Reports suggest that an unemployment benefits extension could be added to an emergency spending bill. The extension was cut off last December, and Republicans had predicted that the unemployment rate will go down as those who've been without work for a long time will be forced to find something because their benefits will have ceased. To prove the rates, the Labor Department has announced that the unemployment rate is now at 6.1 percent, the lowest rate recorded since the recession began in the September of 2008.

"The debate on that extension is over, and the conservatives were right," writes Charles Krauthammer, the Republican Columnist.

The Republican perspective was based on the idea that unemployed people become lazy when they receive unemployment benefits, and ending those benefits acts as a kick in the pants to get them back to work.

With the issue now introduced in the Senate and in the House, President Obama is facing criticism from some for not being engaged during the legislation process. Mr. Heller says that a simple phone call from the President would go a long way to create action in the House.

The Republican Senator Dean Heller and Democratic Senator Jack Reed are working together to push back the emergency unemployment compensation benefits after they expired last December.

Kevin McCarthy, the newly elected Majority Leader, has continued John Boehner's claim; he says that the Bill will require unspecified job creation measures to pass. The EUC new version makes some attempts to help at job creation, but more politicians are convinced that more measures are needed:

"We are losing some of our enthusiasm when the Republicans simply, other than Dean Heller, just turn a blind eye to these people who are suffering," says Reid, a Democrat from Nevada.