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Don Nickles: “I will tell my colleague, I will never agree to this language passing. I will also tell my colleague, if she is…”

On the recordNovember 14, 2002
I will tell my colleague, I will never agree to this language passing. I will also tell my colleague, if she is politicizing this, talking about the first Bush recession and the second Bush recession, the first compensation package did not have the same triggers. I did not agree with the first. I do not like the language that somebody who gets a job is still counted as unemployed for these rates. I would never agree to it. I did not know it was in the first program ten or so years ago, and it will not be in the next one if I am still standing around here. I also ask my colleague, are not the triggers different under this proposal than the compensation packages that passed in the early nineties?
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Discussing concerns over unemployment compensation language during a Senate debate.

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