Political Quotes

“What this says is if we don't act to extend unemployment insurance, to give people some help, to get from joblessness to a job, to get across that long bridge, 111,000 Pennsylvanians will be out of unemployment insurance by the end of June. Unfortunately, that number goes up by another 94,000 at the end of July if we do nothing. By the end of this year, 429,200 Pennsylvanians will have no unemployment insurance. We have to act on that. It makes all the sense in the world when we are recovering--and we are in recovery, thank goodness, but we have a way to go--that we give people the opportunity to at least have the peace of mind to know they have unemployment insurance. Secondly, with regard to COBRA, if anyone has any doubts as to what this means to real people, I would submit one part of one sentence from a single Pennsylvanian by the name of Lisa. She sent a letter to me talking about chemotherapy treatments she needs and the COBRA premium assistance. She said: ``COBRA benefits have kept me alive.'' That is exactly what we are talking about here--about life and death. Why should a family--as they are trying to get a job, trying to find their way out of joblessness--why should they have to worry and have the additional nightmare of having no health insurance? We can help so many Americans as we did in the Recovery Act. Two million households across the country were helped by the COBRA premium assistance program in 2009.…”