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Joe votes for unemployment compensation extension
Written by on February 05, 2010, 02:02 PM
A letter to the editor in the February 2 Intelligencer-Journal/Lancaster New Era falsely claimed that Congressman Pitts voted against an emergency extension of unemployment compensation insurance. The newspaper ran a correction on February 4.
It said:
“CORRECTIONS/ CLARIFICATIONS A letter to the editor in Tuesday's edition stated U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts voted against extending unemployment benefits. Pitts voted against an earlier bill but supported the extension on final passage. The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era wants to correct substantive errors of fact.”
The truth is, Joe voted against an early version of the bill because it simultaneously raised taxes on job-creators, making it at least marginally harder to actually solve the unemployment problem. The bill then went to the Senate. Joe led a group of ten House members in urging the Senate to pay for the bill using stimulus money instead. While they didn’t take that advice, the Senate did improve the bill by adding other job-creating measures Joe had been calling for, and Joe then voted for the Senate version on final passage. This was the second extension of unemployment compensation benefits Joe voted for.
It said:
“CORRECTIONS/ CLARIFICATIONS A letter to the editor in Tuesday's edition stated U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts voted against extending unemployment benefits. Pitts voted against an earlier bill but supported the extension on final passage. The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era wants to correct substantive errors of fact.”
The truth is, Joe voted against an early version of the bill because it simultaneously raised taxes on job-creators, making it at least marginally harder to actually solve the unemployment problem. The bill then went to the Senate. Joe led a group of ten House members in urging the Senate to pay for the bill using stimulus money instead. While they didn’t take that advice, the Senate did improve the bill by adding other job-creating measures Joe had been calling for, and Joe then voted for the Senate version on final passage. This was the second extension of unemployment compensation benefits Joe voted for.
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