GOP's Bunning relents, OKs action on jobless bill (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Tue, 03/02/2010 - 6:38pm

Sen.<br /><br />Jim Bunning, R-Ky. heads for the weekly caucus lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2010.<br /><br />Bunning has again blocked the U.S. Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - A Republican that had been stubbornly blocking a stopgap measure to extend help for the jobless relented on Tuesday under withering assaults from Democrats and dwindling support within his own party.




 

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