News & Politics

Rant

47 House Members Stand Up for the Unemployed

Posted 15 months ago|1 comment|465 views
Written by
House Bill H.R. 589, Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011 has received the sponsorship of 47 House Representatives.

While this bill does not create a Tier 5 for 99ers, it will add 14 more weeks to Tier 1 and benefit all unemployed Americans. More important, according to many sources writing about this bill, has the funding needed to pass the Republican controlled house.

If your House representative is not included in the following list, write, email, call or fax them in support of this legislation today:

Rep Baca, Joe [CA-43] - 2/9/2011
Rep Bass, Karen [CA-33] - 2/9/2011
Rep Brady, Robert A. [PA-1] - 2/9/2011
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 2/9/2011
Rep Carson, Andre [IN-7] - 2/9/2011
Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11] - 2/9/2011
Rep Cleaver, Emanuel [MO-5] - 2/9/2011
Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9] - 2/9/2011
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 2/9/2011
Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7] - 2/9/2011
Rep Edwards, Donna F. [MD-4] - 2/9/2011
Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] - 2/9/2011
Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA-2] - 2/9/2011
Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] - 2/9/2011
Rep Fudge, Marcia L. [OH-11] - 2/9/2011
Rep Green, Al [TX-9] - 2/9/2011
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 2/9/2011
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 2/9/2011
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 2/9/2011
Rep Hirono, Mazie K. [HI-2] - 2/9/2011
Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-15] - 2/9/2011
Rep Jackson Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 2/9/2011
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 2/9/2011
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] - 2/9/2011
Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [GA-4] - 2/9/2011
Rep Kaptur, Marcy [OH-9] - 2/9/2011
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 2/9/2011
Rep Loebsack, David [IA-2] - 2/9/2011
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. [NY-14] - 2/9/2011
Rep Meeks, Gregory W. [NY-6] - 2/9/2011
Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 2/9/2011
Rep Moore, Gwen [WI-4] - 2/9/2011
Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] - 2/9/2011
Rep Napolitano, Grace F. [CA-38] - 2/9/2011
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 2/9/2011
Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10] - 2/9/2011
Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] - 2/9/2011
Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille [CA-34] - 2/9/2011
Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] - 2/9/2011
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 2/9/2011
Rep Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [VA-3] - 2/9/2011
Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] - 2/9/2011
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 2/9/2011
Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2] - 2/9/2011
Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] - 2/9/2011
Rep Waters, Maxine [CA-35] - 2/9/2011
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 2/9/2011

For more information on this legislation: H.R. 589 Summary & Staus

EMAIL|FLAG THIS POST
COMMENTS
Content Removed by 99erActionUnion
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
Williamston, SC
15 months ago: American 99er's are the largest growing unorganized group of people in the nation. The people of Egypt, via protest, removed President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak from his office. Why don't the American 99er's show the same passion? Oh sure we send a couple of emails to our House and Senate members, but the messages are simply blocked. We place calls to the same Congress people and a 20 year intern runs interference. We start a blog, or two, or three, but no one reads them except other 99er's. We can sit back and do nothing and that's exactly what will happen, nothing. Sure we want a Tier 5, but are we willing to protest or take action for it? Probably not, THAT WOULD TAKE AN EFFORT. Why should Congress listen to us, we're not doing anything. No major network has picked up on our story, nor placed us in the homes of American's nightly. We are absolutely no threat to the government what so ever. We continue to allow the Department of Labor to report their concocted unemployment reports and sit back and say "oh well, what can I do"? Depending on who's report you read there's anywhere from 1 to 15 million 99er's. Many 99er's out there helped to form the non-violent protest movements, the love-in's, or the sitting in's. I AM NOT SUGGESTING VIOLENCE HERE, but why haven't 99er's packed the National Mall in D.C.? Let's show America exactly how many there are of us. Shatter the government's unemployment numbers. If we continue to take the same measures we are taking now, we are going to get the same results we have now. Nothing. The 99er's biggest problem . . . getting up from our comfort zone and taking action!

Post a Comment
Sign in or sign up to post a comment.