ms. duckworth: duck mr. speaker, we need congress to extend unemployment insurance now. mary has 16 years of experience in human resources, with seven of those as a manager. but yet she has been unemployed now for three years. but it's not for lack of trying. she sent out more than 500 resumes and gone through interview after interview after interview. with no success. she worries about losing her house and how she'll support herself in retirement. you see, she recently turned 60 and she knows how tough it can be to find work at her age. but that doesn't stop mary from looking for jobs for hours every day. it does not stop her from spending hours every week volunteering at her local church because she cares so much about her community. mary is not giving up and we shouldn't give up on her either. many americans like her want to find work and simply can't. punishing them by taking away unemployment benefits is a terrible mistake. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. duckworth: duck let's put our partisanship aside and extends unemployment insura

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ms. duckworth is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to all the witnesses for being there today to share your thoughts. over the past couple of weeks we've been debating whether not we can afford to spend unemployment insurance for a lifeline for millions of americans and in my home district of illinois, thousands of families were talked about last year, cuts to the food stamp program. yet at the same time in this committee we saw time and again the ways that happens in government. it's really infuriating to me to think that i have kids in my district who are going hungry and getters $909 for it of unused stryker parts sitting in a warehouse at the military paid for that couldn't use and continued to purchase but i'd like to sort of talk more about the dod and its process. this past year, my first year in congress, two things that happened that really sort of crystallized in my mind the waste that happens in dod, especially under the defense of logistics agency. one was a hearing in this very committee on the supremes would co

ms. duckworth: mr. speaker, 10 years ago my national guard aviation battalion was deployed to operation iraqi freedom. we performed missions ranging from forward refueling point operations to air assaults all across the battlefield in iraq. we were so effective that the multinational forces headquarters assigned us to help active duty aviation units to fly their missions as well as our own. yet when we first reported to core nate these missions, -- coronate these missions, our counterparts said, well, here comes the j.v. team. despite this less than well -- less than friendly welcome, my guard unit seamlessly integrated and carried out not only our own but their active flight missions as well. in the process we gained trust and mutual appreciation and respect. we've come so far as a nation and as a military. for 12 years our guard and reserve units have fought side by side with our active duty counterparts in combat zones all over the world. this nation spent precious blood, sweat and treasure to build

ms. duckworth: i thank the gentlelady. mr. speaker, lynn richards of elgin, illinois, a town in illinois that is well known for manufacturing everything from elgin watches all the way to the elgin street sweeper still in use today, lynn richards of elgin, illinois, needs her unemployment insurance extended. in april she lost her manufacturing job of three year. she and her husband kept their family afloat with the help of unemployment insurance. and now, 10 months later, she's pregnant with her second child. as she said recently, i've been working since i was 20 years old. i've never had this much trouble getting a job in my life. aye applied to 200 places and i've gotten less than 10 calls and just a couple of interviews. no employer wants to hire someone who is pregnant. lynn is just one of 80,000 illinoisans who have lost their unemployment insurance. i understand what these families are facing. when i was a teenager, my father a combat veteran, was in his mid 50's and had worked since he enlisted in the marine corps at 16.