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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.
If I am going to try to trade 100,000 shares of IBM, and I am going to put it on somebody's trading block or some institution has a trading block, I will not get the best price for that 100,000 shares if I am the seller unless I break it…
Historically, the way we have tried to make our markets safer and fairer is by increasing transparency and access, and I think that it has worked.
So when someone specifically bilks $50 billion out of the market, it doesn't surprise anybody who sits up here.
my biggest problem is singling out individual States that will be so disadvantaged--Utah, Kentucky, South Dakota, and many others--if in fact the Waxman-Markey bill is passed as presently constructed.
In the meantime, the dollar is worth 74 cents and our economy is not turning the corner, no matter what the stock market says.
We can lead, but we need followers, and we need a global agreement on carbon emissions if we're going to be successful.
Instead of expanding government welfare and taxing energy consumers, Congress should focus on providing pro growth policies.
Ultimately, this will decide who will bear the greatest costs of paying for this bill.
Kentucky families will have to pay more than their fair share under this bill.
Do you agree that this puts high carbon intense States, like my home State of Kentucky, at a severe disadvantage?
You could just do a carbon tax and that would hit everybody in every State equally, I would hope.
We happen in Kentucky to think it's not the right number, and I can tell you people from Wyoming and my good friend from South Dakota and Illinois and Indiana and Ohio think that that's the wrong number.