John Tierney: “I need to express my wish to have the unemployment benefits extended as soon as possible.”

I am, in its present form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Tierney moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 4984, to the Committee on Education and the Workforce with…

At this time, I would like to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas, Ruben Hinojosa, who has been deeply involved in the passage of this bill.

I just know that we have been making a comparison here today that if we could change the committee's function off of trying to usurp a decision by the board that hasn't been made yet, we could talk about raising the minimum wage, which in…

The argument that extending benefits removes incentive to find a job is ludicrous.