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Dems look to jam GOP on unemployment insurance
Dems look to jam GOP on unemployment insurance
BY GREG SARGENT
December 5 at 1:46 pm
This, from Nancy Pelosi at a presser today, is a very interesting move:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said Democrats would not support a budget deal that does not extend emergency unemployment benefits, which are set to lapse on Dec. 28 for about 1.3 million people.
“Yes indeed, we are making a very clear statement that we cannot, cannot support a budget agreement that does not include unemployment insurance in the budget or as a sidebar in order to move it all along,” she said at a hearing she held on unemployment benefits. “It would undermine who we are as a country.”
“Yes indeed, we are making a very clear statement that we cannot, cannot support a budget agreement that does not include unemployment insurance in the budget or as a sidebar in order to move it all along,” she said at a hearing she held on unemployment benefits. “It would undermine who we are as a country.”
If this Dem hard line on unemployment insurance holds, it add another interesting, and unpredictable, factor to the ongoing budget talks, which are currently ongoing between Senator Patty Murray and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan.
According to a House Democratic leadership aide, the idea here is that, if the two reach a short term budget deal that funds the government at spending levels that are higher than the sequester, which is reportedly what is near happening, it will be harder for GOP leaders to round up House Republican support for it. That will mean a greater need for Dems in order to pass any final deal through the House. This gives Dems leverage to press House Republicans to agree to extend unemployment benefits. Pelosi’s suggestion of a “sidebar” seems important — it’s a signal that Republicans can find some other way to get it done, but get it done they must.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/05/dems-look-to-jam-gop-on-unemployment-insurance/
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