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Floor Speech Text:
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge support for the Flexibility to Promote Reemployment Act.
"Under the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, states were granted unprecedented flexibility in the use of their Unemployment Insurance funds to help unemployed individuals collect paychecks instead of benefit checks.
"Unfortunately for states, the DOL issued restrictive, burdensome and costly application requirements. To date, one state has completed the application process, only to have their application swiftly denied.
The Flexibility to Promote Reemployment Act increases flexibility in the use of state UI funds by enabling the DOL to revisit current application guidance and allow states to operate demonstration projects that test alternative means of helping the unemployed return to work.
At a time when our unemployment rate remains unacceptably high, we need to be doing everything we can to advance solutions that will promote job creation. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this common sense legislation.
"Thank you, and I yield back my time."
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