2 years of funding only. Opens up to a larger pool.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090222/...us_republicans

http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/...ll01-15-09.pdf

So point me to the "strings"

Keep looking you will find it. I found it after a few minutes. Your original source links are there.

If you found it, show me the strings...or at least give me a page number.

Or perhaps you cant find the actual language in the bill that attaches any "strings" on the states accepting the funding.

Because there are no strings?

Here's ya damn strings!

:violin:

That help you any?

;)

Cool.....musical entertainment during intermission!

Extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation. Through December 31, 2009, the bill continues the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which provides up to 33 weeks of extended unemployment benefits to workers exhausting their regular benefits. This provision is estimated to cost $26.96 billion.

Increase in Unemployment Compensation Benefits. The bill increases unemployment weekly benefits by an additional $25 through 2009. This provision is estimated to cost $8.8 billion

No strings.

What happens after 2009?

The states return to the current unemployment formulas.

If the need remains as great as it is today, Obama and Congress can extend it again...either nationally or a state-by-state basis as needed.

In the same manner that Bush and Jindal did in '05 for Louisiana when he was in Congress.

Still, no strings.

You should see us in bed... :D

:girlband: :whip:

no thanks - ewwww I think I just threw up a little in my mouth

Sugar, I agree with many things you have said, but I call bullshit on this statement. Yes, pharma is a greedy lot of backstabbing mofos, but I sincerely doubt cancer will be "cured" in our lifetimes, or possibly forever. Cancer is the end-state of nuclear breakdown; as long as DNA is damageable, life will die of something, and that 'something' is cancer. (Assuming we gain the technology/understanding to fix everything else!)

Good news, Merc.

I found the "strings" this morning....it required quite a stretch of the provision, along with the most limited thinking by those Republican governors on how to make it work.

But then I would never accuse Republicans of being broad-minded in their thinking if they can find an ideological reason not to.

Please share. I got too tired last night to keep looking.
I am curious if this is the same issue I was talking about in another thread. The one where the states would be on the hook to continue funding certain things after the stimulus money was exhausted.

Guess it was just BS since no one else saw, heard or seems to care.