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On the recordMay 28, 2010
The basic bill has been here for more than a week, and so anyone who says they don't know what's in it has failed to read it. It says, and it means, jobs and jobs and jobs. There are provisions for business, there are provisions for local communities in terms of infrastructure. We're talking about supporting millions of jobs in this country, and so we will get to that. I think your discomfort is that this indeed is a jobs bill and it will create more jobs, and the path has been started some months ago. Contrary to the path under the Bush administration, when jobs were lost, now they are being gained, and this bill will help gain them further. Secondly, the gentleman from California talked about the unemployment rate in California. This bill extends unemployment compensation through the end of November of this year. So when he has a chance to help the hundreds of thousands of unemployed people who are looking for work in California--and those of you on the minority side who also face unemployment and who have tens, if not thousands, of people who are unemployed--how are you going to vote? Are you going to turn your backs on the unemployed who are looking for work?
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California
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May 28, 2010

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The speaker discusses a jobs bill and its impact on employment and unemployment compensation.

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