Unemployment benefits were extended until the end of 2012 - but not without adding insult to injury.

Congress passed the extension as part of a larger payroll tax cut deal, but included in the legislation Republican-led measures to cut the duration of benefits by 26 weeks and drug test the unemployed.

The GOP's ruthless attack on people - jobless through no fault of their own - has got to end. Tell Congress to restore the maximum weeks of unemployment benefits and repeal the newly-passed provisions to drug test the unemployed today!