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This will make Bush come out kicking and screaming and holding his breathe until someone takes this bill away! Luckily, for those workers who can't find a job because of our great booming economy under Bush, this bill is going nowhere but into the books.
The House has just passed the Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act, H.R. 5749, by a veto-proof margin of 274-137 after Republicans blocked the legislation yesterday. The legislation will immediately provide up to 13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits in every state to workers exhausting the 26 weeks of regular unemployment benefits, providing much-needed relief to 3.8 million unemployed workers to assist them with rapidly rising gas and food costs, while they continue to struggle to find work in the slowing economy.
A veto proof majority. What a concept!
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