PRINTER'S NO. 2467
No. 188 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, DeLUCA, SALOOM, STUBAN, STURLA, GEORGE,
MIHALICH, PETRARCA, DeWEESE, VAN HORNE, KENNEY, GAMBLE,
LINTON, VEON, STABACK, STEIGHNER, SCRIMENTI, ROBINSON, CARN,
HARPER, PISTELLA, KUKOVICH, WAMBACH, JAMES, SURRA, FREEMAN,
BROUJOS, CALTAGIRONE, COLAIZZO, LAUGHLIN, CAPPABIANCA,
KAISER, TANGRETTI, ITKIN, BISHOP, JOSEPHS, TIGUE, STEELMAN,
PESCI, MUNDY, LEVDANSKY, FAJT, KOSINSKI, CORRIGAN, DURHAM,
HUGHES, McHALE, BATTISTO, WOZNIAK, RUDY, R. C. WRIGHT AND
MELIO, OCTOBER 7, 1991
ADOPTED, OCTOBER 7, 1991
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing the President and the Congress of the United
2 States to extend benefits to Americans who have or will have
3 exhausted their current unemployment benefits.
4 WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States has passed, by a
5 veto proof margin, H.R.3201, the "Emergency Unemployment
6 Compensation Act of 1991," which would provide extended benefits
7 for unemployed persons who exhaust their benefits between April
8 1, 1991, and July 4, 1992; and
9 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry
10 has estimated that H.R.3201 would provide an additional seven
11 weeks of emergency unemployment benefits to approximately
12 168,000 Pennsylvania workers over the life of the program; and
13 WHEREAS, The Federal Extended Unemployment Compensation
14 Account currently has a balance of $8 billion which is adequate
15 to fund the $6.4 billion estimated cost of H.R.3201; and
1 WHEREAS, The President has signed H.R.3201 but refused to
2 release the funds, effectively nullifying the act; and
3 WHEREAS, Congress has once passed legislation in the form of
4 S.1722 to provide extending benefits to the 168,000
5 Pennsylvanians who have or are expected to exhaust their regular
6 unemployment compensation benefits and to millions of America's
7 other unemployed workers; therefore be it
8 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
9 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania call upon the President to sign
10 S.1722 and make the funds available to help the 168,000
11 Pennsylvanians who need the extended unemployment compensation
12 benefits by declaring it "Emergency Legislation"; and be it
13 further
14 RESOLVED, That, should the President use his veto on S.1722,
15 the House of Representatives call on Congress to override any
16 such veto in order to insure the funding of extended
17 unemployment compensation benefits to millions of America's
18 unemployed workers; and be it further
19 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
20 the President of the United States, the President pro tempore of
21 the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House
22 of Representatives and to each member of Congress from
23 Pennsylvania.
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