GOP “Regular Order” – Poison Pills, Sleight-Of-Hand, and
HR 3630 see Main Street article provides the National Employment Law Project summary up just the Unemployment Insurance smack down in HR 3630:
•H.R. 3630 shortens the federal unemployment benefit period by a whopping 40 weeks, even as the average length of unemployment is at its highest since 1948.
•H.R. 3630 overrides the power of the individual states to determine eligibility for unemployment benefits.
•H.R. 3630 eliminates Tier IV of unemployment compensation, removing a vital lifeline specifically from those states with the highest rates of unemployment.
•H.R. 3630 charges unemployed workers for the cost of their own reemployment.
•H.R. 3630 imposes the requirement of a high school diploma or GED to be eligible for benefits, an unfair burden on those with less access to education.
•And in an insult to the millions of American who are unemployed through no fault of their own, the bill allows states to test every UI applicant for drug use.
Suddenly the full year extension is “important” – we agree with the president (?)
Changes – Boehner would not specify “If there are differences”
Keystone Pipeline
The regular order o GOP strategy is
GOP senate –
Kicking the can
Invoking regular order House will disagree and cause conference
Certainty for job creators
Using Obama’s words against him, “president’s example”
