The bill also continues expanded unemployment insurance benefits through 2011 and cuts payrolls taxes by 2%.
Democrats, for their part, are demanding that any last minute deal extend expiring unemployment insurance benefits for two million American.
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You just called on Congress not to leave until they resolve this issue over the payroll tax cuts and unemployment insurance benefits.
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The agreement also prevents two million people from losing unemployment insurance benefits in January by extending emergency UI benefits for one year.
It calls for a permanent fix to the alternative minimum tax, a one-year extension of unemployment insurance benefits, and a five-year extension of other tax breaks.
And that was the case when, after great resistance and reluctance, Congress took action to extend the payroll tax cut and Congress took action to extend unemployment insurance benefits.
One way to muck it up would be to somehow to fail to extend the payroll tax cut, or somehow fail to extend unemployment insurance benefits or the doc fix.
Extension of Emergency Unemployment Insurance benefits for 2 million people: The agreement will prevent 2 million people from losing UI benefits in January by extending emergency unemployment insurance benefits for one year.
This, despite the fact that economists from all political ideologies concluded that extending the length of time that workers can collect unemployment insurance benefits would be one of the most effective stimulus measures.
Finally, as we are moving forward in these areas, we should also extend the relief in the Recovery Act, including emergency assistance to seniors, unemployment insurance benefits, COBRA, and relief to states and localities to prevent layoffs.
Other economists argue that temporarily extending unemployment-insurance benefits would provide the largest bang-for-the-buck compared with a range of other spending and tax-cut proposals.
Expanded unemployment-insurance benefits encourage some workers to keep looking for a job rather than drop out of the workforce altogether, adding perhaps half a percentage point to the unemployment rate, according to the Fed.
Fiscal tightening is programmed to intensify in 2012 as a reduced payroll tax and more generous unemployment-insurance benefits expire at the end of 2011, and federal spending cuts contained in previous budget agreements will take effect.
We extended unemployment insurance and health benefits for those who lost their jobs.
Federal programmes act as automatic fiscal stabilisers, siphoning off tax revenues from booming areas and transferring them to ailing regions as unemployment insurance or health benefits for the poor.
And I called for the extension of emergency relief like unemployment insurance and health benefits to help those who've lost their jobs, while boosting consumer spending and promoting job growth.
And I have called for the extension of unemployment insurance and health benefits to help those who have lost their jobs weather these storms until we reach that brighter day.
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Even those who remained in the fields due to lack of language skills, little education or other barriers still benefited, because they were able to claim unemployment insurance and other benefits when farm work dried up for the season.
Among them: euro-zone-wide unemployment insurance to supplement national benefits when economic shocks hit some countries harder than others.
Unemployment benefits and extending unemployment insurance has and I believe rightfully should be considered emergency spending.
European unemployment insurance could be limited to topping up benefits for short-term jobless.
And this plan will also extend unemployment insurance for another year -- and that benefits over one million Latinos and their families.
When someone who has been out of work gets a job with health insurance benefits, they no longer need unemployment compensation and food stamps, and they no longer need to use the emergency room as their primary care facility.
We're taking the politics out of unemployment insurance for the 2 million people that would stand to lose those benefits this year and the millions more next year that could see those benefits threatened.
It will extend unemployment insurance, helping 2.6 million women in danger of losing their benefits.
Look, we have -- you heard me say on a number of occasions that one of the great benefits of the agreement was taking the politics out of unemployment insurance.
As a result, the Bush-era tax cuts will remain in place for at least two more years, unemployment insurance will be extended for 13 months, and American workers will enjoy the benefits of lower payroll taxes in 2011.
He would let the unemployed continue to collect benefits for up to 99 weeks, and wisely funnel some unemployment-insurance money into retraining and subsidies for hiring the long-term unemployed.
We were also able to get unemployment insurance extended for the millions of Americans out there who are still out of work and whose benefits were about to run out.
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