Harry Reid: “Unemployment benefits--and certainly this legislation we deal with here is concerned about unemployment, as I indicated.…”

“Unemployment benefits--and certainly this legislation we deal with here is concerned about unemployment, as I indicated. We talked about this on previous occasions, about the people who have been unemployed, even within the confines of this legislation right here. People about whom I have talked, people on these charts, certainly are included within this bill. There are many people affected when this bill cuts back on a number of programs, people who have lost their jobs. As I indicated here, we have unemployment that has gone up. Actually it was 3.89 percent. The number of impoverished has gone up, the number of uninsured has gone up, the budget deficit has gone up, the national debt has certainly gone up, and judicial vacancies have gone down. Rather than talk about these things in red--impoverishment, uninsured, budget deficit, national debt--we are going to spend 30 hours talking about the three who want a better job, not the over 3 million who are unemployed.”