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March 3, 2010

Senate Extends Jobless Benefit After Bunning Drops Filibuster
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On Capitol Hill, the Senate has passed a $10 billion spending bill
extending unemployment benefits for millions of Americans. The bill was
approved after Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky agreed to end
a five-day filibuster to prevent its passage. Bunning’s opposition had
forced around 2,000 federal employees into furloughs and delayed several
dozen highway projects. Earlier in the day, Bunning defended his
campaign against the bill.

Sen. Jim Bunning: “We want a country that my forty grandchildren have
the same abilities that I did growing up. We want a country that don’t
owe everybody in the world for our existence. I don’t—and the question
I’ve been asked mostly is, ‘Why now?’ Well, why not now?”



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