Rep. Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton, debating against HB 109 on extended unemployment benefits, said, "My problem isn't with the hand out or the hand up. My problem is with the length of time. ... How long are we going to extend it out? It's kind of like a diseased limb now, we're dragging it out and dragging it out. Isn't perhaps the cleaner cut, the more merciful cut, instead of keep dragging it on? Because it doesn't sound like there's ever going to be an end to it. ... I understand there's people on the verge of losing their house and things. But we have to stop it sometime. ... When is it ever going to end?"

Rep. Wendy Jaquet, D-Ketchum, told the House, "We have people coming to our food bank for the first time ever, and still coming because they don't have jobs. .. .The right thing to do is to vote for this bill. .. We really need to do this for the people that we represent."