KENNEDY ON HOUSE ECONOMIC STIMULUS AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to the announcement that an economic stimulus deal has been reached in the United States House of Representatives. "Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Boehner have taken an important first step. Working families should be assured that this agreement is not the final word. Families are in crisis, and it’s not enough just to help with their taxes. I intend to offer amendments in the Senate to strengthen this package--to provide unemployment insurance to workers looking for jobs, and to help families coping with high heating costs and skyrocketing food prices."
