Congress Begins To Embrace Unemployment Benefits Extension Part 2
December 5, 2013 – Nancy Pelosi states that “we can not support a budget agreement without unemployment insurance, it would undermine us as a country”. “This is so unconscionable, it’s practically at the level of immoral to do to people who work hard, play by the rules, lose their job through no fault of their own are not able to continue getting unemployment insurance checks.”
December 12, 2013 – Nancy Pelosi advised her colleagues to “embrace the suck” and vote for the budget bill without any unemployment insurance. Nancy Pelosi advised her colleagues to support a budget bill without any long term unemployment insurance extension even though she previously said the bill would undermine us as a country. Her exact advice was to “embrace the suck”. Her colleague, John Yarmuth, representative from Kentucky’s 3rd District, followed her advise and voted for the budget bill.
In 2014 Nancy Pelosi has also voted for the bill that raised the debt ceiling as well as another budget bill. Neither one of these bills had any provision to extend unemployment insurance. According to Nancy Pelosi’s own definition, Nancy Pelosi and every other member of Congress who votes for these bills that do not include unemployment insurance are immoral.
The Senate has now passed Unemployment Benefits Extension and now it is up to the House of Representatives to do the same. It is up to us to remind President Obama, John Boehner (House Majority Leader) and Nancy Pelosi (House Minority Leader) of their responsibilities to keep their promises to help the unemployed.
Contact President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden by email;
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
Here is how to contact John Boehner to let him know he should support unemployment benefits extension;
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/johnboehner
Email – http://www.speaker.gov/Contact/
Toll-free number: (800) 582-1001
DC Address: The Honorable John A. Boehner
United States House of Representatives
1011 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3508
DC Phone: 202-225-6205
DC Fax: 202-225-0704
Contact Representative Boehner: http://boehner.house.gov/contact/
WWW Homepage: http://boehner.house.gov/
Twitter: @SpeakerBoehner
Here is how to contact Nancy Pelosi to let her know she should support unemployment benefits extension;
DC Address: Nancy Pelosi
United States House of Representatives
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0512
DC Phone: 202-225-4965
DC Fax: 202-225-8259
Contact Representative Pelosi: http://pelosi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
WWW Homepage: http://pelosi.house.gov/
Twitter: @NancyPelosi
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NancyPelosi
District Office:
90 7th Street, Suite 2-800
San Francisco, CA 94103 Voice: 415-556-4862 FAX: 415-861-1670
Thank You!
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