CBC to Meet With President Obama THURSDAY on HR 589 - Contact Information!

• 1. Budget strategies to end systemic “pockets” of poverty (also known as “10-20-30″)
  2. Redistricting and Section 5 of the Voting right Act
  3. The 99ers and unemployment extensions (H.R. 589)
  4. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
  5. NIH funding, health care disparities

DesperateInRI wrote:President Obama will meet the full CBC membership next week at the White House. Based on their last meeting in March, they will continue to focus on these five topics:

• 1. Budget strategies to end systemic “pockets” of poverty (also known as “10-20-30″)
  2. Redistricting and Section 5 of the Voting right Act
  3. The 99ers and unemployment extensions (H.R. 589)
  4. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
  5. NIH funding, health care disparities

http://www.crewof42.com/?p=5581

Important Contact Information for this weeks meeting with the President! Please contact President Obama, as well as your Rep., the CBC and the Ways & Means Committee!

http://www.unemployed-friends2.org/t1550-congressional-contact-information-support-for-hr-589

http://www.unemployed-friends2.org/t1721-important-house-of-representatives-database-contact-sheet-for-hr-589

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

BARBARA LEE: SPEAKER BOEHNER AND LEADER CANTOR SHOULD PREVENT “CRUEL” BILL TO GUT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FROM REACHING THE HOUSE FLOOR

“Chairman Camp’s bill to gut unemployment benefits for millions of jobless workers is just the latest Republican salvo in their war on our nation’s unemployed. It is cruel for Ways and Means Committee Republicans to further penalize unemployed workers across the country as we face an economy where there are more than 4 unemployed workers for every available job. Instead of moving on the bill that Rep. Scott and I introduced to extend aid for unemployed workers who have exhausted their benefits, Republicans want to go backwards and cut existing unemployment benefits.

“I sincerely hope that Speaker Boehner and Leader Cantor will join me in rejecting this bill and do everything in their power to see that this assault on unemployed workers never reaches the House floor.”

-End Statement-

For Immediate Release

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The American 99ers Union Says “No” to HR 1745

On Thursday, May 05, 2011 House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, along with Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Geoff Davis and Human Resources Subcommittee member Rick Berg, introduced the Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits and Services (JOBS) Act of 2011 (HR 1745). On Wednesday, May 10, 2011 in a party-line vote, a congressional panel approved this Republican bill.

It took ONLY five days to approve this Republican drafted bill, while the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011 (HR 589) drafted by Democratic Representatives Barbara Lee and Bobby Scott, introduced on Wednesday, February 09, 2011 STILL languishes in the House Ways and Means Committee.

Judi58 wrote:I thought Obama was in Texas today??? But what do I know I just heard a news report last night...

exhaustedandtired/1208 wrote:INTERESTING TO SEE IF THEY EVEN MEET. WE"ll know soon!

Sick & Tired wrote:I just read that the CBC was planning on making comments right after the meeting...anyone see anything?

http://theloop21.com/news/president-obama-meeting-with-the-cbc-again

exhaustedandtired/1208 wrote:Did we get dumped... Whoop's duped???