PRINTER'S NO. 173
No. 7 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY GRUITZA, DeWEESE, FEE, GEORGE, COLAIZZO, SURRA,
BLAUM, STETLER AND LaGROTTA, FEBRUARY 1, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, FEBRUARY 1, 1993
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, Economic hardship continues throughout this
5 Commonwealth due to unemployment of Pennsylvania's workers,
6 particularly in the steel sector; and
7 WHEREAS, Congress has the authority to enact legislation to
8 provide extending benefits to more than 168,000 Pennsylvanians
9 who have or are expected to exhaust their regular unemployment
10 compensation benefits and to millions of America's other
11 unemployed workers; therefore be it
12 RESOLVED, That, in order to insure the funding of extended
13 unemployment compensation benefits to millions of America's
14 unemployed workers, the House of Representatives of the
15 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania call upon the President and the
16 Congress to make funds available to help more than 168,000
17 Pennsylvanians who need extended unemployment compensation
18 benefits by declaring it "Emergency Legislation"; and be it
1 further
2 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
3 the President of the United States, the President pro tempore of
4 the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House
5 of Representatives and to each member of Congress from
6 Pennsylvania.
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