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Jim Bunning Backs Rand Paul for His Senate Seat, Bucking GOP Establishment
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySen. Jim Bunning, the contrarian Republican senator and onetime flame-throwing major league pitcher, has gone against the GOP establishment in Kentucky and endorsed Senate hopeful Rand Paul, son of the 2008 presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul. Paul, an eye surgeon and anti-tax activist, has emerged as the favorite in the May 18 Republican primary against Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, the preferred pick of the state's Republican establishment to succeed Bunning, the Wall Street Journal reported. Grayson has been endorsed by former Vice President Dick Cheney. Bunning's impending ...
Lawmaker's Impasse Ends, Senate OKs Jobless Aid
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 2) -- 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 ...
Democrats Reach Deal with Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky to End Filibuster
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Democrats reached a deal with Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky late Tuesday to end his filibuster of a bill to temporarily extend unemployment benefits. In exchange for allowing the Senate to move forward, Bunning will get a vote on his proposal to offset the $10 billion cost of the bill. Bunning's amendment would end a tax credit awarded to a bio-fuels process, saving $24 billion -- more than enough to finance the jobless benefits. The Senate voted on both measures Tuesday night, with Bunning's amendment failing on a vote of 43 to 53, and the overall bill passing 78 to 19. The deal ...
Ben Bernanke: Economic Rock Star of the Year
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyMaking lists is fun. We like to read about the most Googled stories of the week, the most e-mailed topics of the moment, the best songs and greatest films of the century, the richest people in America, and the best-dressed women of the year. How many, however, flock to learn the names of the top Global Thinkers of the Year? Not a whole lot, I suspect. ...
Congressmen Push for More Time to Read Bills
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter hearing chants of "Read the bill!" at town hall meetings across America, members of both parties, on both sides of Capitol Hill, pushed efforts Wednesday to make legislation available to the public before Congress votes on it. On the House side, four Congressmen -- two Democrats and two Republicans -- circulated a letter urging their colleagues to support a floor vote to make bills available online 72 hours before a vote. Although the congressmen introduced a bill on the matter in June, it has never been scheduled for a vote by the House Democratic leadership. "Americans made it ...
Sen. Jim Bunning to Retire, Blames Fellow Republicans
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyKentucky Republican Jim Bunning announced today that he will retire from the Senate at the end of this term.In his written statement, Bunning sharply pointed to the lack of support from his fellow Republican senators as the single biggest reason for his decision not to seek re-election. "Over the past year, some of the leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate have done everything in their power to dry up my fundraising," Bunning said. "The simple fact is that I have not raised the funds necessary to run an effective campaign for the U.S. Senate. For this reason, I will not be a candidate ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley Files His Own Twitter Entries, Thank You Very Much
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyPoliticians have a complex relationship with the social networking fad-of-the-moment, Twitter.On the one hand you have the tech-savvy younger generation, who have used the microblogging service to do everything from launch a gubernatorial campaign (Gavin Newsom) to declare their heterosexuality (Charlie Crist).On the other hand, you have a bumbling older generation who either has no idea what Twitter is (Jim Bunning) or suddenly remembers that they invented the whole technology and enlists a staffer to "tweet" for them (John McCain).This week, Capitol Hill daily newspaper The Hill made an ...
Jim Bunning Blames Mitch McConnell for His Own Impending Defeat
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyAs Politics Daily's own David Stacey is reporting, Sen. Jim Bunning spent yesterday trashing his fellow Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, using derogatory terms he normally reserves for the news media.Bunning called McConnell "selfish" and blamed the minority leader not only for losing 15 GOP Senate seats over the past two elections but also for losing 4 additional seats in the 2010 election, which-- unless Bunning knows something that we don't-- hasn't happened yet.Quoth the sage of Cooperstown...Do you realize that under our dynamic leadership of our leader, we have gone from 55 and ...
Ranking the Senators in Terms of Partisanship
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyThe Hill, one of the two dailies on Capitol Hill, has released their rankings of U.S. Senators based on partisanship.And the results will shock you. Did you know, for instance, that Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is still alive? (Whatsmore, he's ranked the 5th most partisan Republican.)More shockers abound the deeper you delve. Ted Kennedy is ranked the most bipartisan Democrat, while Pat Leahy is ranked the least. (We didn't realize Dick Cheney got a vote.) Maine's two senators are ranked as the most bipartisan Republicans, while Jim Bunning is ranked the most partisan. (Although it seems to us ...
Poll Shows Kentuckians Prefer Their Senator Not Be a Senile Old Coot
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyBad news for any geriatric, senile, death-of-Supreme-Court-justice-predicting, Republican-Party-suing, Twitter-not-understanding, and just plain nutty old men who want to be elected Senator from Kentucky in 2010.The voters aren't behind you...A new survey released Wednesday paints a bleak 2010 picture for Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning (R), who was already considered the most vulnerable Senate incumbent up for re-election. The automated survey by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling gave the embattled Senator a 28 percent job approval rating with 54 percent disapproving. Only 38 percent of ...
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