[Cboldt]

-- I don't know exactly if Bunning is holding out against unpaid extensions or first time benefits --

He's objecting to the most recent in a long series of extensions.

[Persevero]

“He’s objecting to the most recent in a long series of extensions.”

I don’t mean to sound cavalier, but I’d back him on this, then. I am afraid subsidizing unemployment creates more of it. If premiums were paid, but the benefits were also all paid, I don’t think there is a moral argument to just legislating more and more benefits.