On the recordDecember 7, 2011
I tell you, that is a very moving letter. You say she had to move with a teenage daughter back into her mom's house. I mean, teenage kids need things other than food. Something like toilet paper becomes an issue when you're sharing a household and when you don't have enough money to make those contributions. The other thing that makes me very curious, Representative Levin, is the rhetoric around the desire to help small businesses. Do you realize if we don't extend this unemployment benefit, economists have calculated that, in 2012, this will take $90 billion out of the economy? You won't buy that teenager shoes because you're unemployed.
