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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 19, 1991
Ssssortina snakes
in preparation for cataloguing, Rosalie Vaught, Lawrence junior, tags snake specimens at the department of herpetology in the Natural History Museum. The amphibian and reptile collection, which is the fourth largest in the United States, is used for research by students and faculty.
New bill may aid 30,000 Kansans
By Heather Anderson
Insurance benefits will increase
Residents of each state will receive either six, 13 or 20 weeks worth of extension benefits depending on the unemployment rate, according to the bill.
Kansan staff writer
More than 30,000 Kansans may be eligible to receive more unemployment insurance benefits thanks to a bill President Bush signed Friday.
Ketchum unemployed Kansas workers would receive 13 more weeks of benefits if they had exhausted their 26 weeks of payments after Feb. 28.
The department was pleased because Kansas residents would be able to receive the addition 13 weeks of benefits instead of just six, she said.
Ketchum said it was unusual that Kansas' unemployment rate was high enough that the state could qualify for 13 weeks of benefits.
The bill will provide $5.3 billion worth of extra benefits to more than 2.8 million U.S. citizens.
Kathy Ketchum, public information officer for Kansas Department of Human Resources, said many Kansans already had inquired about whether they would be eligible for the extended benefits.
good news to Democrats who claim the Bush administration isn't doing enough to protect families.
She said many of the 30,000 people who could be eligible for the extra benefits already might have found employment and would not apply for
Poll says U.S. citizens blame economic competitive problems on government
Linda DiVall, the Republican half of the polling team, said economic conditions were
Most of the 1,003 adults questioned in the extensive survey said they wanted the government to fix the nation's economic and competitive problems
Ketchum said she encouraged everyone to be patient with the process because of the large number of people being inquired about the extension.
Mike Pritchard, manager of the Kansas Job Service office in Lawrence, said eligible people would have to fill out necessary forms and schedule an appointment for an interview.
WASHINGTON — U.S. citizens overwhelmingly blame the government for the country's slipping ability to compete internationally and believe the worst is yet to come, so a bipartisan poll released yesterday
Pritchard said the Lawrence office had received a considerable number of calls yesterday, but he did not have exact figures.
He said he did not think that University students would be affected by the bill because people must be available to work full time and be actively looking for work to be eligible for the benefits.
Evaluation for the extended benefits will be on an individual basis, he said.
The Associated Press
A temporary telephone hot line for Kansas residents has been installed to handle the extra calls and questions of workers in unemployment insurance, she said.
"There was some apprehension that something would be tacked onto the bill that he would find disagreeable," Ketchum said.
She said she was not surprised that Bush signed the bill because he had previously stated he would.
the benefits.
1980 election.
"As an incumbent, you have to be to one's side," he said, referring to President Bush.
Topping a long list of concerns were the quality of U.S. education and the country's slide from No. 1 creditor nation to leading debtor nation.
Nearly one in four of those surveyed said the United States' ability to compete had gotten worse in the last few years. Almost three in four said the period of foreign competition lay ahead of that for government for competitive problems.
No one in the poll rated the U.S. economy as excellent, and more than half rated it not so good or poor.
"That was 60 days ago. They were nice numbers then," she said. "Republicans have to be very concerned about the state of the economy."
"People have a sense that it's a disi- tent world and we've just been damn good."
The September poll found U.S. citizens trusted Republicans more than Democrats to deal effectively with competitive problems by a 39-27 edge. But Divall said the advantage may already have vanished.
place," said Geoff Garin, DI'Vall's Democratic counterpart. "They see the government as part of the problem and need investment needs to be part of the solution."
Democrats call for statehood for Washington, D.C.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A parade of Democratic presidential candidates lined up yesterday in support of statehood for the nation's capital.
"The failure to grant statehood to the men and women of the District of Columbia undercuts America's greatest promise — that the power from the people and not the other way around," Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas said.
Also endorsing the statehood at a hearing of the House District of Columbia Committee were Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Bob Koberry of Nebraska, former Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Virginia Gov, L. Douglas Wilder.
Harkin told the committee it was unconscionable that residents of the District of Columbia were congressional voting representation.
"I don't see how any American could deny statehood and full voting representation to people who live in District of Columbia." Harkin said.
Harkin said President Bush was "willing to send district residents to risk their lives to restore self-determination to Kuwait, but then he and I will see that we still fight to deny these people the same political rights in the United States."
mittee that he supported granting the district full voting representation — two U.S. senators and a congressman — immediately.
But while endorsing the concept of statehood, he called for lawmakers to first settle the issue of whether a "State of New Columbia" would slap a commuter tax on Virginians to make up for federal funds the district likely would lose if granted statehood.
Wilder told the House D.C. com-
Kerrey and Tsongas submitted statements to the panel endorsing statehood.
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