Louise Slaughter: “I appreciate that people who are unemployed, who have families to feed, who have mortgages to pay, who have no prospects…”

“I appreciate that people who are unemployed, who have families to feed, who have mortgages to pay, who have no prospects immediately of a job are not terribly interested whether or not we do away with an Alternative Minimum Tax and give money back to IBM and money back to Enron and money back to major corporations in the United States. They simply want some kind of action here. In all times of trouble, when we have this kind of unemployment rate, it has been the policy of the government of the United States to extend unemployment. For some reason, we simply cannot seem to get that done here. I am appalled at that and urge that that be rectified.”