Senate Proceeding 02-25-10 on Feb 25th, 2010 :: 5:19:55 to 5:20:50
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Claire McCaskill: mr. durbin: i would say to the senator from missouri that for many people there's almost no plieplace to turn. there's something called township assistance in my hometown. this is a fraction. amount of money which you receive from unemployment. it will barely provide money for food thor these people. ms

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Speech By: Claire McCaskill

5:19:58 to 5:20:18( Edit History Discussion )

Claire McCaskill: ms.ccaskill: assuming that it gets to the point that they're at wit's end, then it is food stamps, right? mr. durbin: right. ms. mccaskill: there is other governmental assistance that will be rabel to them. maybe they will lose their homes, h shelters. what i'm trying to get at, there is a cost to this. it isn't like all of a sudden the government isn't going to

5:20:19 to 5:20:39( Edit History Discussion )

Claire McCaskill: have any cost if these people quit getting unemp insurance. they lose their health insurance, it's not like they're not going to get treated in the emergency room if they get hit by a car on monday. we're going to take care of them in an emergency p. we're all going to pay for it. this is wrong.

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Claire McCaskill: and i hope that you stick around and renew this motion for a while. and i hope some of us stick around and help, because the american people need to how out of touch this place has gotten.