As I mentioned in my post yesterday, Senator Reid's office: Unemployment extension legislation vote scheduled for Tuesday at 2:30, that once the interim senator appointed by WV Gov. Manchin is sworn in the Senate will vote on unemployment extension legislation. A new issue is that the House will then have to vote to accept any changes the Senate makes to the legislation.
Manchin’s appointment to the seat of the late Senator Byrd is expected shortly, but the governor appears to have made his selection:
Associated Press Friday is reporting Gov. Joe Manchin will name attorney Carte Goodwin as a temporary U.S. senator to serve until the next election.
Goodwin is an attorney with Goodwin and Goodwin in Charleston where he was Manchin's general counsel from 2005 to 2009. An announcement is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the governor's office.
The version of the unemployment legislation has yet to be released, but according to Senator Reid’s office the legislation will look similar to the legislation proposed two weeks ago - H.R. 4213 - which is the bill that failed to pass by one vote on June 30 because 39 Republicans and Democrat Ben Nelson voted against it.
The unemployment related contents of that legislation are presented below. The Home Buyers Tax Credit piece of the legislation has already been approved.
Summary of Reid-Baucus Substitute Amendment
Unemployment Insurance
Extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program - The Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program phased-out at the end of May 2010. This program provides (depending on a State’s unemployment rate) up to fifty-three (53) weeks of extended benefits. The bill would extend the EUC program through November 2010 and is retroactive.
Extension of Extended Benefits (EB) program - 100% Federal funding for the Extended Benefits (EB) program phased-out at the end of May 2010. This program provides up to an additional 13 to 20 weeks of benefits in certain States (i.e., 13 weeks for States at or above 6.5% unemployment and another 7 weeks for States at or above 8% unemployment). The bill would extend full funding for the EB program through November 2010.
Eliminating the penalty for part-time employment in the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program - The legislation coordinates EUC Benefits with regular Benefits by providing States with a number of options to allow EUC claimants to remain eligible for the EUC program when they become newly entitled to State unemployment compensation if switching to State benefits would reduce their weekly UI check by at least $100 or 25 percent.
The three provisions immediately above are estimated to cost $33.9 billion over ten years.
There is some need for caution as this legislation moves forward because the House will then have to agree to any changes that the Senate makes to the original bill. If the Senate passes legislation as it was written in the House, the bill would then go directly to President Obama for his signature into law. But the unemployment legislation that eventually passes in the Senate next week will likely contain changes to the House legislation. As a result, according to a Democrat Senate aide, the House will then need to review and approve those Senate changes.
Unfortunately the legislation does not contain any relief for the 99ers - those that have exhausted all unemployment benefits. This crisis still needs to be addressed, but it doesn't seem to be addressed as quickly as needed. For current 99er information please pay a visit to 99er advocate and Examiner writer LaDona King's site at http://www.examiner.com/x-45498-San-Diego-Unemployment-Examiner. I'll be continuing my involvement with 99er issues as well in upcoming posts.
The article that follows describes (emphasis mine) the Senate process.
Senators have not seen the bill they will be voting on next week but it is expected to be similar to the House bill and the one narrowly rejected by the Senate, a source in Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office says.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/pender/detail?&entry_id=67999#ixzz0tqPnduUc
Whenever I see a statement such as “Senators have not seen the bill they will be voting on’ I have some concern, since the legislation needs to be agreeable to the two Republican Senators from Maine who voted with the Democrats. If the legislation is changed the House will also need to approve those changes. The House is likely to act quickly, but any delay is going to cause havoc to the lives of millions of unemployed.
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Comments
Why is there another bill that hasn't been seen? Why don't they vote again on the one that lost by one vote before the recess? I thought the intention of Reid voting no was so he could reintroduce the bill. What happened to the stand alone bill that passed the House? This is assanine!
what about us 99ers
ENOUGH OF THIS F'N NONSENSE!!!!! PASS THE BILL AND QUIT THE POLITICAL BS!!!! THERE IS ALWAYS SOME STUPID PROCEDURE THAT EQUATES TO NOTHING THAT HAS TO BE DONE - NOVEMBER CAMPAIGN SLOGAN? NO MORE IMCUMBANTS!!!!
Sign this! "Petition to Reduce the Wages of Congress Men and Women from $174,000 per year to $50,000 per year." At Change org dot com.
Pass it on!
Just left v-mail for NP (no human would speak with me)...How dare you (she) pretend there are no 99ers. We have been unemployed longer and already lost everything (but our "health"). Is this a way of driving a wedge between currently eligible unemployed and 99ers? Break up the monotony? Pare the crowd some? The riots won't be so large? I forcefully stated that she and her dull bulb boy, Harry, HAVE to put us on the front page. At least say the words: Tier V, 99ers...give us hope if nothing else.
I guess I would be one of those 99ers that got cut off early ! I tried to pick myself back up, did take another job and was laid off after 17 weeks due again to this economy. Well after going thru tiers 1-4 looks like I dont get the addtional 20 weeks from FED ED to make even my 99 weeks. Why ? because I took another job that messed with my base period. Nice ! The following is the reply from EDD about FED ED for me :
The only extension that you have not collected on is the 20 week FED-ED. You don’t qualify for that extension because, unlike the other extensions, it is based on your most recent, valid claim. The claim had to have at least 20 weeks of benefits in it to qualify for the FED-ED and your last valid claim had 17 weeks.
The average time it is taking the seasoned, experienced, degreed individual to gain employment after an unexpected layoff is more than six months (24+ weeks). Why would we only have unemplyment insurance for a 13 week period and expect that to work?
To the individual who wants to reduce whitehouse pay from 174k to 50 k does not have much touch with reality. The cost of living in Dc is not low. $174k is not making anyone rich. $50k however would be poverty.
In my opinion this replacement is awful, a rich attorney is going to fill the seat that byrd left behind! Does anyone know where he stands on unemployment, let alone the 99ers?
ok wow this is BS! My husband lost his job and as a result had to return to school at 30 years old I work full time, however my hours just got cut, and we have a 21 month old. So now an answer we were supposed to have today, we won't get until tuesday...thats nothing but bull! pass the bill so i can have the money to pay my bills.
Ill do that job for 50k,(I dont know any part time job that pays that, especially with full bennies) with 36 weeks off a year you could afford to live in DC part time
Just left v-mail for NP (no human would speak with me)...How dare you (she) pretend there are no 99ers. We have been unemployed longer and already lost everything (but our "health"). Is this a way of driving a wedge between currently eligible unemployed and 99ers? Break up the monotony? Pare the crowd some? The riots won't be so large? I forcefully stated that she and her dull bulb boy, Harry, HAVE to put us on the front page. At least say the words: Tier V, 99ers...give us hope if nothing else.
Amend the legislation to include the 99er's!!!!!!!!
Well, I signed the petition for 50k salaries. To bad it didn't list some concessions on benefits.
@blistered Amen to that! They should also be subject to background checks on how theyve obtained every dollar, so we could weed out the thieves/crooks as well!
This current system is unfair! I am not a 99er but what are they supposed to do JUST DIE? I am behind them 100%.
ALL unemployed need to band together, and help those who exhausted their benefits (99er's) Lets do it now! e-mail on the way.
Lets make those people earn their money. CALL, CALL, E-MAIL E-MAIL. I will vote for anyone other than repubs or dems.
Democrats are taking the safe road on this. Get the unemployment bill to pass. And the only way to do that is to leave out the 99ers. That way they can go home to campaign and wave the banner around that they did help out the unemployment.
The only way I can see any 99ers getting help is to band together and solicit news media outlets to promote their story.
Just left v-mail for NP (no human would speak with me)...How dare you (she) pretend there are no 99ers. We have been unemployed longer and already lost everything (but our "health"). Is this a way of driving a wedge between currently eligible unemployed and 99ers? Break up the monotony? Pare the crowd some? The riots won't be so large? I forcefully stated that she and her dull bulb boy, Harry, HAVE to put us on the front page. At least say the words: Tier V, 99ers...give us hope if nothing else.
ive been e-mailing the news networks as well!
I greatly appreciate what you and others do for the unemployed re: reporting and giving us information easily.
I know that you have spoken of the 99ers and I am one of them, single woman, 59 1/2 yrs. old, out of work since 4/07 and applied for food stamps (waiting)
for the 1st time in my life. I am an ovarian cancer survivor, breast cancer survivor and one tough broad but I am at my total breaking point! I do not know what I will do. I thought the vote coming up (I've been following you for weeks) included the 99ers and was keeping up some hope.
I will run out of money shortly - probably file for bankruptcy as I've been paying my bills including my enormous debt each month along with a mortgage, etc.
I know I'm not alone. I have applied for 100's of jobs - can do legal sec., medical .... , former Reading Specialist. I know you hear this but who hears us?
I've emailed my reps (both Dems) and they did vote for the UE extension. I can write better but too exhausted! say 99er
Who is helping us with the oil spill in the gulf? Are there any countries helping us and we help all these other countries with money when a crises happens. But we cant help are people, America help your people yes you senators,we are the people that were laid off do to no fault of are own. Make me proud to be an american,this is so unbelievable the way you are treating your own people,Pass the bill I am so tired of hearing excuse after excuse get this done Republicans you owe it to your people we are
in this mess because of president Bush and let me remind you he is a Republican yes a Republican. I try to get work every day, and i want a job not 1/3 of pay what i used to receive. But there is no jobs to get in this economy. So please give me what i've paid into for thirty years. This is the first time I've been on unemployment in my life and hopefully the last and I'm just asking for what is owed to me. I'm a single parent with a 9 and 7 year old and i"m about to lose my house. HELP!
And as far as other programs to help out 99ers. I just found out that my sister who is a 99er is now trying to get disability. She feels forced to do this since she has 3 kids to feed and get ready for school.
Michael bring this up in your next letters to the people you talk to about increasing debt with state programs such as disability, and food stamps in comparison to federal extended unemployment benefits.
This deplorable, I am on a mission to help everyone unemployed. I, for the first time since 18 years old registered to vote, now 57.
WE really need to stand together hell or high water on this!!!!
I am for everyone who is unemployed at no fault of there own to get extensions and that means all of us.
We did not do this to this country, big bank and wall street did. The goverment needs to help us all, not just them.
Vote in November!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will not vote republican again. I feel they have hurt us all with this and then turned around and wanted us to take a drug test and called us lazy. They can Kiss it where the sun does not shine.
i previously worked at a place called US manufacturing prior to this downturn. they made axles, they were the worst, in one year i was one of the top in seniority due to them hiring and firing over 500 people in that year! they were awful in the way they treated people, it was a sweat/slave shop! i ended up quiting and the place i went to closed their doors! they are now in the UAW! that was when things were good i could only imagine how many places are instituting the revolving door policy! I believe that company recieved a tax incentive for each new hire (by that i mean that the government paid a portion of their wages)! So we need to be dilegent of that as well! My body has never been the same since!
Why are we Americans still going through this BS. I notice there's almost NO MEDIA Attention regarding this issue. I guess we all have to wait till November. No problem, I will make it my duty as an American to get out these nasty ass Demorcrats, Republicans, and hopefully that Bum ass President we have name Obama........ out of office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just left v-mail for NP (no human would speak with me)...How dare you (she) pretend there are no 99ers. We have been unemployed longer and already lost everything (but our "health"). Is this a way of driving a wedge between currently eligible unemployed and 99ers? Break up the monotony? Pare the crowd some? The riots won't be so large? I forcefully stated that she and her dull bulb boy, Harry, HAVE to put us on the front page. At least say the words: Tier V, 99ers...give us hope if nothing else.
@stillhurtin- so you worked for us manufacturing they had a plant in port huron also. i hope they include us that vote tuseday i tell you i'm about ready to go out mind waiting!!!
@ unhappy us manufacturing consolidated 3 smaller plants the ones in port huron, bad axe and lexington and moved to the old tank plant in warren! i worked for them a-holes for 1 year back in 05, it was the most physical job of my life, i was literally on a diet of pain killers, every day as i worked 7 days a week through the pain! most people that sustained employment there have had to have back surgery!
Mike, thanks again for another great article. This is good news for many, but it should be a sobering reminder that if nothing is done for the "99ers" in this bill, it likely will not get done later. I really suspect this is a one-shot deal, and hope that someone will at least propose including it in this bill.
@ unhappy, so far no mention of us 99ers, this looks like the first time i will physically go out and vote! i just now seen that bouchard commercial, hes a buthead! you by the bluewater bridge?
The Unemployment Extension Benefits is good bills that will help ours economics . Better than our goverments spend money for the other country. GOP, please vote yes on the bills to help ours working Americans. Is time ours country United together to solves ours economics..not pointing fingers Dem.+ GOP= Great
All better be aware of money/rich influencing elections. I hope most are familiar with a decision made recently allowing millions of dollars financing candidates elections. Corporations can now spend unlimited amounts on their choice.
I wonder what they're going to name this country in the near future?
west of port huron/blue water bridge
Well we all know the Repulicans don't mean to help any of us, they plan to fight and not extend unemployment in hopes it will make the Democarts look bad. Then they can sit back and reap the rewards. To tell the truth right now I can't either one of them and I don't mean anyone from both sides that did vote yes, I mean those sorry worthless SOB's that have held up unemployment and refuse to add tier 5 for months. Lucky for the 99ers some of the Democrats are on our sides, but I'm sad to say they are so far standing alone. They want help the 99ers because if they did, all that things are getting better crap will come to a screeching hault. Because the unofficial number of JUST 99ERS is about 2 million people, so you know they can't let that leak out. Because we are only a 3rd of the total umemployed they will only help the majority. It's like playing war, kill the civilians to kill the enemy. 99ers we are those civilians being killed to stop a financial enemy, we are victoms of war.
I have to say it seems to me no one ever seems to talk about the real problem in this country,very few people have almost all the money. Isn't funny when you see all those people talk about how bad the president is they make about a million or more a year to say that. The real worker made about $6.00 per hour plus good benefits in 1980. Now they want you to work for 9.00 per hour and no benefits. Then they can't figure out why people are not buying things. How about this The rich have taken the money from us and we can not afford to buy much of anything. I have lost my job, my home,my health care,my credit, my health and now unemployment benefits, the only good thing I can say is except for my tent and library card there is nothing else you can take from me. Hey rich folks have a party! You have now ruined the lives of millions of Americans, I wonder how you can sleep at night. Maybe you will suffer for me the way I have suffered for you someday, that is my prayer to God. Praise God
Why are the Dems not talking about this every day?
Why are Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi not putting jobs and UI bills up for a vote every day?
If they really want to keep their majority this fall, they need to stop skirting around the issue and show that the Republicans are vile and want nothing more than to inflict as much pain as possible on the most vulnerable in our society!
Repubicans don't give a damn about you, they only want your money or your vote after that you are a liability to them, just look at how they have tried to stop health care, financial reform, unempolyment extension etc. if it helps the common working person they are against it. If it helps the rich they are for it, if you are rich you should vote republican, if your not you only making yourself more poor everyday. I feel Obama is doing alot more for us than Bush ever did, I think he should get some credit for trying to help us even if republicans keep trying to keep the rich happy.
I worked for over thirty five years in construction and never collected an unemployment check, now that the wall street crooks, banks and other big money places ripped us off and got reimbursed for it,I have tried to get a job anywhere . Im almost 60 so no one wants to hire me,to all those working I am very happy for you, be gratefull, for those who are down to there last unemployment check I share you pain last week was mine and now in one week I will be living on the street what a nice retirement after almost 40 years of working, maybe we will meet in tent city. What ever happen to the this great country? greed is destroying the USA
I liked your article, I liked what the guy said about few people having most of the money, the rich seem to control this country, the republican party is selling out this country to the rich. I won't ever vote for a republican canidate because they won't stand up for what is right they just vote to please there parties interest not the peoples interest, I hope the democrates win more seats so maybe we can actually get something done I am not a democrate or republican I am an independent,hopefully the people we elect will vote for what the people need not for what the republicam party wants or just to say no to another party's ideas because they can't come up with there own leadership
Please help the unemployed, we seem to help everyone in the world more than we do our own citizens, maybe the profit is in doing that, seems to me that is what we are all about thes days at least those who are in control.We need Robin Hood
Just left v-mail for NP (no human would speak with me)...How dare you (she) pretend there are no 99ers. We have been unemployed longer and already lost everything (but our "health"). Is this a way of driving a wedge between currently eligible unemployed and 99ers? Break up the monotony? Pare the crowd some? The riots won't be so large? I forcefully stated that she and her dull bulb boy, Harry, HAVE to put us on the front page. At least say the words: Tier V, 99ers...give us hope if nothing else.
At least this Obama Admin. did alots of thing for ours people than Bush Admin. Republicans need to think. Republicans=rich people, they don't care hard working ,and poors americans.
@stilhurtin-food for thought i was talking to couple of my friends that have lost their jobs and have not reach the 99 point. they told me they received a letter in the mail today from unemployment that said they will be receiving their emergency extension. now how can that be if they haven't voted on it yet??? they live in michigan
@ unhappy, that doesnt make any sense, the only thing i could figure is maybe the state is paying for it instead of the feds, but we both know the state is broke (unless the state got federal funding)! if you get a chance ask them what tiers they are in and how many weeks they are supposed to be eligable for? oh and when they are to start recieving their fisrt checks? i remember awhile ago it seemed that florida bypassed the feds and did something on the state level but dont quote me on that! that could be one way around the senate a-holes!
I am posting this on every forum for UI. The majority of people posting on this site should be diligently searching for a job. Are they? No. Hate to tell you but if you had a job in mortagage or construction, that job will not be returning at the level of salary you may have grown accustomed to. With that being said, get up off your duff and apply anywhere to get you over this hump. A few more weeks of unemployment will not help you save that mcmansion that you could not afford in the first place nor that high end car you are tooling around in. America was not built on debt. Cut the cards up. America was built on the sweat of hard working Americans. Quit being whiners and wanting a lifestyle that you were not entitled too in the first place. Most Americans know that the majority of those who are receiving this entitlement are deadbeats who don't want to get a job. I can't wait until November when we retake the house and senate and 2012 when we retake the White House
oh tina is a heartless b itch
Ktran are you even American. Your English is horrible. Are you paid by demos to post. Please people, vote the democrates out. Republicans care about this country. Even though the years under Bush were not always the best, he at least cared for America. Obama cares for counties overseas.
@ tina you r a true republican pay for wars we shouldnt be in! i cant wait to so you cry! b itch
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