Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008



Background
In September 2008, Rep. Jim McDermott introduced the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 (H.R. 6867), which would extend unemployment benefits for those whose benefits have expired and who have not found new work. He had introduced a similar piece of legislation, Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008 (H.R.5749), earlier in the 110th Congress, but it failed to pass.

Voting record
On October 3, 2008, the House passed the bill by a vote of 368-28.

 On November 20, 2008, the Senate passed a cloture motion to proceed by a vote of 89-6. The Senate then passed the bill with a voice vote, and President George W. Bush signed the bill into law the next day.

