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Defend America on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:51:09 PM
Bunning Accepts Deal Allowing Benefits Bill to Advance
By
John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
March 2, 2010, 6:39 p.m.
Under increasing pressure from Democrats and members of his own
party, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Tuesday night abandoned his one-man
filibuster of a one-month extension to unemployment benefits and other
programs.
In the end Bunning agreed to a deal allowing him one
vote on an amendment to pay for the bill’s $10 billion cost. That
proposal was offered by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last Thursday at the start of
his filibuster, but Bunning rejected it because he feared his amendment
would not pass.
Reid has also agreed to give Bunning two votes on
amendments to a larger, one-year extension bill that is currently under
consideration in the Senate.
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