Then we are still at loggerheads because unemployment compensation has been offered as emergency spending throughout this recession, and now I am not sure where the Senator's pay-fors would come from, but that creates a problem.
Dick Durbin: “Then we are still at loggerheads because unemployment compensation has been offered as emergency spending throughout…”
On the recordJune 29, 2010
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Senator Durbin discusses the challenges surrounding unemployment compensation during the recession.
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