Richard Blumenthal: “I think it makes us passionate about this cause, because it has such wide-ranging ramifications.”

Long-term unemployment is devastating for someone’s financial security, future job opportunities, and overall wellbeing—and it can take a toll on our economy as well.

There’s no excuse for this administration disobeying the law and withholding this funding.

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.

Sen. Blackburn and I will fight as long and hard as necessary to pass this bill.