Unemployment Benefits Will Be Extended

Courtesy Donklephant  Sun, 08/02/2009 - 3:07pm

The following story doesn’t say it explicitly, but when both Dems and Repubs are saying yes to this, you know it’s going to pass.

From Politico :

On ABC’s “This Week,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in response to a question by host George Stephanopoulos about extending benefits: “I think that is something that the administration and Congress are going to look very carefully at as we get closer to the end of this year.” [...]

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