Oct 20, 2009
Do you agree that this puts high carbon intense States, like my home State of Kentucky, at a severe disadvantage?
Jim Bunning
The Public Record
Jim Bunning is a former United States Senator from Kentucky, serving from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Bunning was known for his strong conservative positions and advocacy for fiscal responsibility. Before his political career, he was a professional baseball player, notably a pitcher in Major League Baseball, where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. Bunning's tenure in the Senate included a focus on issues such as energy policy and workers' compensation reform, often criticizing the Department of Energy's handling of compensation programs for workers.
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Oct 20, 2009
But China is growing at 8 to 10 percent and India is going to be the largest populated country in the world in 20 years.
Oct 20, 2009
Why is the United States going to punish their economy and 20 years from now we have got more pollutants in the air if we did nothing?
Oct 19, 2009
We feel that we--or we would not have made the proposal that has been made if we didn't feel that it were just absolutely necessary to keep the housing market from falling out of bed if we didn't continue this.
Oct 19, 2009
When will the housing market be able to stand on its own without Government subsidies?
Oct 19, 2009
In other words, the Government subsidies are going to have to continue until that time?
Oct 19, 2009
We should insist that the Federal Reserve does their job, and we can make it, our take the power away and give it to someone else.
Oct 19, 2009
So we are financing our own bailouts through GSEs through the taxpayer, period.