WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Jon Husted issued the following press release:
Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) today introduced the Clawing back Lapsed Obligations from State Emergency programs (CLOSE) Act. This bill would cancel the unspent tax dollars assigned during the COVID-19 pandemic for emergency unemployment payments and terminate the program.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is an original co-sponsor of the bill. Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) introduced the companion bill to the CLOSE Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.
"Ohio's private sector completely recovered all the jobs that were lost during the COVID-19 pandemic in just two years, and jobs have only continued to gr...