The
Senate will vote tonight (Monday) on final passage of the bill to restore
unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless - finally!
Please don't
leave anything to chance: tell your Senators to vote yes. And tell the
House to take a vote.
Click
here to send emails to your Senators and Representative.
As of
April 5th, more than 2 million unemployed workers have lost jobless benefits because Congress hasn’t acted.
The
Senate seems ready to help - you can make sure they do.
But House
Speaker John Boehner is using every excuse he can think of to prevent UI from
coming up for a vote.
Where
things stand:
The Senate
has taken all the procedural votes. Now the vote on final passage in the
Senate is scheduled for Monday, April 7, at about 5:30 p.m.
But Speaker
Boehner and his leadership team are preventing UI from being voted on in the
House. First they said it needed to be paid for. It is paid for in
the Senate bill. Then they said the expiration has gone on for so long,
it would be too hard to provide retroactive benefits. But Jeff Frischmann,
head of Nevada state unemployment insurance operations, says "We would stand ready and do it...We'll get through it, just like we have in thepast."
What
to do: click
here to send emails to your Senators and Representative.
TODAY - Monday, April 7:
Contact your Senators
and tell them to vote to restore Emergency Unemployment Compensation.
Contact
your Rep. and tell him/her to urge Speaker John Boehner to bring up
the Senate bill to restore Unemployment Compensation for a House vote
ASAP.
Background:
The Senate has gotten through all the procedural votes; now comes
the vote on final passage, which only requires a simple majority. The Senate bill to restore Emergency
Unemployment Compensation (EUC) is a bipartisan agreement on a 5-month
restoration of long-term unemployment benefits (the last resort after all other
federal and state support has been exhausted). Those who were denied assistance
after the program expired on December 28th will get retroactive help. The
bill is an important step forward, made possible because you and many thousands
of constituents held their Senators accountable. But it still needs the
final vote. So please send this email to your senators so they know
you’re still paying attention, because jobless workers desperately need this
help.
Your
representative needs a different message. Speaker Boehner has refused so
far to bring a bill to the floor to restore unemployment insurance. So
every House member must be urged to tell the Speaker to bring the Senate bill
to the floor and to vote for its passage.
