The Chicago Tribune, 2 March 2010
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3 mars 2010
Andrew Taylor
"WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm.
"Kentucky Republican
Jim Bunning had been holding up action for days but conceded after pressure intensified with Monday's cutoff of road funding and extended unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless.
"Bunning wanted to force
Democrats to find ways to finance the bill so that it wouldn't add to the deficit, but his move sparked a political tempest that subjected
Republicans to withering media coverage and cost the party politically. Bunning's support among Republicans was dwindling, while Democrats used to being on the defensive over health care and the deficit seemed to relish a battle that could reinforce their argument that Republicans are bent on obstruction of
President Barack Obama's agenda at any cost."
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