RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Republican-led Legislature plans to revisit last year's bitter stalemate with Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue that led to more than 47,000 unemployed people being cut off from jobless benefits for months.
Lawmakers last month introduced legislation that scolds Perdue for unilaterally ordering the payments to resume, ending the seven-week partisan conflict. But the new legislation would simultaneously accept the fact that the money started flowing under a step GOP lawmakers consider illegal, and declare it legal after the fact.
"She just didn't have the authority, but she did it. And so now we will try to say, OK, you did it, and we're going to say it was OK, but don't do it again. You don't have the authority under executive orders to do that," said Rep. Julia Howard, R-Davie. Davie co-chaired a panel studying North Carolina's overburdened unemployment insurance system.
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