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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.
I will only continue for 2 minutes. Why would you vote for a bill when you know it is not going to be honored? Why would you vote for a bill you knew was going to be violated in the first bill brought to the floor after you passed it? As…
we tried and we will continue trying. As many people who get up and propose that UC, I will be there, whenever it is. I want it passed as badly as the Senator from Illinois does because I also have people in Kentucky who have the same…
it is amazing to me the Senator from Illinois has what we call a convenient memory. Just last week there was a bipartisan bill proposed by Senator Baucus and Senator Grassley that would have covered the extension of unemployment benefits…
I support extending unemployment benefits, COBRA benefits, flood insurance, the highway bill fix, the doc fix, small business loans, distant network television for satellite viewers. If we can't find $10 billion to pay for something we all…
Jim Bunning, the senator who blocked an emergency bill extending jobless benefits, Medicare funding, health insurance and highway building, has backed down.
We must get our debt problems under control, and there is no better time thank now. That is why I have been down here demanding that this bill be paid for. I support the programs in the bill we are discussing. And, if the extension of…
I hope Senate Democrats tonight vote for their own pay-fors and show Americans that they are committed to fiscal discipline. I will be watching them closely and checking off the hypocrites one-by-one.
If we cannot pay for a bill that all 100 senators support, how can we tell the American people with a straight face that we will ever pay for anything? That is what senators say they want and that is what the American people want.
We must get our debt problems under control and there is no better time than now. That is why I've been down here demanding that this bill be paid for. I support the programs in the bill we are discussing and if the extension of those…
If we can't find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of this U.S. Senate.
Why did he alone stop a bill that expired today and lost hundreds of thousands their jobless benefits and health insurance?
I want to assure the people that have -- that have watched this thing until quarter to 12:00 and I have missed the Kentucky/South Carolina game that started at 9:00. And it's the only redeeming chance we had to beat South Carolina.