Senate Agrees to Move Forward on Extending Emergency Unemployment Compensation
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
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On Tuesday the Senate's invoked cloture on a three-month extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation:
agreeing to move forward on legislation to extend emergency unemployment benefits that had expired on Dec. 28.
The recently lapsed version of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program was first passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President Bush in 2008. Failure to extend these benefits at a moment when long-term unemployment is this high would be historically unprecedented.
Senators Reed and Heller presented the current legislation and were instrumental in their leadership to move this legislation forward. The Senate voted 60-37 to limit debate on the measure. Six Republicans joined all Senate Democrats in voting to advance the bipartisan Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act (S. 1845). The bill would provide a three-month extension of the emergency unemployment insurance program through March 2014, and make the payment of UI benefits retroactive. The program lapsed on December 28, 2013.
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