WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats on Sunday lamented that Congress has stranded 2 million jobless Americans by failing to reauthorize long-term unemployment insurance before it lapsed on Saturday.
"An absolute travesty," Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) said. "Some of them on the other side are saying, 'We've got a scheduling issue, with trying to get back for New Year's' -- come on, what about these people?"
Larson, a member of the Democratic leadership team in the House of Representatives, blamed Republicans for holding up a solution to the "fiscal cliff" -- the moment at the end of the year when big tax hikes and spending cuts are scheduled to take effect.
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