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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - March 4, 2010
Senate Votes to Revive Programs After Bunning Relents
by: Halimah Abdullah and David Lightman
McClatchy Newspapers
Washington - By a vote of 78 to 19, the Senate Tuesday
night passed funding to revive government programs that
aid jobless people, highway projects and other initiatives
that had shut down for nearly 48 hours because of Sen. Jim
Bunning's increasingly unpopular one-man stand against the
measure.
The deadlock ended Tuesday when the Kentucky Republican
relented, as he faced growing pressure not only from angry
constituents but also from Senate colleagues from both
parties.
The House of Representatives passed the measure last week,
and once signed by President Barack Obama, $10 billion can
be spent to keep most of the programs operating for about
a month.
Bunning wanted the provisions paid for, but other senators
said these were emergency measures and didn't need to be
offset.
The pressure on Bunning steadily grew. On Tuesday, the
Senate spent most of the day debating the measure ? with
most senators, including some from his own party, pleading
for him to drop his objection.
Tuesday evening, he did.
"I hope Senate Democrats tonight vote for their own pay-
fors and show Americans that they are committed to fiscal
discipline," Bunning said. "I will be watching them close-
ly and checking off the hypocrites one by one."
One of Tuesday night's procedural votes focused on Bunn-
ing's amendment to offset the $10 billion price tag of the
Democrat-backed 30-day-extension of funding for jobless
benefits and other government initiatives. That effort
failed.
Later this week, there will be two additional votes on his
proposals to offset the costs of a longer-term benefits
bill.
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Earlier, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham
of South Carolina, along with other Republicans, joined
Democrats in publicly urging Bunning to end his objection,
which had resulted in nearly 2,000 Department of Transport-
ation employees being furloughed without pay Monday and
which affects jobless benefits for thousands of unemployed
workers, rural television customers, doctors receiving
Medicare payments and others.
Bunning stressed that he supports the programs and
criticized Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and
other Democrats for not sticking to recently passed "pay-
go" provisions, which require paying for many new programs
with readily available funds rather than additional borrow-
ing.
Reid countered that Bunning was scarcely concerned about
debt during the Bush administration.
"He wasn't too worried about this during the eight years
of the Bush administration, when two wars were unpaid for;
all these tax cuts, these 2.5 trillion of dollars," Reid
said.
The White House offered a forceful, if exasperated,
response.
"This is an emergency situation. This is a situation where,
as I said, hundreds of thousands of people are left in the
lurch as a result of what happened in our economy," White
House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. "The Senate has
even offered to have a vote on what Senator Bunning wants
to do, and the person that objected was Senator Bunning.
"I don't know how you negotiate with the irrational. I
don't know how you prevent one person from deciding that
they hold in the palm of their hand the livelihood of
hundreds of thousands that have lost their jobs and as a
result have lost their health care. What it's simply going
to mean is... more people are simply going to need help.
It's an argument that I and others fail to understand."
Among the provisions that expired Sunday at midnight are
the flood insurance program, Small Business Administration
loans, a change in Medicare payments to doctors, some
transportation funding and, most prominently, help for the
unemployed.
Most people who already are getting extra jobless benefits
are unlikely to be affected. Those who will feel the impact
could include people who've exhausted their 26 weeks of
state benefits and qualify for more aid under federal guide-
lines.
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Anyone laid off after March 1 no longer was able to get
federal help to pay health insurance premiums; the program
pays 65 percent of the cost for certain workers.
Letting the highway program lapse could have meant an
estimated 90,000 jobs lost.
A number of protests in support of and against Bunning's
actions took place Tuesday in his home state, where 14,000
Kentuckians would have lost federal jobless benefits this
month if Congress hadn't extended them, according to the
National Employment Law Project.
Bunning and his fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell, the
Senate Minority Leader, both voted against the funding
extension Tuesday night.
Bunning's often had a contentious relationship with the
Republican leadership, especially McConnell.
Bunning isn't running for a third term, and his decision
a year ago not to seek re-election brought to a close a
months-long saga that had pitted the 78-year-old Hall of
Fame pitcher against those who urged him to step aside for
the good of the party.
McConnell had stopped short of publicly wading into the
fray. However, during a news conference Tuesday, he
indicated that the party was close to resolving the matter.
"We're in the process of working on that now," McConnell
said.
(Margaret Talev contributed to this article.)
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