House Dems Step Up To Stop Unemployment Insurance Expiration
Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.), the House Ways and Means Committee ranking member, said Tuesday that he is determined to see a yearlong extension passed before the benefits expire on Dec. 29.
Levin said he would refuse to accept a reduction in the number of weeks or any other trade-off as part of an extension.
“I think it’s heartless to talk about a further reduction,” he said.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.