Bill Clinton: “Let me finish my answer. You get to ask, I get to answer. My answer is, it is intended to be a 13-week extension. If…”

“Let me finish my answer. You get to ask, I get to answer. My answer is, it is intended to be a 13-week extension. If there needs to be a cutoff point so it is absolutely clear that this is the intention, we stand ready to do that. In contrast, the bill the House is working on is a 5-week extension for those who already are in the system, and then it is over. No more help. From my perspective, representing 300,000 unemployed New Yorkers, 120,000 of whom lost their jobs directly as a result of September 11, it is very hard to go back to New York and look at people such as Felix Batista who worked for 22 years at Windows on the World, with four children--luckily was not there that day when the terrorist attack occurred--and has not been able to find work, even though we have all been trying to help him. He is a man of limited skills, but a good, hard-working person, a father of four. He has no help. What is he supposed to do? Let me ask that question of the Senator from Oklahoma. Where is my office supposed to send literally thousands of people who have no work because the economy is not producing jobs?”