Bill Clinton: “It includes States with concentrated high unemployment. That is true, there is a slightly different trigger. Again, I…”

“It includes States with concentrated high unemployment. That is true, there is a slightly different trigger. Again, I was not around in 1991 and 1992, so I cannot speak to what the Senator would or would not have done. The fact is, we have a problem. We have tried repeatedly--eight separate times--to work out some way to provide some additional benefits for people who deserve them. If there is a way to work out a better approach, to do something that will clearly meet the objections of the Senator from Oklahoma, I stand ready to do that. I am just worried about all of these decent people who are running out of unemployment benefits. There is nowhere for them to go. I do not know what else to bring to the floor other than those stories. We can argue about triggers. I am sure between the two of us, we can fix a trigger if there was a willingness to act on that. What is coming over from the House, larded with other controversial provisions, is not a good-faith effort to extend unemployment benefits to people in need. It is an effort to basically try to say something was done which will not have any lasting benefit for those who are most in need.”