Date: September 17, 1991
Subject: Unemployment Benefits Extension
Description: Passage of the bill to permanently extend unemployment benefits to long-term unemployed workers for up to 20 additional weeks at an estimated cost of $6.3 billion through fiscal 1996. The bill automatically declares the benefits to be "emergency" spending and would not require a presidential declaration to be exempt from the spending requirements of the 1990 budget agreement. As such, it represents a further reduction of incentive for workers.
Result: Bill Passed, 283-125
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