as a practical matter, the only thing that stands between providing these needed unemployment benefits, the only thing that stands between our doing that is the refusal to approve bringing the bill up by the House Republican leadership and the House Republican committee chairman.
Discussing the delay in unemployment benefits due to House Republican leadership.
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