Biden Blasts Bunning's Blocking Benefits

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WASHINGTON—Vice President Joe Biden said he's disappointed that a Republican lawmaker is keeping the Senate from voting on an extension of unemployment insurance.

"If he succeeds, one million people nationwide will be thrown off the unemployment rolls, one million people will be thrown into nothing but what I would call despair," Mr. Biden said Friday.

In a rare debate that lasted more than four hours late Thursday, Sen. Jim Bunning (R., Ky.) blocked several attempts by Democratic lawmakers to temporarily extend federal jobless benefits and health insurance subsidies. If the Senate doesn't act, the extension will expire on Sunday.

Mr. Bunning wants Congress to offset the $10 billion cost of the benefit extension by using unallocated funds from last year's $787 billion economic stimulus plan.

The Senate's assistant majority leader, Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), tried to pass the extensions on Friday morning, but Mr. Bunning again objected.

Mr. Biden criticized "the recalcitrance of a single senator," warning that "if we don't succeed in overcoming that objection, there's going to be immediate, immediate hurt on a lot of people."


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1. bigtree Boosts Biden's Bunning Blast

But Bunning's Blockheaded Bias Besets Benefits Bill, Bit By Bit...

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2. This is the repub party orchestrating this.

They are using Bunning as the lighting rod. Everyone knows he is goofy so he makes the perfect foil. He is not going to run again so he has nothing to protect and can keep other repub senators from any bad press (if bad press is really possible for a repub).

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3. Bombard Bunning

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4. bravo

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