because of the latest Republican obstruction in the Senate. We will not abandon these families. It is time to put aside partisan politics and start standing with the American people.”
H.R. 5618 would extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) and Extended Benefits programs through November 30, 2010. The legislation would retroactively restore benefits to people who may have started losing their benefits as early as the end of May.
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