Hakeem Jeffries: “More than 3 million Americans have been left behind by the failure to renew unemployment insurance. These individuals…”

“More than 3 million Americans have been left behind by the failure to renew unemployment insurance. These individuals live in urban America, in suburban America, and in rural America. They live in blue States and they live in red States. They are simply Americans in need. As a result of the callousness of some in this Chamber, they have been put in great economic jeopardy, and we have cost the economy more than $5 billion. We should be extending a helping hand to these individuals, but instead we have slapped them in the face in a manner that is disrespectful of the compassion of the American people. It is time to do the right thing and to renew unemployment insurance so that we can rescue those Americans left behind on the battlefield of the Great Recession. ____________________”