Senate Proceeding on Oct 28th, 2009 :: 5:00:10 to 5:01:15
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to the end of their unemployment coverage. it has expired and they've lost their incomes. and as the senator from illinois, the distinguished presiding officer, so distinctly knows, there are millions and millions of families in this country who live paycheck to paycheck. and when they live unemployment check to

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unemployment check while they desperately seek work to feed their families and put a roof over their heads. this bill, if we could get to it, and if we could vote on it, would provide a badly needed lifeline to those americans, and i would hope that at some point

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our republican colleagues would relent and simply let us make this decision that is in the best interests of everybody. it is just inhumane, frankly, to put those families -- 7,000 a day -- through the torment of coming to the end of their income and having to think about

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losing their houses, losing their cars, not paying for their prescriptions, not paying for their food, worrying about their children, all of that. that's an awfully high price to score political points on this floor and to be the party of slow and the part of no. and i would hope that their point of view will change on this.