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U.S. House Includes Extra Unemployment Benefits in Airline Package.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003
By Robert Dodge, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 9--WASHINGTON--The House of Representatives voted 265-150 Tuesday to extend jobless benefits for unemployed airline workers even though the White House urged Congress to drop such a provision from an airline aid package.
"To provide benefits for a specific industry would be unusual, unfair and potentially harmful to our national unemployment system, and the conferees are urged to drop this objectionable provision," White House budget director Mitch Daniels wrote Tuesday in a letter to Congress.
The House vote is not binding. But it seemed to indicate at least some portion of the $225 million in jobless benefits would remain in a $3 billion-plus airline...
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