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Chambliss Skips Vote On Unemployment Benefits While Giving A Campaign Speech On Unemployment
Think Progress —
On Thursday, Georgia’s Department of Labor announced that the state’s unemployment levels rose to 7 percent in October, the highest in 16 years; approximately 43,093 unemployed Georgians are looking for work. That same day, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), who is locked in a tough run-off election battle with Democrat Jim Martin, gave a campaign speech on the state’s economic troubles:
It’s imperative that we continue down the road of putting liquidity, integrity and confidence back in the financial marketplace so that we can see the credit market free up and people having the ability ...
Chambliss Skips Vote On Unemployment Benefits While Giving A Campaign Speech On Unemployment
The Hollywood Liberal —
Chambliss Skips Vote On Unemployment Benefits While Giving A Campaign Speech On Unemployment On Thursday, Georgia’s Department of Labor announced that the state’s unemployment levels rose to 7 percent in October, the highest in 16 years; approximately 43,093 unemployed Georgians are looking for work. That same day, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), who is locked in a tough run-off election battle with Democrat Jim Martin, gave a campaign speech […] On Thursday, Georgia’s Department of Labor announced that the state’s unemployment levels rose to 7 percent in October, the highest in 16 years; approximately 43,093 unemployed Georgians are looking ...
The Road To 60-- And Unemployment Insurance
DownWithTyranny! —
How can we really know how Georgia's embattled reactionary senator, Saxby Chambliss, would have voted on the unemployment compensation extension bill Friday? With Georgia's unemployment level rising to 7%-- the highest since 1992-- Chambliss, who didn't bother going to Washington to vote, claims he would have voted for the extension. Georgia voters, who will decide between Chambliss' implied pledge to block all the reforms and all the change President Obama tries to enact, and Jim Martin's resounding pledge to help President Obama get the nation back on its feet after years and years of wrong-headed right-wing policies uniformly ...
