Talk is Cheap, Senator Schumer

Ditto for Senator Stabenow. All this talk about adding more weeks to EUI, which should have happened a long time ago, will just disappear along with these politicians when they take yet ANOTHER break. The House takes off after Friday, with the Senate leaving the next week.

Then when these hardworking politicians return from six weeks of a working vacation, they will labor for two weeks before they take off again.

Must be nice.

Last year, Congress enacted several pieces of legislation that ultimately gave the unemployed in some states 99 weeks of benefits. With nearly 15 million unemployed competing for just three million jobs available, 99 weeks isn't enough time for some people to find work. Hundreds of thousands had already joined the ranks of the "99ers" in April. The Washington Post reported recently that the total had reached 1.4 million