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Senate Dems stand by Reid
That's not to say Reid is without Democratic detractors.
By Burgess Everett
Updated: 11/05/2014 11:28 PM EST
Senate Democrats lost their majority on Harry Reid's watch. But they're closing ranks around him anyway.
In interviews with more than a half-dozen surviving Democratic senators and several top aides on Wednesday, many agreed that Americans booted some of their colleagues at least in part because of the perception that Reid's Senate was getting little done. There were few pieces of landmark legislation to boast about, a dearth of votes on amendments and at times the chamber seemed little more than a clearinghouse for President Barack Obama's nominees.
But most Democrats have Reid's back, prepared to stand by him as minority leader through a tumultuous two years as he simultaneously runs for reelection in Nevada.
Vilified by Republicans' "Fire Reid campaign," the Nevada senator is being praised for taking arrows for the party — and seen as Democrats' best hope to counter the Republican agenda in 2015 that seems likely to provoke the same partisan fights that occurred under Democratic rule.
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"Harry's a fighter. Right now we need fighters in leadership positions because it doesn't look like Republicans are going to lay down and start an era of harmony," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
"He's been much criticized but underrated as a leader, and sometimes underappreciated," added Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.).
Rather than blaming Reid, many Democrats on Capitol Hill laid Tuesday's debacle at the feet of the White House, which one aide described as making "mistake after mistake after mistake" on managing crises from Obamacare's troubled rollout to combating the Islamic State.
Reid has no competition for the leader job after his party suffered debilitating losses to Republicans because Democrats were almost always on board with his tactics. Whether it was sheltering incumbents from charged amendment votes or refusing to put forward legislation that divided Democrats, few senators criticized Reid's leadership behind closed doors. Even fewer took their complaints public.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's case for himself has holes)
That's not to say Reid is without Democratic detractors. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) refused to say he would back Reid in an election race (a Democratic aide said the two spoke cordially on Wednesday morning). Manchin likened Reid's strategy of running the Senate to West Virginia University's football team trying to run out the clock on Texas Christian University on Saturday. WVU lost by 1 point; Democrats lost at least seven seats.
"We never get a shot at anything. I've been very direct with Harry about that: I think it's wrong," Manchin said in a telephone interview. "We didn't do anything."
Earlier this year a group of Democrats tried to devise a way to get more votes in the Senate. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) said one takeaway from Tuesday's election is that neither party should try any longer to skirt tough votes that might produce the political drama Reid sought to limit, such as on Obamacare and energy.
"For months, I have been working with some Republican and Democratic senators to try to get the Senate working again, and one piece of that means taking tough votes, including on amendments. Every senator should be able to go home and explain how they voted, not shy away from it," said Heitkamp, who is also waiting to assess next steps for the caucus until next week's organizational meetings.
Heitkamp and Manchin's reason was on full display on the campaign trail: Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska was bludgeoned repeatedly by Republicans for never getting a roll call vote on his amendments during his six years in the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) even brought up Begich's sparse amendment record during an otherwise triumphant Wednesday press conference, as did GOP No. 3 John Thune of South Dakota during an interview.
"There's no question that Reid's management of the Senate was a rallying cry," Thune said. "There wasn't a public event where our candidates didn't point out that Reid had completely shut the Senate down."
But Reid's defenders dismissed this as an inside-the-Beltway bit of rhetoric that few voters paid heed. And then they lined up behind Reid's minority leader bid.
After announcing he would again caucus with the Democrats next year and pull the party toward the center, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said in a telephone interview that he'd back Reid. So did Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), perhaps the most liberal member of the caucus.
"I am sympathetic to Harry's politics. I think Harry is a progressive. For his entire political life, he has stood for working people," Sanders said. "Running a caucus is a very difficult process, because you have to accommodate people like Joe Manchin who have conservative views … Harry has done a good job in maintaining unity."
Rather than scapegoat Reid, Democrats instead credited their opposition with making a two-part argument against Democratic senators. Republicans primarily campaigned against Democrats as supporting Obama in lock step. But they also repeatedly blamed Reid for the Senate's gridlock, and the public largely looked past Democrats' argument that Republicans were at least as much to blame.
"I was not satisfied by the way the Senate operated. But I put this in a broader context: We faced the most filibusters in history," said Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
In the closing stages of the midterm election, Republicans augmented their anti-Reid message by repeatedly blasting Democrats as supporting Obama more than 90 percent of the time. Most of those numbers were derived from procedural votes and nominations, but it didn't matter. It made for a great soundbite, and with few amendment votes to distance themselves from President Obama and Reid, Democrats like Begich, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kay Hagan of North Carolina struggled to demonstrate their independence.
"It was hard to explain why they were voting with the president 96 percent of the time," said Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
While Begich and Manchin grumbled publicly that Reid would not allow more votes on amendments, most of the caucus agreed with his strategy to limit controversial votes that might harm vulnerable incumbents.
In meetings the caucus would band together and agree to opening specific legislation to more amendments. Minutes later, Durbin would get word from one senator or another that a vote on a politically charged health care or energy amendment would spell political death for them.
"My experience has been that it's not unusual after having a chorus of that in the caucus meeting to have a phone call from one or two members saying, 'you're going to kill me,'" he said.
So for all his caucus' troubles, Reid will return to lead the Democrats for another term and no longer shoulder the blame for the Senate's management. Instead, the onus will be on Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his caucus to follow through on their pledge to open up the Senate floor in a way they claim Reid would not.
The stakes are high: Republicans face a difficult path toward retaining their majority in 2016, so it's not inconceivable that Reid gets his revenge at the ballot box. The GOP says it's ready.
"It'll be a vast change. I think there are members on both sides of the aisle who have never seen the Senate function as intended," said Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). "The American people are going to be surprised by how easygoing leader McConnell is."
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Played in all 36 games with 35 starts in his three seasons at Cal, recording 130 tackles (56 solo), 20½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, three fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles.
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2017: Started all 12 games, earning honorable mention All-Pac-12 recognition from the league's coaches...Was named Cal's Bear Backers MVP on defense...Registered 41 tackles (19 solo), a career-high 9½ tackles for a loss (tied for the team lead), 3½ sacks (tied his career high), two fumble recoveries, a forced fumble and three quarterback hurries...Had at least one tackle for a loss in six of the final seven games...Was one of only five players on the team and three on defense to start all 12 contests for the Golden Bears...At North Carolina (Sept. 2): Posted four tackles (all assisted), a tackle for a loss and a half-sack...Vs. Weber State (Sept. 9): Registered five tackles (four solo), a tackle for a loss and a fumble recovery...At Washington (Oct. 7): Recorded four tackles (three solo), a tackle for a loss and a forced fumble...Vs. Washington State (Oct. 13): Posted a career-best 1½ sacks and a career-high-tying two tackles for a loss...Vs. Arizona (Oct. 21): Registered a season-high six tackles (three solo), including a tackle for a loss...At Colorado (Oct. 28): Recorded three tackles (all solo) and a sack.
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2015: Appeared in 12 games with 11 starts in his first season at Cal, recording 35 tackles (16 solo), three tackles for a loss, a sack, a pass defensed and a fumble recovery...Ranked second on the defensive line in tackles...Vs. San Diego State (Sept. 12): Posted three tackles (one solo), including a tackle for a loss...Vs. Washington State (Oct. 3): Registered three tackles (one solo), a sack and a fumble recovery...At Utah (Oct. 10): Posted a season-best eight tackles (six solo)...Vs. Arizona State (Nov. 28): Recorded four tackles (one solo), including a shared tackle for a loss, and a pass defensed.
2014: Redshirted at Cal after transferring from Wake Forest.
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It also isn't something that Asuka can't overcome.
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The reason Vince McMahon isn't pushing Asuka right now is simply that her English isn't as good as the chairman would like it to be.
There is very often a fear among NXT fans that when their beloved Superstars are eventually called up to Raw and SmackDown Live that their stock will drop.
That the writers on the main roster will not know how to utilize them as well as those in charge of their fates in NXT. In all fairness, it is a legitimate fear to have.
Take Asuka, for example. The Empress Of Tomorrow spent two years in NXT. During that time, not only did she become NXT Women's Champion but she didn't lose a single match.
In fairness to WWE, that undefeated streak continued all the way up until WrestleMania 34. Asuka went one on one with Charlotte Flair and it was there, on the grandest stage of them all, that she suffered her first ever loss in WWE.
Since then, things have not gone so well. Asuka still hasn't held a Women's Championship on either Raw or SmackDown Live and has had nothing significant to do since Wrestle Mania.
She even lost to Carmella after getting spooked by James Ellsworth simply because he was dressed in her clothes. The Japanese star has been appearing alongside Naomi recently, but apparently, Vince McMahon is not a fan.
According to Dave Scherer of PWInsider, it's Asuka's inability to speak good English that is holding her back in WWE. "If she spoke good English I think she would be getting more.
[Vince McMahon] wants you to be able to cut promos," Scherer said on PWInsider Elite. The writer believes that there is a lot for her in WWE, but until she can speak better English she is doomed to remain in the mid-card or off TV altogether.
If all of the above is indeed true, then it wouldn't be the first example of this we have ever heard. It also isn't something that Asuka can't overcome.
Rumors have been circulating recently that Mr. McMahon basically ignored Becky Lynch for two years because of her Irish accent. The Lass Kicker has overcome that obstacle and is now one of the boss's favorite Superstars.
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Undercoating the Imperial Stormtroopers
In the Star Wars Legion box you get fourteen Stormtroopers, eight (regular) Stormtroopers, four heavy weapons and two unit leaders.
After constructing the Imperial forces I stuck them to their bases, and landscaped them using Citadel Sand. I then gave all the models a white undercoat using Corax White spray.
Here are the four regular troopers.
The two troopers with heavy weapons.
Finally the two unit leaders.
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Basing the Imperial Stormtroopers
Stormtroopers were the infantry soldiers of the Galactic Empire. The members of the Imperial Army's Stormtrooper Corps served on the frontline as elite shock troops, and their loyalty to the Empire was absolute as a result of their training. The stormtrooper armor that they wore consisted of white plastoid plates over a black body glove, and their standard weapon was the E-11 blaster rifle.
After constructing the Imperial forces I stuck them to their bases. Like my Rebel Troopers I have been using Citadel Sand for the bases of my Star Wars Legion Imperial Stormtroopers.
Here are the four regular troopers. I have two each of these.
There are two troopers with heavy weapons. The kneeling Stormtrooper has the HH-12 rocket launcher. The other is armed with a DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle.
The unit leaders are armed with a blaster pistol.
The next stage will be a white undercoat. I did think about doing a black undercoat. Storm troopers appear to be wearing black with white armour plates. Giving the models a white undercoat doesn't stop me from painting them (all) black, but I think I will try and avoid that.
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Constructing the Imperial Stormtroopers
Here are the regular troopers.
All together there are eight model of four variants.
There are four troopers with heavy weapons. The kneeling Stormtrooper has the HH-12 rocket launcher. The other is armed with a DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle.
This kneeling Stormtrooper has the HH-12 rocket launcher.
This Stormtrooper has a DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle.
The models went together very easily.
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AUGUST \ JULY 2011
AUGUST 28, 2011 COME THEN, MAIDENS AND MEN!
In high school, I wrote a script for a proposed musical play called Follow Your Star. For more details, click the logo.
The musical numbers were, in general, not original. One of them was envisioned as an Act I ensemble for the whole chorus, something like this Scottish show-starter from Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon:
Come all to the square!
The market square!
The market fair!
Salted meat I'm sellin' there!
At the fair, laddie!
Ale for sale or barter there!
At the square, laddie!
Come ye from the hills!
Come ye from the mills!
Come ye in the glen,
Come ye bairn, come ye men.
Come ye from the loom!
Come from pail an' broom!
Hear ye ev'rywhere:
Don't ye ken? There's a fair
Down on MacConnachy Square!
Here's that song in an admirable performance by a high school — not ours, unfortunately. But "Down On MacConnachy Square" wasn't the song I stole.
My sprightly tune was borrowed from the printed music that my mother saved from her high school days. First published in 1917, it has music by Easthope Martin and words by Englishwoman Helen Taylor (who would also write "Bless This House" ten years later). You can listen here to a choral performance.
"Come to the Fair" evokes a picture of an earlier age, when "gay" was a synonym for "merry" and "love-making" meant little more than heavy flirting. And for me, it evokes memories of this time of year, when the carefree days of summer reached a happy conclusion with the Richwood Fair.
The sun is a-shining to welcome the day,
Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
The folks are all singing so merry and gay,
All the stalls on the green are as fine as can be,
With trinkets and tokens so pretty to see,
So it's come then,
Maidens and men,
To the fair in the pride of the morning.
So deck yourselves out in your finest array,
With a heigh-ho! come to the fair!
The fiddles are playing the tune that you know:
"Heigh-ho! come to the fair!"
The drums are all beating, away let us go,
There'll be racing and chasing from morning till night,
And round-abouts turning to left and to right,
So lock up your house, there'll be plenty of fun,
And it's heigh-ho! come to the fair!
For love-making too, if so be you've a mind,
For hearts that are happy are loving and kind,
If it's "Haste to the Wedding" the fiddles should play,
I warrant you'll dance to the end of the day;
Come then,
With a heigh-ho! come to the fair,
Come to the fair in the morning,
AUGUST 23, 2011 BOUND TO A SWING
The details are fuzzy. It was probably in the 1890s that my great-grandfather Richard Foster Thomas moved his family from Springfield, Tennessee, to Livermore, Kentucky. There he got a job in a flour mill. Upstairs there was an auditorium. In that auditorium a couple of decades later, an infamous shooting took place.
"We are not especially proud of the story," my uncle told me in 2002. Nevertheless, the incident inspired a play. I told about it in the article that is this month's "100 Moons" feature.
AUGUST 18, 2011 MAGICIAN SIGHTING
Last night, the mentalist I first televised in 1978 was back on TV — national TV this time — to test a few alleged psychics. Although a million dollars was at stake, none of the psychics proved they could actually do what they thought they could do. I've updated my article on Banachek.
AUGUST 17, 2011 USING IT IN A SENTENCE
When I was a lad in school, my teachers taught me — as an established fact — that in the English language, the longest word in the dictionary is a certain 28-letter tongue-twister that begins with the letter a.
Nowadays, there are some who wish to disestablish that piece of knowledge by citing counterexamples, such as the names of complex chemical compounds. However, I still cling to my antidisestablishmentarianism.
AUGUST 11, 2011 HAIL TO THE 'TATERS!
The National Football League's Washington Redskins will host the Pittsburgh Steelers in their first preseason game tomorrow night. In a blog last year, "Mr Nethead" noted that the Redskins are "one of the last few remaining professional sports teams with a racist name."
"There are many Redskin fans who say the name can't be changed because that would be breaking with tradition. Well, I guess they have a point. Racism has been a longstanding tradition in the United States. And let's face it, Native Americans have always been a pretty easy target. Isn't it a little ironic having a bunch of black guys playing for a team with a racist name, though?
"Anyway, in my spare time I went ahead and solved the whole controversy. The Redskins can stop being racist and they don't even need to change their name! All that is required is a simple logo change. ...And just imagine all the delicious potatoey snacks they could serve at the games!"
So I tried my hand at creating that new logo for the Spuds. (A few months ago, Duane Mathis of Parma, Ohio, made the same suggestion to columnist Norman Chad, whereupon the Couch Slouch paid him the usual $1.25. I get nothing for my design efforts.)
AUGUST 5 ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH ARIAL
I've already griped about how difficult is to distinguish a lower-case M from a lower-case RN in the Arial font.
m rn
Apparently the lower-case M can also be impersonated by a lower-case IN.
Whoever typed up the on-line menu for J's Deli in Rhode Island couldn't tell the difference, as we see here.
To whom should we address our complamts? Sen. John McCam, perhaps?
JULY 31, 2011 DEBUT ALBUM
As an amateur pianist, I recorded a live album way back in 1978. Of course, the studio was merely my apartment, the intended audience was only my mother and father, and the recording medium was 8-track tape!
Flawed though the result might be, the music does survive, and I'm now making it available to you on the Internet in a new article called Great Songs of Broadway. That was the name of the book of sheet music from which I was playing.
However, you are not my mother. You do not care to listen to the whole 45 minutes at one sitting. Therefore, the article so far includes a link only to the first six songs, the first 11¼ minutes. I'll let you know every six weeks or so when another quarter of this classic Lo-Fi recording becomes available.
JULY 27, 2011 THAT 1958 SITCOM
I've taken a borrowed melody that I wrote down 53 years ago, turned it into a short audio clip, and added it to this month's "100 Moons" flashback. It's the theme song for the one and only episode of the radio comedy The Bixbys.
JULY 22, 2011 KOBES
We in the sports television fraternity lost an old friend recently. Mike Kobik died unexpectedly on June 30 at the age of 54. At the time, he was in Maryland for a Golf Channel assignment.
Mike grew up in L.A., as he said. That would be lower Arnold, Pennsylvania. I first met him when I came to work at TCS, headquartered in the neighboring city of New Kensington, in the fall of 1980. When he said "Hi," it immediately seemed as though we'd known each other for years. He was a great guy to be around.
Mike appears in several places on this website. Some photos are from our days on the Penn State Football Show around 1985. Click here for that album. You can even hear audio of Mike directing a segment of a "Paterno" edit session.
One of my snapshots ended up in a video tribute that the Golf Channel aired last week. If you haven't seen it, it's on YouTube, here.
Also on my website: another photo of Mike shows up here. A couple of his ideas are here and here. Some of our travels are mentioned here and here. Some silliness is mentioned here and here. And I added some photos here.
In recent years I knew Mike mostly as one of the directors of Big East basketball telecasts at Pitt. We all are going to miss him.
JULY 17, 2011 AMEN, BROTHER!
"You don't have to convince us," someone said to a Catholic friend of mine. "We already agree with you. Don't waste your breath. You're preaching to the choir."
My friend was puzzled. "I'm doing what, now?"
It turns out that the phrase "preaching to the choir" is less than 40 years old, and I had to explain its meaning.
On reflection, I realize that the term might not mean much to a Catholic, or to anyone else who regularly attends a long-established church. Both the choir and the congregation — in fact all the people in the sanctuary — are already members. They essentially agree with their pastor's predictable homilies.
To understand the phrase, you have to imagine an old-fashioned revival meeting.
The evangelist has his choir behind him. In front of him is an audience that includes nonbelievers and backsliders.
The preacher should speak not to the choir but to this congregation of sinners. He's trying to convert them, to persuade them to change their ways and start coming to church. Maybe even join the choir.
Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960)
JULY 11, 2011 BACK IN BLACK
From one show to the next in the TV business, some documents remain mostly the same, with only minor updates. However, the person making the updates often forgets something. An error creeps in and is perpetuated for show after show.
Suppose our team played the Fairbanks Fantums last Saturday. Next week, we're going to play the Elk City Eskimeaux. Today, the TV producer calls up last Saturday's format on his computer and makes the necessary changes, but he fails to update some items. When he prints out the new format for the upcoming Eskimeaux game, it still claims we're supposed to interview the Fantums head coach.
My technique: select all the text in the most recent document.
Christmas this year will be Saturday, December 25, 2010.
Italicize it, or change its color to brown.
Then carefully consider each element. If it can be re-used in the new edition, change it back to normal text.
But if an item remains brown or italicized, that means it needs to be updated. Do so before changing its color.
Christmas this year will be Sunday, December 25, 2011.
SHOULD I OR SHOULDN'T I?
A mile from my apartment, these signs have economized by sharing a single post. However, they seem ambivalent about the propriety of my making a right turn.
I think what they're trying to tell me is this: Don't turn right into the parking lot exit that's 20 feet ahead, but if you're a trucker following the "brown" detour, do turn right at the intersection that's 250 feet ahead.
Anyway, that's the interpretation I'm going with. (But isn't a bent arrow like the one on top supposed to refer to a turn that's a little farther down the road? And isn't a straight arrow like the one on the bottom supposed to refer to an immediate turn? Oh, well.)
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California Lawmakers Slam Employment Agency For Slow Benefits Payouts
California lawmakers say the state department responsible for paying out unemployment claims is failing Californians by making them wait weeks or months to receive benefits
By Kathleen Ronayne	• Published July 31, 2020 • Updated on July 31, 2020 at 9:31 am
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California lawmakers accused the leader of the state's unemployment department of failing the public in a tense hearing Thursday that featured stories of people waiting weeks or months to receive their benefits after losing their jobs because of the pandemic.
More than 1.2 million claims, about a fifth of all applications, haven't been paid out, either because the applicants haven't taken the right steps or they are ineligible, said Sharon Hilliard, head of the Employment Development Department. It will take until September to process about 239,000 of those that are mostly ready to go but backlogged, she said.
"It's difficult to say this as someone who generally believes in government's ability to help, but EDD has been failing California," said Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu. "Our constituents are depleting their life savings, going into extreme debt, having trouble paying rent and putting food on the table."
The coronavirus pandemic caused millions of Californians to lose their jobs starting in March, and the state has paid out $55 billion, including federal dollars, across 9.3 million claims, Hilliard said. Applications skyrocketed by more than 3,000% from March to May compared to January and February, according to the agency.
The hearing came a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new "strike team" to improve the department. The agency has already spent millions contracting with outside vendors to improve its technology and provide more call center workers. By October, it plans to award a contract to completely redo its information technology system, a timeline lawmakers said wasn't nearly quick enough.
Chiu accused Hilliard of lying to the public about the unemployment data, another lawmaker said she had no faith in Hilliard or the agency, and members of the public called the state services "abominable" and suggested Hilliard be fired. Some who called in for public comment say they still haven't received any payment.
Hilliard defended the battered agency. She told lawmakers the agency has hired or redirected thousands of workers and plans to bring on more. She said common reasons payments are delayed is because the state needs more information to verify the applicant's identity or conduct a wage investigation.
"We remain laser focused on those claims that require additional action. Our staffers care deeply about the livelihood of our neighbors and our communities, which is why we continue to work round-the-clock in a committed effort to evolve our operations," Hilliard said.
A call center that can handle questions around specific claims has just 100 people working from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., she said. The rest of the calls go through a line open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. that can handle more basic calls. It takes on average four to six weeks for people to get a call back, Hilliard said.
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The agency is working to merge the call centers and train more workers to handle complex calls to eliminate the need for call backs, Hilliard said. But she could not give a timeline for when that would happen despite repeated questions from Democratic Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris. Other lawmakers said it was unacceptable that so few workers are able to answer questions about claims over the phone.
"All of these timelines just seem totally out of step with the urgency of the moment that we are in," Petrie-Norris said.
The department is experiencing vastly more claims than at the height of the Great Recession, when the most claims processed in a single month was around 115,000. During a single week in late March, the state processed more than 1 million claims, said Chas Alamo, a policy analyst at the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. The federal government sets a goal of 87% of new claims being paid out within three weeks; California is currently paying out 62% of claims within that time frame, Alamo said. That's lower than the 50-state average.
Things could get even more complicated if Congress extends supplemental federal unemployment benefits, which gave people up to $600 in an additional weekly payments but just expired. The new program could require more complex calculations to determine payment amounts, and preparing the state's system to handle it could take 12 to 20 weeks, Hilliard said.
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"I think that the level of outrage that you're hearing today would be nothing compared with the level of outrage if we were to tell the people of California it was going to take almost half a year to process their federal unemployment insurance supplement," said Republican Assemblyman Jay Obernolte.
The strike team Newsom created will have 45 days to produce a report on how to make the agency more digital and consumer friendly. The agency will also begin weekly outreach to applicants who need to send in more information or certify their claims, which much be done every two weeks.
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