Roll Call House Extends Unemployment Benefits From: Human Events | Date: February 16, 2004| Author: Anonymous | Copyright Human Events Publishing, Inc. Feb 16, 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

On Feb. 4, 2004, by a vote of 227 to 179, the House, in its first substantive action since returning from the lengthy Christmas recess, voted in favor of an amendment to the Community Services Block Grant Act of 2003 (H.R. 3030) to authorize still more money for unemployment benefits, which have been repeatedly extended since 2001.

In fact, the amendment had nothing to do with the bill in question. Nonetheless, Democrats saw it as a political opportunity to inveigh against President Bu...