Voting Record for Warner of Virginia-VA Voting Record on Legislation that Involves Welfare and Poverty
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Mark Warner U.S. Senate: Senator DemocraticNext Election Year: 2014
Education: JD, Harvard Law School, 1980
BA, George Washington University, 1977
Profession: Managing Director, Columbia Capital Corporation, 1989-2002
Co-Founder, Nextel Communications
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Voting Record on Legislation Involving Welfare and Poverty
(2010) HR 4213 Unemployment Benefits Extension
Outcome: Concurrence Vote Passed (59/39)
Summary: -Requires states to determine whether an individual is eligible for emergency unemployment compensation or regular compensation if the individual meets the following criteria (Sec. 3):
-Has been eligible for emergency unemployment compensation;
-The benefit year for which the individual was eligible for emergency unemployment compensation has expired;
-Has remaining entitlement to emergency unemployment compensation with respect to that benefit year; and
-Would qualify for a new benefit year in which the weekly benefit amount of regular compensation is at least either $100 or 25 percent less than the weekly benefit in the aforementioned previous benefit year.
-Prohibits states from reducing the average weekly benefit amount of regular compensation payable during the period of the agreement occurring on or after June 2, 1010 to an amount that is less than the average weekly benefit amount of regular compensation which would otherwise have been payable during such period, as in effect on June 2, 2010, in order to ensure eligibility for emergency unemployment compensation (Sec. 4).
-Establishes emergency designations for sections 2 and 3 of this Act, related to extending unemployment benefits, for the purposes of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (Sec. 5).
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(2010) HR 4213 Unemployment Benefits Extension
Outcome: Cloture Invoked (60/40)
Summary: -Requires states to determine whether an individual is eligible for emergency unemployment compensation or regular compensation if the individual meets the following criteria (Sec. 3):
-Has been eligible for emergency unemployment compensation;
-The benefit year for which the individual was eligible for emergency unemployment compensation has expired;
-Has remaining entitlement to emergency unemployment compensation with respect to that benefit year; and
-Would qualify for a new benefit year in which the weekly benefit amount of regular compensation is at least either $100 or 25 percent less than the weekly benefit in the aforementioned previous benefit year.
-Prohibits states from reducing the average weekly benefit amount of regular compensation payable during the period of the agreement occurring on or after June 2, 1010 to an amount that is less than the average weekly benefit amount of regular compensation which would otherwise have been payable during such period, as in effect on June 2, 2010, in order to ensure eligibility for emergency unemployment compensation (Sec. 4).
-Establishes emergency designations for sections 2 and 3 of this Act, related to extending unemployment benefits, for the purposes of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (Sec. 5).
